After I shot the photos from yesterday’s post, I sat in the sun myself. Suddenly, Lilly came to my defense from what appears to her as bugs crawling on my back. Turns out, they were shadows from spots on the glass door. (TMI, perhaps, on my window cleaning efforts.)
Maybe your dogs don’t do this, but Lilly and Ginko try to eat bugs they see on the ground, or whatever, especially in the summer. Ants, flies, you name it … they quietly, but persistently try to eat the bugs.
Well, when Lilly first started poking me in the back with her nose, I wasn’t sure of her motive. She often pokes me for attention, pokes me for food, or pokes me just to make me laugh.
She poked here. She poked there. She poked high. She poked low.
So I finally asked Tom if I had a spider or something on my back.
Nope. Just spots from the window.
I began moving so that it seemed like the spots were moving even more, and she had a field day diving at them to protect me.
I guess it’s (as Elayne at Days of Speed would say) a ghetto version or a poor man’s laser pointer (which our behaviorist said NEVER to show Lilly … because fearful or intense dogs can become scary obsessive about it).
My dogs eat bugs too. The problem is that they eat spiders, who can bite their throat on the way down. We’ve had a couple of allergic reactions to those bites. Now, my husband kills the spiders, and I take them outside (which is probably just a slower form of death).
It’s truly amazing how things that seem benign can turn into veterinary issues – especially in my house.
My dogs have never tried to eat spots on me though!