We walk in the door and every single time, no matter if we’ve been gone all day or 6 minutes, it is CELEBRATION TIME!!!
The dog can’t help but lose her mind, she is so excited to see us, jumping, licking, barking, spinning. Sometimes a little pee comes out. She can’t help it, the excitement is too great.
No greeting compares to the dog’s.
Goldie is a Morkie. Goldie is legendary. Everybody loves Goldie.
Doesn’t matter if she’s having a bad day, scratchy or itchy, eating away at her bowl of dog turkey, chicken treats, attacking her toy Clifford, or gnawing on her own left foot, once someone arrives, she goes ballistic.
She can’t help but keep The Promise she never realized she made, the automatic exuberance and personality bursting from her heart and soul every single day, her divinely appointed Signature Move, consistently, no question, she will deliver the ultimate showing of love to all.
Inside her little head, if she could talk, she’d say, “This is the greatest moment of my life to see you again!”
No offense to cat lovers, as the feline is of course special, too, but let’s be honest: there’s no welcome like a dog welcome.
That’s the Dog’s Promise.
We’ve had her in our family for a while now, and how she has blessed our lives.
When we bought her as the runt of the litter, from a shoe box in the parking lot at Home Depot, she preferred sitting on my head before bed.
Now she is full grown and still so small we have to keep the hummingbirds at bay from flying away with her. We once saw 4 ants attempting to carry her to their hill.
We still snuggle, but only after she has rolled over to make certain I tickle her belly as she bites my hands, tail waggling so forcefully it creates it’s own weather pattern.
Her name is officially Goldie, but we call her all kinds of nicknames, which are appropriate due to her size and behavior around the house, yard, and Tootsie Roll treats she leaves under my baby grand piano:
The Stain
Butt Rat
Doge
Scratches
Squirrel
Baby Chewbacca
Becka
Bird Food
Gordon
Bear
Kitty Kat
Golden
Sister
Poopy Bum
Good Girl
Cuddles
Oogie Boogie Oogoo Boo
Goldie brings automatic joy to everyone who meets and interacts with her.
The Promise is real with this one, she wields a powerful aura, and will bark at all things concerning, especially Alexa. In fact, we are curious if she orders most of the Amazon purchases that show up just so she can perform her barkopera arrietta concerto #2 for the always mysterious delivery guy.
Take her on a walk and there is no walk…not just because she has to sniff every 3 feet, but no one will let us pass, she’s just too dang cute.
Ella, our oldest, keeps sending messages from Italy of excitement for her return home in a few weeks to embrace her Golden Girl and only sister.
We love Goldie, and you most likely have a pet that you, too, adore. She is a part of our family and very important to us.
We keep lots of promises to her that she doesn’t realize, but she keeps the most important promise to us, in showing affection, love, and joy every time we come around.
That’s a pretty great Signature Move to be known for.
From what I know of most dogs, it seems to be something they just can’t help but do.
That is The Dog’s Promise.
~ Jason Hewlett
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Um, we got our yorkie because of Goldie, so…
LOL! I’m so glad you have your sweet baby doggy.
precious!
She is precious! Thank you.
adorable!!! Fripp
Thank you my dear Fripp!
Being a dog lover myself, I’d have to say, you sure nailed this one. Our little fellow is so much the same and he brings us so much joy. His signature move is grabbing his ball that has holes in it and shaking it so hard while making a growling noise that it flies across the room enabling him to go catch it again. Then this is on repeat for awhile and we never tire of laughing at his moves. Thanks for the fun pictures!
I love that. Thank you for sharing!
Raptor Man ~
Well… yes… you are right about the dog v. cat greeting thing.
My cat expects ME to be excited to see HER.
She remains the queen.
That’s her promise.
Also…
I vote for “Baby Chewbacca.”
“Oogie Boogie Oogoo Boo” comes in a close second.
BTW, my cat’s name is “Gata” — “cat” in Spanish.
ox,
Raptor Boy
The Cat’s Promise may need to be the next post! LOL!
Jason, I LOVE this so much!!! (And I also love Goldie and have been the recipient of her loving, joyful affection.) Thank you for this. I see now how Scooby keeps his Promise all day every day to Rick and me. What an example these fur babies are to us of keeping The Promise to love us the way they do!!
The Fur Baby Promise! Love it.
Hi Jason, your Goldie is so precious. And Ella is absolutely gorgeous ! You and your beautiful wife did good! Our family has a spoiled rotten, loved tremendously doggie too. Her name is Sandy. She was saved by a rescue and my daughter adopted her as a gift to us. Her breed? Well, her mother was a Pitbull, and daddy was a Dachshund . Looks like daddy with moms sweet face. So Doxybull, Pittdoxy which ever version of the mix, is what she is. She loves everybody!
How fun! Love it. Thank you for sharing and enjoy that amazing dog.