Knot Again

Wanted poster

Crime scene photo:

Puppies & a sock

As I promised (thanks to MJ for a suggestion I think just might work)...

While I was trying to get my pictures of the socks for yesterday's post, the puppies were very interested and wanted to have their noses right in everything.  So, I thought I'd get a picture of the sock WITH the puppies.  Can I just tell you... this is much easier said than done.

Zhaan was laying down, and I put the sock on her paws, but in the interest of artistic photography (and my perfectionism rearing its ugly head), I wanted her one paw to be just a hair forward of where it was.  So, I moved it.  This freaked Zhaan out, and she pulled the paw way back.  And then she rolled over on her side.  She was so confused about what I was trying get her to do.  I tried it multiple times, too, all with the same result.  Poor puppy.  I finally did get a shot... but, um... not at all like the shot I was TRYING to get (If you click it, a bigger picture will come up, and you can actually tell where she ends and the couch begins):

Then I tried the same thing with Chianna.  I placed the sock on her little paws... and she just wanted to bite it (I think her ultimate plan included running away with it, unrolling my carefully crafted ball of sock yarn, and getting me to chase her all about the house to get it back... but hey, I'm just guessing).  I yelled no, and she jumped back and skittered off, and couldn't be coaxed back... although she'd come back to make sure she didn't miss anything when I tried to go back to my planned photo shoot.

In the end, I just laid the sock near her, and QUICK! snapped a picture:

I don't know if you can tell from the one above, but she's just about to pounce.  Here's what she looked like just a couple seconds later:

This is one of her favorite games.  Bark, pounce, run at full speed around the couch or down the hall and back, lather, rinse, repeat. 

My friend, Christy, who also has one of these darling beasties (if you go back into the archives, she has pictures of hers in the September 23rd and August 3rd posts), calls it the Shiba 500... a great description of this behavior.