Siena's Additional Eccentricities

Last night during a storm, our Internet crashed at home, so I didn't get a chance to upload photos of my Earth Day activities. Therefore, I'm posting about Siena, who is always good material. I have three items to add to her eccentric behavior list. They are as follows...

1) She's afraid of children/short old people. I like to think Siena is particularly attuned to the spiritual world because she does not like people close to the beginning or the end of the life cycle. She likes the 18 to 65 years old best. Particularly, male, huge and in a truck. She loves dudes in trucks. But give her a 8-year-old waiting on a street corner for his school bus to pick him up, and she freaks. Or, my 5-foot-tall grandparents. You'd think they were trying to kidnap her when they try to play a round of fetch with her. When it comes to Siena, the bigger and more male the better.

2) She loves planters but hates potted plants. Every time Siena plays fetch outside, she always brings the ball back to one spot in the yard: the planter. She runs over and jumps into it, dropping the ball and happily wagging her tail. Why? I have no idea. But she loves sitting and chewing in that dang planter. However, if anything happens to be growing in her planter, or any potted plant container (plants in the ground are OK for some reason, thankfully) on the premises, the offender must be destroyed, NOW.*

3) She is a compulsive yawner. The dog must yawn 12 times every morning, usually in somewhat rapid succession. Sometimes I think she does it because it's a way for her to make noise without getting in trouble (sometimes the yawn borders on a whine). But, I'm really not sure. You really do have to hear it to believe it. There's no way she's that sleepy.


*It's for this reason that Siena recently destroyed two of my mums. They were pretty much dead, but she seemed to have completely eaten both of them, leaving her with quite the upset tummy. Hopefully she learns her lesson, but I'm not holding my breath.