Get it? Meatball? Cuz he’s round? heh heh heh.
Poor TWooie. We should call him Tubby instead. He’s soooo fat. He is easily as wide as he is long, and being a Wootie sibling, genetics alone aren’t going to help him slim down either. But next to TWooie, Wootie looks darn-near svelte.
The trick is to coyly curve your body so the camera can’t see your fat. Like this.
If genetics are unkind to TWooie, perhaps exercise would be a little friendlier to his physique. Except that TWooie does not believe in exercise. On the very rare occasion when he is not tagging along at my heels only as fast as he needs to in order to maintain nose-contact with my pants, he may run after another dog to bite them in the bum…
Stop running! You make me look bad! CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP!
… for which he gets in trouble (from me), and immediately stops running. I’m starting to think it’s a clever ploy to blame ME for the reason he can’t run off some of that lard.
Clever ploy? Me? *bats eyelashes*
^^stinkin’ cute little meatball.
And it’s a good thing he’s cute too. The more he settles in, the more of his personality we are starting to see. He is super wiggly and lazy and cuddly and shy. But he also has an assertive streak.
I don’t like that dog running past me. CHOMP.
I don’t like you rough housing with me. CHOMP.
I don’t like you brushing my tangly pantaloons. CHOMP. CHOMP. SNARL. CHOMP.
Once he CHOMPS, he squints and cringes. Poor wee little fella. OTOH, he could just stop chomping. For the most part, he is amazingly agreeable to just about anything I do to him, and he’s been bathed and nail clipped and manhandled by me quite a lot without protest. And he never chomps very hard when he does, although Piper says that’s not entirely true.
Shut-UP! Don’t talk to me. If you talk to me, he’ll know I’m here and then he’ll CHOMP me.
Poor Woofs. Their only recourse was to flee to the water, where TWooies dare not tread.
He hasn’t tried chomping Woo yet, but Wootie doesn’t like to be left out of fun stuff, so he threw himself in the water too.
I would never CHOMP Woo. But why don’t you come a little closer?
Wootie and TWooie continue to get along famously. This morning I caught them making out, and we had to have a little conversation about what is and is not appropriate behaviour among siblings. I have no photos of this conversation, but I can summarize it for you in two sentences: Wootie licked my eyelid mid lecture and wandered off with on one of my slippers before I was done. TWooie got wiggly-bum syndrome, leaned his forehead into my stomach and fell over on his side, which is his common response to being spoken to directly. In other words – not a very productive information session.
I think if anything Wootie is just a little disappointed that his brother won’t play with him. For years, Wootie has been playing with his “imaginary” brother.
Look at me! I have a Wootie Toy™! Don’t you want to come and get it from me? Try it! Come and get it! Look at me taunt you!
Ha ha! Pych! You can’t get it NONONO! I said no you can’t get it before I do!
The sad thing about those photos is that TWooie was nowhere near him … and neither was anyone else. Wootie makes up these games of “chase me” with himself. I am pretty sure he’d be ecstatic if TWooie would get off his ass and run after him.
ha ha! Nope.
As for keeping him permanently? Well, I dunno … Tweed’s nose is still a little outta joint.
Did you just make a picture pun? Really?
Randy says
I think Twooie is a keeper, but Piper & Tweed are going to need to have a “Come To Jesus” talk with Twooie to lay down the 3WAAW ground rules for him.
oslosmum says
LOVE tweed-nose photo.
Life in Vet School says
Oh, poor little Wootie — I laughed out loud at him playing keep-away with himself!
It reminds me a tiny bit of my littlest dog, who used to try (sort of) to play with my bigger dogs. She’d have a toy and be taunting them with it, wiggling her butt and play bowing and waving the toy in their faces. And then if one of them actually showed interest and started to chase her, she’d flip over on her back so fast sometimes she’d actually skid, yelpshrieking (distinct from, but possibly related to, barkscreaming) for them not to hurt her! I never figured out what the heck she actually wanted to happen!
Karen says
Wow, that’s a whole lot of Flambe in the pic where TWooie is chasing Tweed!
I’ll be the boring, sensible voice here. I’m hoping you find someone close by to adopt TWooie, so that you and Wootie can continue to see him.
jessie says
tangly pantaloons….hahahaha….that made my day. :)
sharon says
“TWooie got wiggly-bum syndrome, leaned his forehead into my stomach and fell over on his side, which is his common response to being spoken to directly. ”
awwww. we call those ‘bougie-hugs’ around here :)
Christine says
I love the details on the TWooie assimilation. Do you really call him TWooie? Ha.
I was going to message you about linking to my blog, but the link was broken!
Christine
Sallie says
I love him!!!! and them all. lol
Stephanie says
I’m loving TWooie. He’s absolutely adorable. My GSD/Collie mix loves to play with toys by herself. She even sits there and makes noises while she plays. It’s fun to see another dog do it too.
Shey says
My wish for today was granted: another post from the Food Lady.
3WAAW makes me wish I would blog about my dog. And then I remember I don’t own a camera (not even a semi-decent one).
TWooie is adorable. Dare I say he may be even more adorable than Woo? *thinks about it* No. Maybe not.
Best of luck to you, whatever you decide to do about TWooie.
Carol says
Oh, poor Tweed! The indignities, slights, insults, annoyances, and harassment you endure! I promise I would treat you better than FL and the 2Wa2Ws. You can come live with me!!! WhAt? You love the FL? After everything is factored in?
Well, I do too!
Arwen Lune says
Ohhh, it’s lovely to see Twooie with a relaxed smile on his face – all the photos until today had this ‘This is nice. I think. I’m not sure. I’m just going to sit here and hope nobody does anything worrying’ expression on his face. He’s even cuter with the ears and the smile!
jackie says
Well I selfishly say you must keep Twooie so that he can remain my cyber-dog and I get to see his gorgeous mug every day.
Gotta question for you F-L. Seems like you take the woofs swimming almost every day with mud and such. Then mere hours later they are posing for you all groomed and pretty. Do you have a home bathing system? Always looking into ways to get my pup clean in the winter when we can’t use the hose outside.
Michelle says
Twooie sounds like a real character! This has got to be the cutest bunch of dogs I’ve ever seen!
cinnamondog says
He sure is cute … How big is he? I mean, how much *should* he weigh, is he a smallish dog? I don’t know why I think it would be easier to justify keeping him if he were under 25 pounds, I realize that’s not particularly logical. But it’s like buying something that’s on sale, you know? :) “Why, it was marked down from $80 to $25, practically free!” “Why, he hardly eats anything at all, who notices one more?”
I guess you can tell how I ended up with six specimens of canis familiaris in MY house.