Lilly is both the noisiest dog I’ve ever had and the most silent. Lately, it seems, every time I turn around … there she is under foot. I bet I’ve stepped on her more in the last month than I have in the last 3 years. And, I’m not sure why.
Maybe she’s just my best, best friend from all the training work. Maybe she’s hoping each move I make is headed toward playing outside. (We’re going out less due to cold and snow.) Maybe she’s just clingy.
Or, maybe I’m just so distracted that I don’t hear her coming. She is, after all, the only dog I’ve ever had that I successfully trained to tolerate weekly toenail trims, so her toes make little to no sound on the tile floors.
I’m all for togetherness and the bonding we get from training A LOT, but I feel terrible that I keep stepping on her. Her toes must be quite sore.
She’s ALWAYS followed me in the house, but never this close.
An example — I’m brushing my teeth, take a step over to the trash can, and in the split second I return, BAM Lilly is laying down on the bath mat waiting for me to finish.
Or, I’m walking down the hall and turn quickly suddenly remembering something. BAM, I step on Lilly and trip. Both of us grumbling from the crash.
Perhaps in her spare time, Lilly is training to be a ninja.
That must be it. And, if so … that means I’m the one having trouble all of a sudden. If she’s always been right THERE, and I’m stepping on her NOW, then I’m the one with slow reflexes. Shoot! :o)
My aussie does that too. Maybe it’s a herding breed thing. I always trip on Bosco in the kitchen, he lays down silently behind me while I’m cooking or doing dishes and I take a step back and boom. Poor Bosco! Good thing he’s a big boy!
Maybe it’s a Border Collie thing. I step on Jaime all the time but it doesn’t seem to discourage him from lying down directly behind me in the kitchen when I’m cooking 😀
devon, on the other hand, rarely gets stepped on but that’s probably because it hrts him a lot more when I do.