Interesting topic...nice. I agree with Donnersmom...Abby is "Joyful, loving, snugglebug, excitable on one hand and stubborn as a mule on the other!!!" She was a velcro dog but became much more independant when Brady came along. She knows what she wants and when she wants it. She knows come 9:45 p.m. that she should be snuggled up on the couch with us and help us all if she is not. She will sit at the baby gate in the kitchen and CRY until we finally go snuggle with her. If she doesn't want to do something that we want her to, she sits down in a huff, puffs out her chest and shows us those cute lower teeth by pouting.
She can be superexcited and tends to run boxer burns once in the a.m. and once in the p.m. with this look on her face like
she's laughing her way around the world. Brady tries to keep up, but can't and just chases after her barking, like, hey, come on!!! On the other hand, when Abby is out, she is out! Getting to go out before bed and in the a.m. can be a weight lifting exercise as it requires carrying her to the door (and sometimes right out the door) while she is dead weight.
She is super lovey and loves hugs from all, including strangers. And she is quite the talker lately, obnoxiously so.
Brady, our cocker, started his life in our home as being very distant. While he would occassionally act as my slippers, for the most part, he had no interest in love from us. WOW! has that changed. He is now SUCH a velcro dog to me. He is in love with his mama and would follow me to the end of the world. He LOVES to play outside, right now, he love it when I rake him a huge pile of leaves to jump in, in the winter he loves catching snowballs, in the summer he loves catching water from the hose. We think he may have been an outdoor dog with his past family as he will sit outside for hours just watchign the grass grow. The minute I bring him in, he wants to go back out, but I do get such a pathetic look when I cannot sit out there with him (sometimes I just put him on the runner and he sits on the step watching that grass grow). He loves to chew on Abby's back leg in the morning and while he will put his nose to mine and just stare at me for hours (he does this every day for a few minutes but I have caught him doing this for long periods of time while I sleep), he has no real interest in getting love from strangers (including those "strangers" who see him almost every day, like our parents), just from my hubby and me.
Overall, we have two mushes, just in different ways.