Clean floor and Valentine supper...

[Richard Crowe]

We attended an all day long dog rescue event on Sunday, February 13th so Judy said she was really too tired to go out to a restaurant for Valentine's Day supper on Monday.  Instead, I bought her some potted tulips (which we will replant in our garden) and cooked her supper.  We sat down to eat in the living room (because we wanted to watch the Westminster Dog Show) and Judy had a glass of wine on the table next to her chair - just at the right height for Holly's tail.  The tail wagged as it always does and the glass hit our tiled floor and broke into a million pieces.  First thing to do was to get Holly and all of our Maltese outside and then sweep, vacuum and scrub the tile floor (we use a Floormate for scrubbing and couldn't live without it).  This took us about an hour and then the dinner went into the microwave to reheat it and we restarted the video recorder (luckily we were watching a recorded version of the show).

 

Funny thing, we keep out home spotlessly clean but, we have never swept, vacuumed and scrubbed twice within a couple of hours.  We had just completed doing it right before we sat down for supper. We have decided that in the future, only plastic glasses for that table...

 

BTW:  Holly's tail is also the right height to sweep a toddler off its feet and... it is constantly wagging.

[Christine & Shelby]

Sounds like a great day - except the required cleaning :o)   

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

Dogs, tulips, the Westminster show on tape, someone else makes dinner and you get help cleaning the floor! Valentine's Day doesn''t get any better!  Way to go DH.

[Lorraine Bromley]

I just broke my own cup and Neely's tail was no where to be found. But I BLAMED him anyway! I would never dock a tail or an ear! I wouldn't be able to blame the dog for anything but gas! then.

[Richard Crowe]

Our entire home has tile floors.  We rescue, foster, and find forever homes for Maltese and have twenty to thirty dogs passing through our home during any given year.  Carpets would be impossible to keep clean.  Even our Holly, who we thought was a Golden Puddle until she was exactly three months old, made good use of the tile floors.  She hasn't had an accident in the close to three years since she turned 3 months old.

 

Luckily, our desert-like climate in Northern San Diego County makes it easy to have tile throughout the house.  Back East or in the Midwest, the winters would be too cold to have an entire house done with tile on the floor.

[Deanna & Desi & Cori]

Thank heavens your floor is tile - I had images of wine on carpet...  Ugh!!!

[Paul & Michele]

This is the reason our breeder docks the tails.  We have alsways had labs before and at Christmas there was no breakable ornaments towards the bottom because they would always get knocked off and broken.  At least you still got to enjoy your Valentines day together.

[F, Calla & Luca]

What a nice Valentine's Day dinner you planned anyway.

[Donna K & Quincy]

Doodle tails should be listed as a the perfect sweeper, there have been lots of spills at our house usually on to the carpet.

[Kaytlin and Cooper]

Ah these doodles have a knack of knocking things over with their tails thats for sure!!!!