Travels with Charley

I've been a bit quiet on the blogging front, partly because I have either mislaid or lost my camera and also because it has been too hot for the dogs to walk very far.

I am reading "Travels with Charley" by John Steinbeck. It's an account of a 3 month journey across America, in a converted pick up truck, that he did in 1960 with his standard poodle, Charley.

This excerpt struck a chord with me, as it describes exactly what Milo and Bruno tend to do to wake me up:-

"Charley likes to get up early, and he likes me to get up early too. And why shouldn't he? Right after his breakfast he goes back to sleep. Over the years he has developed a number of innocent-appearing ways to get me up. He can shake himself and his collar loud enough to wake the dead. If that doesn't work he gets a sneezing fit. But perhaps his most irritating method is to sit quietly beside the bed and stare into my face with a sweet and forgiving look on his face..."

Bruno favours the ear flapping, snorting approach, whilst Milo is more of a face starer.