#Yvaine's Portable Furniture

[doomspaniels]

YPF: Tristan, I gave you one, you finished it.

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: What, now he's trying to get treats from both of us?

YPF: I gave him a dental chew, but I believe he's now trying to indicate he'd like a carrot for dessert.

YPF: I SAID THE WORD.

TFaTB: Yes, you did.

YPF: I have my hands full, can you give him one?

TFaTB: Yes, I will pay your debts.

#tristan #cocker spaniel #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #dialogue #humor #carrots are serious business #dogblr #smart cookie #do not look directly into the eyes of the hypno-spaniel #we are suckers #suckers brave and true

[doomspaniels]

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: *munching a snack*

Tristan: *attempts hypno-spaniel eyes*

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: Sorry, Tristan, you can't have one of these. But I can *holds out hand*

TFaTB: *passes one to YPF*

Tristan:

#tristan #cocker spaniel #dialogue #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #do not look directly into the eyes of the hypno-spaniel #the betrayal #all the sads #(he got a piece) #TFaTB is easily manipulated by the sads #it wasn't too terrible for him #a twizzler #a very small piece #dogblr

[doomspaniels]

~Snippets from Around the Farm~

The first time I wore this hat, Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy looked at me and said, "Say 'clever girl.' Just once. Please."

[Image Description: A bay draft horse wears my hat, a green oilskin slouch hat, a type somewhat recently known for being worn by the animal wrangler in "Jurassic Park."]

#snippets from Around the Farm #Serenity #Perchybred #hat #horses in hats #slouch hat #dialogue #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #clever girl #humor #silly

[doomspaniels]

Bedtime. We have had Growly Happy Wriggle Scritchies, and usually at this time Yvaine curls up on my legs and goes to sleep. But she's just standing there by my knee, looking expectantly at me.

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: Do you need more scritchies?

Yvaine: *stares, doesn't respond to scritchies*

YPF: Do you need me to move my legs?

Yvaine: *stares, does not nest on legs, looks disappointed*

YPF: Do you need a blanket today? *spreads blanket across wide area of bed*

Yvaine: *stares, turns head slightly to the side, turns head back, stares more*

YPF: Oh! *removes tablet from Yvaine's Spot by my shoulder*

Yvaine: *relaxes, moves to my shoulder, curls up there*

YPF: Sorry honey. I can be dense sometimes.

#yvaine #cocker spaniel #shoulder spaniel #Spaniel Eyes #dialogue #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #sometimes I need a hint #dogblr

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Yvaine's Portable Furniture: Why do I feel so terrible today? I wasn't on a downswing. This is unexpected and awful.

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: *calls out latest update on hurricane passing Florida this weekend*

YPF: Oh, right, that's today. The last two of those have made me really sick.

TFaTB went to Feed the Big Doggies without YPF this morning. Tristan went along to "help," but Yvaine insisted she needed to stay with YPF. The Little Mommydog has many responsibilities, and they're very important to her.

#yvaine #cocker spaniel #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #dialogue #florida farm dog #florida summer #hurricane season #chronic illness #little mommydog #'helping' to Feed the Big Doggies #dogblr

[doomspaniels]

Insomnia photos: Yvaine has both of us, head on my knee and feet propped up on Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy. Tristan is occupying a good 3/4 of TFaTB's pillow and part of TFaTB's skull.

It's their house. We thumb-monkeys just exist to operate doorknobs, can openers, and crisper drawers.

#yvaine #tristan #cocker spaniel #insomnia photos #people are furniture #skull snuggles #they're not spoiled #oh no #certainly not #they only get precisely what they deserve #which is everything #dogblr #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy

[doomspaniels]

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: *playing carefully with Yvaine to prevent excitable rubbing of the right side of her face*

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: Can I pass you a Tristan? He wants to play and my hands are full.

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: *calls Tristan and tussles with him*

Tristan: *gets too excited that Yvaine is playing, comes back over to try to join Yvaine*

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: Tristan's attention span has expired. Please insert carrot to continue.

[Photo: Yvaine and Tristan lay together, chewing starch faux-rawhide sticks.]

#yvaine #tristan #cocker spaniel #tussling #the eyeball incident #carrots are serious business #dialogue #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #humor #dogblr

[doomspaniels]

A conversation noted in April 2017, relevant again because today it was Tristan who rendered assistance--

Yvaine's Portable Furniture, to Yvaine, after she licked up something I dripped on the floor: Thank you, sweetheart, your assistance is invaluable.

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: By which you mean it has no value.

YPF: It was honey.

TFaTB: Oh. Yes. That is very helpful.

...

Seriously, the first-pass spaniel tongue saves me a lot of scrubbing.

#Yvaine #Tristan #cocker spaniel #dialogue #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #honey #helping #dogblr

[doomspaniels]

7:40 am: Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy carries Tristan into the bedroom, explaining that Tris fell asleep while they were playing. TFaTB sets Tristan on TFaTB's pillows, and goes to take a shower.

7:41 am: Tristan crawls across to nestle in Yvaine's Portable Furniture's hair and rest his head on YPF's skull.

7:55 am: TFaTB pauses on the way out the door to pet the Spaniels and kiss YPF.

7:55 am: Tristan lifts his nose to accept YPF's morning kiss.

... 

*Somebody* thinks he's the center of the whole wide world. 

#Tristan #cocker spaniel #Tristan is a Morning Person #dialogue #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #skull snuggles #impertinent child #humor #dogblr #100% derp

[doomspaniels]

Tristan: *sleepy Spaniel Eyes*

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: Aaaah, he is SO CUTE.

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: I'm cute, too!

YPF: Yes, yes, but you look like you've been sick for five days.

TFaTB: Four! Four days! *counts on fingers* Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

TFaTB: *holding up five fingers* FOUR.

YPF: *laughs until felled by a coughing fit*

The laughter is gonna kill me.

#Tristan #cocker spaniel #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #human #debatably #dialogue #humor #the laughter is gonna kill me #Spaniel Eyes #skull snuggles

[doomspaniels]

Tristan, adorably leaning over my shoulder.

Me, resting my cheek against his soft warm little cheek, listening to him sleep.

Me, whispering: "you know you're not my dog and I don't love you"

(lies, lies)

#Tristan #skull snuggles #cocker spaniel #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #dialogue #dogblr #so freaking cute #shoulder spaniel

[doomspaniels]

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: Do you have any idea what makes him decide to sleep under the bed, or to sleep by our heads?

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: I am convinced that when he shakes his head, he rattles his brain cells like dice, then consults a lookup table to determine what he does next.

#Tristan #cocker spaniel #randomized lookup table #rattle your brain cells #100% derp #dogblr #skull snuggles #dialogue #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #humor #three rattling brain cells

[doomspaniels]

Guest: How do you have so much energy?

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: Cocker spaniels are made of rubber. When they wag they store potential energy in their spines.

...

But eventually the charge runs down and the rubber puppy goes flat.

#Tristan #cocker spaniel #rubber puppy #Spaniel physics #dialogue #humor #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #guest #flat puppy #so tired #very long day #dogblr

[doomspaniels]

I am a very naughty puppy. It is bedtime, and Yvaine is comfortably nesting on my legs. But I am fidgeting too much. Yvaine requires me to give her my hand, so she can lick the naughty fidgety puppy to sleep.

#Yvaine #cocker spaniel #little mommydog #i am her puppy #my hand is her puppy #more or less how this works #take a nap puppy #go the fuck to sleep puppy #glare #do not look directly into the eyes of the hypno-spaniel #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #dogblr

[doomspaniels]

Tristan the Fidget Puppy seems (at approximately 18 months of age) to have abruptly worked out a way to fidget every twenty minutes all night, but without getting up and moving across the bed, under the bed, across the room, and so on. He is staying mostly on our pillows, occasionally between us or at our feet, and when he needs to fidget, he only rolls over or stretches or shifts his position on the pillows.

Puppy has become a consistent night skull snuggler and human cuddler.

I would wonder if it had anything to do with the long vet visit last week and the antibiotics (either helping, or making him feel sick and needy)--except he suddenly started the extra cuddles the night BEFORE that vet visit.

#Tristan #cocker spaniel #fidget puppy #has been unable to settle for more than 20 mins since we got him #but he has found a solution #well done puppy #skull snuggles #occupying the pillow forts #smush cuddles achieved #snuggle the humans all night #abrupt behavior changes #problem solving #dogblr #sleeping #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #more evidence that cocker spaniels are cats

[doomspaniels]

After Sniff Patrol--

Yvaine's Portable Furniture: *laugh* Oh, you are a MESS.

YPF: Want to come pose for a picture?

[Spaniels go to indicated spot; stay; flat rectangle moves around; Spaniels get treat]

Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy: Do you ever feel like there's an element of disaster photography in your pictures?

#Yvaine #Tristan #cocker spaniel #muddy #messy #a muddy dog is a happy dog #the world is a glorious place to be a dog #dialogue #Yvaine's Portable Furniture #Tristan's Fetch and Tug Buddy #bad photography #humor #dogblr #that blurry tail