Cohen has a strange fancy with licking things.  Wait…let me explain why a dog licking things is strange.  Cohen doesn’t lick the typical things other dogs lick like his fur, a person’s face, or your hands after you eat.  Nope, not my dog.  He licks things that have no flavor, no purpose, no nothin’.

For example, last night I was using my laptop just sitting on the couch, and Cohen walks up to me.  I pet his head, and in return he licks the screen of my laptop.  I mean he wasn’t even looking at the screen.  He just turned in and…L-I-C-K!!!  He tends to lick the strange object after he has been standing there for a brief moment.  It’s like he’s thinking “Hey I wonder if that taste like anything?”  After owning this licking machine for over 4 years; we are still trying to decided if Cohen is truly dumb as rocks, or just eccentric.

Here are a few other strange things Cohen puts his tongue on.

• the top of the diamond in my engagement ring
• the toe of my shoe
• the seam on Derek’s jeans (near his knee)
• a basket
• the bathtub
• Derek’s laptop
• a chair
• the upstairs office trash can (it was empty)

Does anyone else’s dog do this?

Thursday evening Derek and I came home to a shredded papery mess.  It seems that our little fur ball of terror, Wrigley, just couldn’t wait another day to open Christmas presents….so she tore into two freshly wrapped packages under the tree.  Thing is, neither one were for her.  DANG DOG!

Thankfully, she only shredded the wrapping and boxes.  The contents inside remained mostly unscathed.  There were some teeth marks here and there, but nothing to cry over.

This was a big scare since we have a BRAND NEW couch coming in the next few weeks.  See, we had to buy a new couch since SOMEONE ate the last one.  Hahmmm! Hahmmm!  Remember this post?  It’s been about a year since she has destroyed anything but a dog toy, and we thought it was time to go ahead and buy a new non-nasty couch.  Wrigley, please don’t prove us wrong.  Pretty Please!

One of the presents she tore into contained perfume.  I really hope it was her nose that led her to this trail of terror, and not her overactive puppy brain.

…is his formal name.  We like to call him Cohen.

Another one bites the dust.  Another one of Wrigley’s toys that is.  This time it was Linus who met his maker.

Linus is nothing but little scraps of white fluff and a torn blue exterior as of this afternoon.

It looks like she finally realized what she’s done, and is now mourning his loss.

Cohen just chewed on his toes the entire time.  Mmmmm….toe cheese.

Hey, at least it wasn’t the couch!  I am trying to convince Derek that she is over that stage in her life.

I WANT A NEW COUCH!

Wriggs….do Momma a favor, and be over your little furniture eating phase.  Because Santa is watching, and if you are a good girl maybe he’ll bring you Linus’ twin brother.

While reading one of my favorite guilty pleasure blogs, Cute Overload, I came across a post that lead me to a PeoplePets.com article about the world’s tallest dog, Titan.  Titan is a Great Dane that towers over other pups at a stagering 42.25 inches, and he weighs 190 lbs.  THAT’S CRAZY!

World's Talles Dog

Titan’s owner rescued him from a breeder right here in Tennessee in 2005.  By the way, did I mention that Titan is deaf?  Well he is.  One of the many things that is even more miraculous than him being the world’s tallest dog, a white Great Dane (white danes are almost always deaf), Titan knows sign language.  And up until two years ago Titan endured epileptic seizures.  Poor baby.  I hate to hear that about any animal.  You can read more about this Too Tall Titan on his website, Titan & Friends.

Reading about this awesome dog named Titan, who beat the odds, reminds me of another dog named Titan that I know.  The Titan I know is owned by my friend Shannon.  We occasionally would watch Titan for Shannon when she would have to go out of town.  This Titan beat the odds too.  This poor baby had Lupus which made everything he did painful.  They even gave him less than a year to live.  Well guess what….that was almost 3 years ago.  Way to go buddy!

Titan and Cohen look exactly alike from behind.  It’s hard to tell them apart if they are not facing you.  Due to Titan spending a few weeks with us, he and Cohen became best friends.  Seriously, these two are a hoot when they are together.  Cohen still gets excited to this day when he hears Titan’s name.

Wrigley has a love of tennis balls.  She doesn’t like to play fetch or anything like that, no this little girl just enjoys the gum like chewiness of those little yellow fuzzy circles.  She looks so freakin’ adorable when she does this.  It keeps her entertained for hours, or at least until it rolls our of her reach.

I know that I submitted my poor little pups to the craziness of having to wear a Star Wars inspired costume this Halloween, but I think I just found their outfits for next Halloween.  What do ya’ll think?