Her life is extremely difficult. (Rachel Lucas)

Her life is extremely difficult.

Sunny has taken over the sofa (which I have had to cover with a Mexican blanket because damn, that dog sheds), and I'm fine with that because she does incredibly cute things there. Look at her hind legs, with her cute little feet crossed so cutely. And her cute little face so cutely scrunched up. Awwwwwwww.

Posted on August 18, 2007 9:34 AM | Permalink

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Fuzz Martin

She looks like you just picked her up from the taxidermist... a BAD taxidermist.

Posted by Fuzz Martin | August 18, 2007 9:51 AM

Posted on August 18, 2007 09:51

WayneB

Heh. If you turned all the black on her white, and shrunk her to about 1/4 her size, that could be my Jack Russell. She does poses like that on our bed.

Posted by WayneB | August 18, 2007 10:23 AM

Posted on August 18, 2007 10:23

James

Ha...are you sure she is alive?

Posted by James | August 18, 2007 10:28 AM

Posted on August 18, 2007 10:28

Rebecca

HA! What a cutie! That picture made me laugh, thanks Rachel.

Posted by Rebecca | August 18, 2007 11:00 AM

Posted on August 18, 2007 11:00

otcconan

You know, there's something about the way that dogs sleep, I always wonder if they're dead. Maybe I'm just morbid or something. My parents have two dogs, a golden retriever and a border collie. Ok, so the border collie, Max (who is really my brother's dog but they're watching him while he fights the bad guys in Iraq), he's pretty high strung. I don't think he ever sleeps, actually. But the golden retriever, Hunter? Man, maybe it's cause he's old, ten or eleven, but he sleeps so deep you have to give him a good toe in the ribs 'fore he moves.

Oh, and we used to have this dog, when I was a kid, named Mauser (yes, after the rifle), who slept lying flat on his back in a similar pose to the one Sunny is in, only all his legs would be straight up in the air. He'd sleep like this even on the concrete patio. It was always assumed he was not dead, because he always slept like that. Until the day we found him like that and he was, in fact, dead.

Posted by otcconan | August 18, 2007 12:20 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:20

otcconan

I realize posts like that should be best left on my own blog, but I don't feel like loggin' in over there, and I guess it was on-topic. Sorry bout that, Rachel. I don't want to freak you into always thinking she's dead when she's like that.

Posted by otcconan | August 18, 2007 12:22 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:22

retrocop

At least Sunny has the modesty to cross her legs while laying about on her back... you know so her business isn't all out there and stuff.

Charlie frequently reclines in a similar position and cutely folds his front paws back. However he disgustingly sprawls his hind legs apart as though proudly showing off his "boys" and other accoutrements. Such a ...dog.

Posted by retrocop | August 18, 2007 12:38 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:38

Rachel Lucas

Otconnan - au contraire! Write all you want! I like the nice long comments, especially when they're about dogs.

Fuzz - I didn't even think about the taxidermy thing until now. You're right! She looks pretty freaky.

Heh, I knew she wasn't dead when I took this pic because she was snoring like an old man. Absolutely the most amusing sound I've ever heard.

Retrocop - Sunny doesn't always have such modesty. Sometimes she lays there like she's ready for a Pap smear. It's pretty offensive. But also funny. Mwheh.

Posted by Rachel Lucas | August 18, 2007 12:49 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:49

Nick

Looks like rigor mortis has set in.

Posted by Nick | August 18, 2007 12:51 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:51

Hardliner

check her pulse...

Posted by Hardliner | August 18, 2007 12:54 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:54

retrocop

Rachel,

Snoring, oh yes, my Lucky used to snore, but not like the turd-dropping Bulldog I am keeping for my girlfriend. "Miracle" snorts, moans, wheezes, snores like a bear growling in a cave, and makes all sorts of other noises, accompanied by much flatulence through the night.

It disturbs poor Charlie enough that occasionally he will jump up on the bed with me to commiserate in our conjoined misery at all the noise.

gosh the things one will put up with for love.

Posted by retrocop | August 18, 2007 12:55 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 12:55

Brian_Thorn

Well Rachel I hope you are pleased with yourself now. Poor Sunny, she has finally died of embarassment.

Have fun ;)!

Posted by Brian_Thorn | August 18, 2007 2:12 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 14:12

R.L. Hunter

Sunny's probably thinking maybe if I play dead she'll stop putting clothes on me.

Posted by R.L. Hunter | August 18, 2007 2:21 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 14:21

Michellecag

Awww she looks so adorable heh..I've never seen a dog sleep like that though,my sis has a german shepard(though I think of him as mine since I raised him the first 4 years of his life until eventually she wanted him in GA with her)
But he'll sleep on his back with his legs spread and his paws folded in front of him:)

http://img408.imageshack.us/my.php?image=picture141ofjogl3.jpg

Sunny is quite the lady though for crossing her legs lol

Posted by Michellecag | August 18, 2007 2:25 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 14:25

Don T.

Wax on! I'z closing my I'z 'cause itz my first time.

Posted by Don T. | August 18, 2007 2:25 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 14:25

Rickbert

Maybe you could fix her up on a date with Rowdy, the stuffed dog from Scrubs?

Posted by Rickbert | August 18, 2007 2:32 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 14:32

CastoCreations

Ahhhh...I love when dogs trust so fully that they're comfortable enough to sleep full on their back...totally open and without worry. Trooper Bear does that and hangs his boys out for the world to see. Luckily he has so much fur that they're hard to really see. :)

Gotta love the doggies. :)

Posted by CastoCreations | August 18, 2007 3:13 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 15:13

A Recovering Liberal

I knew she wasn't dead when I took this pic because she was snoring like an old man. Absolutely the most amusing sound I've ever heard.

LOL! A Chinese Shar-pei lived with my family for a few years, and Charlotte snored like the dickens. At times, she rivaled my stepdad in volume. Gawd, she was a great dog; I miss that fuzzy girl.

Posted by A Recovering Liberal | August 18, 2007 4:48 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 16:48

trainer

Whenever I see your dogs, I see life-sucking beasts ready on command to rip out the throats of any small woodland creatures, other wannabe local wolves, and any two-leg looking at our little rachellucas.com cross-eyed.

You dress them up and show cutsie pictures, but they still look like dogs I would want to live with my daughter.

No matter how you feel about them, and no matter how the girls feel about you...you've got a couple of serious puppies at your feet over there.

I sometimes get the feeling that they put up with your crap only because they love you dearly. I couldn't imagine them acting like that for anyone else other than mommy.

Posted by trainer | August 18, 2007 4:55 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 16:55

triticale

When Fuzz says a BAD taxidermist, I have to wonder whether he means naughty or incompetent. Either definition could be valid.

Posted by triticale | August 18, 2007 7:59 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 19:59

dogette

That belly is demanding to be scratched! When Dogliness rolls over like that she doesn't cross her feet (she's not very dainty sometimes, what with the snoring and the farts -- oh well).

Instead, she splays herself wide open like she's in for a pelvic exam. Then she streeeeeeetches to elongate her already long self as you scratch her and say stupid things like "Someone wants a scratchin'! Yes she does! Someone wants a scratchin'! Look at that cute little girly-gut!"

Come to think of it, she looks something like a split chicken on a spit inside those metal overs at supermarket delis.

PS: Don't think I didn't notice and appreciate that CUTE LITTLE SNAGGLETOOTH hanging outta Sunny's face in the photo.

Posted by dogette | August 18, 2007 8:23 PM

Posted on August 18, 2007 20:23

Fuzz Martin

@trit... maybe naughty AND incompetent? :D

Posted by Fuzz Martin | August 19, 2007 1:09 AM

Posted on August 19, 2007 01:09

Do dogs ever dream that they're flying? If so, she could just be in the middle of an Immelmann turn.

Posted by HT | August 19, 2007 9:51 AM

Posted on August 19, 2007 09:51

Mo K.