Atlas – Big Teddy Bear

I think I mentioned it before but Atlas doesn't spend as much time on the bed with me at night or in the mornings since the cat is gone. I think he liked it that he got close to her and sometimes she would let him sniff her and a really likes her. Of course she pretended to never like him. Well this morning he stayed on the bed after my wife went to work and he would put his head on my foot. I think he was trying to reward me because I never scolded him yesterday for barking at weird things. I've tried scolding him but since I can't drive my chair over by him and scold him from above he just ignored me now. Yesterday I just didn't have it in me to scold him so I think that is why he cuddled with the this morning. In honor of this I will post a couple Atlas stories
he is a big old teddy bear and loves everybody. He is still a Labrador and seem to need to bark at some people were in the driveway before they get to the door. He is kind of scary if you don't know him but it is a big teddy bear once they come in. There was a guy here last week to put new batteries in my ceiling lift. Atlas scared him with his barking so when he came in he stayed away from him. Matt was here to let the guy and Andy pulled Atlas back. The guy changed the batteries and while he was in the bedroom Atlas laid on the living room floor. The guy came out of the bedroom and came halfway down the hallway and then froze. He said "he's looking at me". Atlas was lying there not to be moving and the guy was scared of him. He seemed very happy when Matt got Atlas in the guy left as quick as possible. We told him that he was a big old teddy bear but he was still afraid of them. We've never found anyone else who was afraid of him so it was kind of funny.
Atlas is pretty bright and picks up on patterns of behavior very quickly. In the afternoon I listen to music on my iPhone. Then when I see my wife pull in the driveway I use the Siri function and tell my phone to pause the music. Now when I do that Atlas runs over to the window starts barking because he was glad my wife is home. What's funny is that whenever I tell my phone to pause to music he jumps up and runs the window and barks even if there is no one out there. A few weeks ago I called up the Siri function and he started barking before I can tell it what to do and somehow his barking made by phone call a former coworker. I can't move my hands so I'm not able to hang up my phone and so went to that person's voicemail. It was kind of funny that Atlas is barking called somebody.
One more story. When the weather is right we would leave the windows open. Every day the mail lady, who was close to retiring, delivers a male and would say hide Atlas while he was barking at her. She knows he's a big sweetheart so she was ever afraid of him. One day he stopped barking at her and grabbed one of his toys and ran over to the door. He waited there for her waiting for her to open the door and play with him. Course she didn't even know he was there but it was hilarious. Is bark is so ferocious but all he really wants to do is make friends. He is pretty entertaining.