I think it takes a very centered person to admit that in public :~D
I too, have panted at my dogs. :~D
LOL
My dogs know I'm weird. I suppose now, all of FreeRepublic knows it too!
:)
susie
A high-pitched, very rapid pant (it's really more of a silent ha-ha-ha-ha!) gets Shelley very excited, she starts leaping about and smiling. I haven't been able to get her to pant back yet.
A little growl on my part is our signal that it's o.k. to play tug o' war with the leash . . . only done while doing agility, you do it to jazz the dog up before going in the ring. Not that Shelley generally needs jazzing up, good grief, she's a lunatic anyhow. But this weekend it was very cold on Saturday but turned extremely warm and VERY humid on Sunday - and what with being a lunatic on Saturday on account of the cold, she was dragging on Sunday so I did tug o' war with her beforehand. She stopped and sniffed before she did the weave poles in the Standard class, and the judge counted it as a refusal, so no Q there . . . but she did great in the Jumpers-With-Weaves class, got her last Q for her Open title and First Place - which means a nice blue ribbon for me, plus a green Qualifying Score ribbon and a real bronze medal for her Open Title -- and a cute squeaky toy for her. (She much prefers the squeaky toy.)