Deuce, Take Two!

Last fall, we helped out Ryan's aunt/uncle/cousin by watching their dog, Deuce, while they all traveled out of state to a wedding. I just looked back at my recap of that visit, and oh how I miss that weather!! Let's have more of THAT!

Deuce is a beautiful Blue Heeler with such a gentle personality. He's a joy to have, and one of our favorite things about him is that he utterly ignores Braeya. She isn't fond of him, but she IS getting braver. I walked through our bedroom yesterday to find him staring her in the face, and she wasn't hissing. If I hadn't been so overcome by amazement, I would have thought to take a picture. I do have this example, though. He's asleep and she's frozen.

We are learning that having a dog in the dead of sub-zero temperatures is VERY different from having one in the dead of shorts weather. LOL! (And while our Phoebe is perfectly content to sleep on the couch all day in cold weather, Deuce is a country boy at heart, and he is happiest while skipping merrily through the open air, no matter how cold it may be.)

While Phoebe is a Bekah-Mom girl, Deuce is totally a Daddy-Ryan boy, so it has brought him great sorrow to learn that Ryan works during the day. This is basically his favorite place to be:

In fact, yesterday, just about an hour after Ryan left for work, Deuce started dancing around by the front door like he had to go RIGHT now, so I flew into full speed, throwing on clothes, snow pants, a second pair of socks, shoes, gloves, hat, muffler, the leash, and when we got outside, he just started skipping around and jumping by the car. That little stinker just wanted to see Ryan and tricked me into getting out!

So we went to see Ryan. I'm nothing if not a sucker for literal puppy dog eyes.

He's a good traveler, though. Hunkers right down in the back and stays so quiet you almost have to check to make sure he's still there!

So pretty. :) 

Deuce and I spend our days working around the house together. He lives in hope of scraps, but you know how I feel about sharing food. (I'm KIDDING. I just try to make sure I don't overfeed dogs that don't belong to me.)

And then Ryan comes home, and all is right with the world.

He makes our days brighter, and we are having a fun time with him!