Wonderfully Unexpected Visitors

Since its already summer we are looking forward to several Wonderfully Unexpected Visitors (WUVs)! The other day marked the beginning with my best friend from high school stopping by unannounced as I was getting ready to leave for work. Then tonight Mom's BFF from work stopped by complete with her 10yo + 2yo Yorkies.

She rang the doorbell (duh) and of course that sent the dogs into quite the tizzy (they LOVE hearing the doorbell because that means - WUVs!). Whenever WUVs ring the doorbell Dad makes a big deal about opening the door and inevitably 1-4 dogs will run out the door depending on how many are loose in the house at the time. The good part is that their main goal is to greet the WUVs whether its the pizza man, the post man, cable guy, or someone we actually know, so once they are sniffed and cleared for entry into our home, everyone comes back inside to complete the greeting rituals.

Our dog's usual doorway greeting rituals-
Mackenzie: BARK BARK BARK sniff BARK BARK BARK sniff BARK BARK BARK x infinity
Spencer: sniff sniff OMG I NEED TO BRING A TOY TO THE HUMAN!!!!!
April: JUMP LICK JUMP JUMP JUMP LICK JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP JUMP

In this case however, since she had her two dogs there was the initial sniffing of human + dogs then Spencer went into total Terrier PLAY mode. Whenever he and April/Audrey/Mackenzie/Anyone play with him or he gets excited he starts spinning and snapping the air. So all I see when she is trying to come inside is April hopping up to kiss her, and Spencer spinning at the dogs and Mackenzie obviously barking her silly head off.

Finally they came in and I put everyone outside. Audrey was in her crate so I let her out and she did her usual wigglebutt shuffle all the way down the hallway because she knew someone was here. Once she saw that OMG THERE ARE DOGS IN MY HOUSE! she was totally comfortable with our WUV (who she has met a couple times before). She went right up to our WUV and her dogs and said hello and acted all cute and wiggly trying to get the younger Yorkie to play with her. After a few minutes I let her outside and traded for Mackenzie to come inside while everyone else stayed outside.

We gave our canine guests some of their favorite Greenies smart biscuits (and of course Mackenzie had to partake since they are our dogs fav biscuits too) and Mackenzie allowed the dog cookie jar to hang out on the coffee table without guarding it. She even let the younger Yorkie sniff her bum for several seconds. She was an incredibly gracious hostess.

I think its great that all of our dogs are so welcoming to both people and other dogs into our home. Our guests on the other hand may not always appreciate four overly friendly dogs climbing all over them and the furniture (yes, my dogs will not only JUMP on YOU, but they will also JUMP on the furniture, OMG such ill-trained dogs!) so usually we'll let them greet guests 1-2 at a time with the rest outside and/or crate and rotate. With WUVs though, since we don't know when they are coming over sometimes we will *gasp* have all 4 dogs loose in the house when they ring the doorbell. So here's to a summer filled with WUVs!!!