Welcome and enjoy my first dog anecdote.



Ava as a puppy, listening to me.



Ava is the first dog I’ve ever had. She is a 27 lb Chocolate Boston Terrier who loves everyone. Not having had a dog before, I had no idea what was to come. Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine a Boston Terrier who would crawl into my heart, almost as deeply as my children.

Dog Thoughts
This blog is to record and share the incredible secret relationships of dog and human. The “conversations “ that actually go on both ways, and how even though I can’t pick up conversational Spanish, French or Hungarian, I quickly learned “dog”. Some of it will be stories of the five years she has been in our lives. A lot will be about what I believe she knows, what she tells me, asks for, and thinks about the life of humans. Then, there will be some posts by other humans who also know and love Ava. But I am not on a quest to prove I have the best dog, so I invite other dog families of all breeds, not just Boston Terriers, to tell their canine tidbits.

 I am hoping for a delightful, happy, humorous, heartwarming blog that will immortalize the dogs we discuss, inspire others to become doggie parents, and teach us some life lessons that we can only learn from those who are supposed to be less intelligent than us.

I want to start with an anecdote that I often share when talking about my Ava. The way we trained Ava was with a treat. She would go outside and when she came back we would give her a treat for doing the right thing outside. This evolved into me giving her a treat every time she went outdoors. OK, I’m a mush. Sometimes someone else lets her in and forgets to give her a doggie treat. Well, she knows, mommie is a mush, and comes to wherever I am in the house and talks. She goes kind of mmmrrrrmmm and moves her mouth around (which in Boston Terriersh, a dialect of Dogsh means food, or treat (There is only one word for dog food, and dog treat, since they do have a limited vocabulary.) And of course I get up, stop whatever I’m doing and go give her a treat. Oh come on – you do it too! Well this one evening I was doing something and my son let her in. Moments later she was by my side saying rrrrrrmmm rrrrmmm (translation - I want my treat). So I went downstairs toward the pantry and said to Jason “you forgot to give her a treat” and he said “I gave her a treat.”

Yes, I had been tricked by a dog. Clever. When did she figure that one out? I remember the first time my daughter, at the time a tiny toddler fooled me like that, but this is Boston Terrier, a dog, a canine. I burst out laughing and fell a little more in love with her.

So I hope you have enjoyed the introduction to the Conversation with my dog blog! Our sidebar has directions on how to subscribe, which will bring our postings to your heart, through your email. Your also have the option to bookmark our page for easy retrieval. The comment button is below and we would love to hear your opinion and your dog conversations. I will relay them to Ava.

We are planning a blog entry about once a week, so please look for our next entry which will talk about what Ava must be thinking when we prepare food. Until that time, enjoy this link to videos about various breeds, this one being of course Boston Terriers.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3dWns5n21s

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