{"id":80,"date":"2009-04-29T20:59:29","date_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/dogblog\/?p=80"},"modified":"2009-04-29T20:59:29","modified_gmt":"2009-04-30T00:59:29","slug":"mastication-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/journal\/mastication-situation\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastication Situation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Love it or hate it, we dogs make copious noises before, during and after most of our activities. The one I’m focusing on today is getting ready for sleep. I begin each night in a beautiful leather chair in the master bedroom. I adopted it as my own, after one of our cats in his last days, kept using it as a toilet. The humans cleaned it and bought a new cushion, but just don’t seem to sit in it like they used to. Good for me!
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\nAs I settle in for the night, A-Dog is usually settling in as well. Sometimes she’ll watch some TV or do a bit of work on the computer, but eventually it’s lights out and quiet time. That’s when our troubles start. I methodically prepare my mouth for sleep at set intervals. A-Dog describes it like I’m trying to clear peanut butter out of the roof of my mouth. And it drives her bonkers! Quiet is really relative to a dog. I don’t even realize I’m being noisy, but I hear her muttered comments loud and clear. Most of these comments I cannot type here… Does she forget that these ears I have aren’t just soft, cute accessories, but can hear very well? My masticating sounds last on and off for about 15 minutes and then I’m off to dreamland. I think A-Dog gets so worked up sometimes that she can’t fall asleep for hours. What’s a dog to do?
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\nIf you’re a loyal reader here, you know that I usually try to explain my dog behavior and sometimes give advice. Not this time. I have searched many pages on this www and have only found mentions of this phenomenon in veterinarian journals referencing dogs in poor health. I must say that it made me a little paranoid and a lot hypochondriac. UNTIL I found this Facebook Group which helped me feel healthy and could say “In your face!” to A-Dog. It’s title is I like the schlurping sound my dog makes when he\/she is tired<\/a><\/strong> The group was created by Jamie of Cowbelly Pet Photography<\/a><\/strong>. I can’t thank her enough for the validation. Maybe she can convince A-Dog that all us girls and dog-lovers need to stick together no matter what the racket.
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\nHere endeth the doggie lesson! Not much of a lesson, I know, but it did make me sleepy!


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