Did she say "off the sofa?"

OK, so sometimes they forget the golden rule...NEVER go on the sofa without being invited. That may sound silly but could you imagine the chaos and the hair? For-get-it. My wife is a clean freak and rolls this tape roller thingy across the sofa at least 5 times a day. This thing does wonders, lifts the hair right off the sofa and onto the tape roll. Then you peal off the top layer only to expose a fresh layer of masking tape.... glorious invention to say the least.

At night my wife spends a few hours of quality time, on the sofa, watching silly shows on the idiot box (TV, thanks mom for disposing that word in my brain when I was a child...well... a smaller child than I am today). I am not a fan of what's on TV these days as I get bored quickly or fall asleep within seconds after hitting the sofa. The dogs are lap dogs as much as King Kong was a gorilla. You can not expect to sit alone on our sofa at any time of the day. Trixie and Wilson will jet right over and look up waiting for the command to leap onto the sofa. There was a time when they would jump right up without waiting for an invitation....that's right...could you even imagine behavior like that? They would just leap right up, without hesitation, and take over the sofa like wild dogs. Not now... it's a very formal and proper procedure. Dogs MUST wait for the invitation. Of course once they're up there all hell breaks loose between them, looking for the right spot to nestle. Wilson's a "top of the legs" sleeper and Trixie finds a spot close to the face and against the back of the sofa, kind of like a wedge. Sometimes they forget that they need to be invited .... leap right up....! You were not invited!! Get off the sofa and wait to be invited!! Good puppy. It would be completely impossible to introduce the invitation method with their feeding frenzy routine at dinner time.

A few precious moments in time have been documented as seen in the photo above. As best as I can recall this photo was taken shortly after my wife dressed them up in their new winter coats. I think she was laughing soooo hard that she couldn't shoo them off the sofa nor could any sort of command be understood.

As you can see they had no idea what the heck my wife was saying......huh?...she did say we could sit in the sofa, right?