Macy and Atlas

Over the Fourth of July weekend Thomas, was home with his dog Atlas. When we have visitors it is very hard to find time to use my voice software and post on my blog. The software is hard to use normally and with any background noise a gets confused too easily. So I haven't posted much.

Now our son Tom is at training in Fort Knox for a month. We insisted he leave Atlas with us. He is pretty easy to take care of. During the day when I am home alone with him all he does is sleep and sometime barks at the things he hears. Yesterday was the first day we had him all day and he seemed to realize that Tommy wasn't coming back for a while. Now he pouts a lot until my wife gets home. He is very attached to her and I call him her shadow because he followers her everywhere.

We used to worry a little bit because sometimes Atlas would Lunge at Macy and we were afraid his dog nature would come out. Then last week our son Matt was here and the dog crawled across his lap to get to the cat. He did the lunge thing and we realized he was just poking her with his nose to get her to play. This dog doesn't have a bad bone in his body. He is a real sweetheart and just wants play with the kitty. It's hard to tell from this picture but the dog is almost 8 times bigger than Macy. When he curls up he looks so little.

The funniest thing is that Macy gravitates toward my wife when she gets home. Last night Macy jumped up on the same side of my wife as the dog. She usually jumps up on the opposite side and they stared each other over my wife. Strangely Macy let the dog lick her without hissing and smacking him. Maybe when my wife is here someday they will be best buddies!