When socks go missing in this house....

pouting in bed after watching Daddy leave for work without her

using the purple bag as a pillow

the blanket must be a comfier pillow

or maybe the purse is

Finley with the loot we collected from 3 PetSmarts, 1 Petcetera and 2 PetValus
includes 1 bag of food, a box of dog biscuits, Northern Biscuits dog biscuits, Fruitable, Kong toy stuffers in peanut butter and bacon n cheese, water bottle for her crate, soft pin hair brush, a leash, three collars, a clicker, Blue Buffalo wet dog food (the chicken dinner kind for christmas), Zoe sticks, Zuke's mini in peanut butter (3 bags), Blue Buffalo soft treats (2 different kinds) and a Greenies Dental Chew

The other day Finley did something that is so characteristically cat-like. Now I’m used to my friends cats climbing all over furniture and perching themselves on top of bookcases, cabinets or fridges. I have yet to see a dog do that. Miss Fin gets into everything, so sometimes I keep food on the upper two shelves of my bookcase.  I was having a lazy day, so I was hanging out on the couch playing Wii with Finley keeping me company. She got a little bored and started sniffing everything - she LOVES doing that btw. She got extremely intrigued by the food on the upper shelves and did her best to get at it.

After analyzing the situation from the ground, she got up on her back legs and tried jump/climbing the side of the bookcase. When this didn’t work, she got on the couch, which is right beside the bookcase, and tried the same thing. All she managed to do was fall off the couch into the bowl of water I keep for her in the basement. Her expression was quite funny when that happened and she looked stunned for a few seconds because she got wet. Apparently, those methods weren’t going to work, so she spent some time sitting on the couch, looking up at the food. As if willing it to float down off the shelf to within her reach.

She must have seen that the shelves looked like stairs so, naturally, she though that climbing them would be the answer. She got on the second shelf up from the floor. At this point, I had stopped playing Wii and was watching her with mild curiosity, this seemed rather unusual behaviour for a dog. Fin then realized I was looking at her and instead of trying to climb the shelves, she lied down on the one she was on, pretending this had been her goal all along.

I guess it must not have been that comfortable, cause she didn’t stay there for too long - apparently cats are much better at this lying around on shelves full of stuff than dogs are. Fin looked a little confused at what she was doing and only lasted a couple of minutes before deciding that the books were taking up too much room and getting off.