Clean Butt, Loving Heart

Mom said a lot of you enjoyed my perspective on the primary importance of treats, snuggles, rest, and play.  Today I will share  more priorities for living well.  

I am grateful for my humans who provide me with shelter, food, treats, and snuggles.  They do their best, and I do mine.  My job, in addition to receiving what they have to offer, is that every day, sometimes many times each day, I must clean my butt.  

I do it.  I take my job seriously and I take some joy in it too.  Both the process and the result are important to me, to my family, and to my own sense of what it means to be a healthy, worthy member of my species. 

Along with cleaning my own butt, my next duty and privilege is to maintain a loving heart.  If you are a stranger approaching, or even someone I’ve met a dozen times, I will set a loud and clear boundary with my shrillest warning bark.  I will warn you, and everyone nearby that a possible threat is upon us.  BUT, know this:  I will calm down when you exhibit non-threatening behavior, such as offering me a treat.  Or leaving.  

That is how I show my loving heart - because I bark - but never bite.  I don’t bite.  It’s my policy.  That is love.  I will jump up.  I might cause a scratch.  By Accident.  But no biting that is my loving heart.  

So, to summarize: I recommend that if you want to have a happy life like I do, keep your butt clean and don’t bite even if they really deserve it.  Keep barking and they’ll do what it takes to make it stop, eventually.  That is my experience, that is what I know.  Love, Brownie

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