If it were possible
Friday, June 13, 2008 at 06:38PM 
If it were possible for a dog to blush, Ivy would have been blushing in this picture. She is not sleeping, but she refused to make eye contact.
You see, she gets embarrassed. Ivy knows a faux pas better than any of my grown boys.
Last night, we were watching a re-run of Frasier and it happened again.
Let me explain. Eve was raised in a house with a door bell, so when she hears a door bell, she gets up and goes to the door, barking and wagging her tail. Ivy, on the other hand, was raised in a house with a knocker and so she has no idea what it really means when someone rings the door bell. She just thinks it's time to get up and join Eve in random barking, because Eve still barks at door bells--every time Roz or Niles rings Frasier's door bell. Which happens in almost every episode.
So now Ivy barks when she hears a door bell and thinks it's great fun.
Except now Eve is nearly deaf and when she is asleep, as we learned last night, she no longer hears Frasier's door bell.
Ivy hopped off my lap and went into her random act of barking, but Eve did not join in. Ivy looked from face to face and then, ears drooping, tail tucked and clearly embarrassed, she ran into the office and hid under the desk. No amount of coaxing and telling her it was "alright" would convince her to come back to the couch.
Barking for no apparent reason is fine if someone else is barking with you, but barking alone and then being CONFUSED ABOUT WHAT WAS GOING ON is, apparently, just too embarrassing for her. Every once in a while, she'd peek around the door, but as soon as we would call her, she'd go back under the desk.
Poor confused dog. We finally had to put her in her crate to help her get over it. Sometimes that's the most merciful thing to do.
Reader Comments (10)
Awwww, I just don't know what to say. Poor thing.
Ha! So funny.
That is too funmy, Kim!
Shame humans don't get embarrassed like they used too! When they do they still don't hide they flaunt it ... Poor girl ... they say animals are dumb ...
Poor puppy. :(
Oh dear! How embarrassing for Ivy!
That Ivy is just so darn funny!
Poor Ivy!! She has a little company, though, with Tanner. He, too, barks at the doorbells that ring on TV..... Even the Domino's pizza commercials.
Please, please, don't tell Ivy that I laughed at her... I don't want to make it worse. :)
Too funny!!!