They say that dogs and their owners often look alike.

It is less common but it has also been put about that dogs and their owners act alike.

Personally I choose to believe that I am nothing like my dog.

I rarely drool, the only spots I have are freckles and while I’ll never be called petite I certainly don’t tower over my friends.

Piper hates to be disturbed when sleeping, sleeps late whenever possible, and has a tendency to think she’s in charge of everything, clearly we are nothing alike…

Right.

Right?!

There are two things that have been brought to my attention recently that I can’t dispute.

The first is that Piper and I go up and down stairs the same. I’m not sure why it bothers so many people but apparently tromping up and down stairs like a herd of elephants is not considered ideal. Piper and I are united on the stand that dainty stair climbing is  for wimps who have no sense of urgency in their life.

The other thing that I’m afraid I can not deny is that Piper and I are resistant to change on our home turf. Especially if this change were to be carried out by someone else while we were not watching.

Piper dislikes new items in the yard, brought by man, fallen out of tree, fallen out of sky, four legged or two legged, however it got there, whatever it is, if it hasn’t happened on her watch it is not OK. The very large tree branch that fell down in a recent storm got a thorough barking by Piper.  As loud as that was you wouldn’t want to be a  opossum or a cat that happened to cut through the yard.  Once Piper even barked at a headlight I had replaced on the truck, no idea how she knew it was different but she did!

As for me, well, you can ask Sarah how I feel about such things. She will probably agree that in two straight years of living together the only time we had serious issues was when she rearranged our room without me…