Today I’m walking Bella around the lake when we see a woman with a dog that looks JUST LIKE BELLA!
Bella hunkers down and starts the belly crawl that signals to the other dog I WANT TO PLAY! And I begin chatting with the woman.
“Is she a Wheaten Terrier?” I ask, nodding at her dog, which is happily sniffing Bella.
“No, she’s a Golden Doodle,” she says, “Isn’t it funny how similar they look?”
Yes, funny.
And just like that the circle is complete.
Oh, I don’t mean the Lion King circle with the birthing and the eating and the dying… I mean the circle in which if you mock something you are destined to become it.
Ahem.
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November 24, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Ha. You are now properly initiated as a dog owner.
November 24, 2008 at 12:55 pm
lol, this gave me a case of the giggles. I think, had it been me, there would have been a case of *facepalm*.
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November 24, 2008 at 1:52 pm
well, whatever Bella is, she is darn cute. I mean, I believe you that she is a terrier whatever… :D
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November 24, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Sounds like fate wanted you to see how similar they really did look…or some other crazy force of nature.
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November 24, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Sorry, but that is too funny. Murphy’s Law or something?!
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November 24, 2008 at 3:55 pm
The universe is messing with you.
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November 24, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Oh! The humanity!!
;)
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November 24, 2008 at 8:00 pm
bahahahaha
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November 24, 2008 at 8:03 pm
LMBO! You poor thing. Did you walk away thinking to yourself “I did NOT just do that…”??
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November 24, 2008 at 9:27 pm
Oh good! :) Now I don’t feel so bad that I was likely one of the first annoying people to ask if it was a Goldendoodle! Either way, she’s VERY cute!
November 24, 2008 at 9:50 pm
yeah. I’ve had similar experiences only they were kid related. There are times when even just thinking certain thoughts makes me stop and say “is that the universe laughing at me?”
November 24, 2008 at 10:15 pm
Ha! Methinks you’re destined to replay this scenario *many many* times in the future…you can practice your snappy replies at home (or here on the blog)
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November 25, 2008 at 12:42 am
Yeah, you might as well get used to it…hehehehehe
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November 25, 2008 at 4:37 am
They DO look an awful lot alike. A true dog nut would have said how much better wheaten Terriers were than goldendoodles, but you’re not at that snobbiness level. And not likely to get there with experiences like these…
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November 25, 2008 at 6:03 am
Did you name her after Twilight?
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November 25, 2008 at 12:13 pm
No! I have to protest total ignorance of the book OR the move. In fact, people keep leaving me comments saying, “did you name her after the movie” and I’m all, “What movie? Bolt? What’s going on here?” Thanks for clearing up THAT confusion! ;)
November 25, 2008 at 2:45 pm
took ya long enuf!
i had a friend in juneau who would intentionally parade her big white Pyrenees where the cruise ships would dock and she took all those questions over and over again (she was weird that way): what kind? how old? girl or boy? what her name? how much does she weigh? she was gonna make a sign with answers.
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November 26, 2008 at 7:51 am
hehe.
Dogs humble us, don’t they?
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November 26, 2008 at 11:13 am
Maybe you just need one of those signs you wrote about recently. :)
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November 26, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Doh! I hate when that happens.
Well, I mean when stuff like that happens. I don’t have a Wheaton Terrier or a Golden Poodle . . . :)
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November 30, 2008 at 9:07 pm
Oh how funny! I didn’t know what either looked like until I googled for pictures.
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December 1, 2008 at 10:57 am
Good thing you have all these other know-it-alls to tell you otherwise you may know nothing. (snicker) People are funny.
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December 1, 2008 at 12:47 pm
*Snort*
December 6, 2008 at 3:42 am
I had to laugh–and commiserate. People are funny about dogs, but YOU know what a treasure you have. I guess they want to connect with a “kindred spirit”. I have a wonderful, purebred German Shepherd. He is the smartest, sweetest shepherd I have ever had (4 total). But people keep asking me if I got him at the pound. Why? because he has every physical flaw a pedigreed dog can have, all rolled up into one absolutely precious animal. For starters, his ears don’t stand up. They are floppy, like a possum’s, and he has an underbite and crooked teeth. He has white fur around his mouth to the point that we sometimes call him “Got Milk?” His tail has a decided kink, and lists to the left. He was originally cast as a police dog, but he just didn’t look the part, and, like Ferdinand the Bull, he was too gentle to really get into the K-9 stuff. So he was retired to our little farm, where he herds chickens and protects them from the hungry fox. The show ring’s loss was our gain!
Grandma Judy