[Dailydrool] Perching bassets and the alpha bitch

[KR1204 at aol.com]

I think I wrote before that a few days after Jordan decided she was  
sleeping in my bed with me, she kicked Loki out. But only at night, he was  
allowed on during the day if I took a nap. I have no idea how she accomplished  
this and she will sometimes just look at him and he runs whining out of the  
room. I have never seen her make a move, show a tooth or make a sound but he  
will suddenly freeze and scoot out of the room. 
With the cooler weather, Jordan has relented and Loki is now allowed to  
sleep in the bed as long as he is there first. If not, he doesn't even dare 
come  up the stairs. 
This weekend we are having another display of who is the boss. Both Loki  
and Jordan love to perch on the arm of the  sofa where they can monitor  
almost all downstairs activity. But they don't fit at the same time  so Jordan 
will stare Loki off; Loki will run barking to the front door etc  as they 
trade places. This weekend Jordan has discovered that her crate which is  a few 
feet away is a whole inch higher than the sofa arm. Since I store the  
spare quilts and blankets on top for the dogs, she now has a loftier perch and  
looks regally at Loki. She is also now level with the pass through from the  
kitchen so she can better monitor me eating or reading the paper. 
How do they figure these things out?
Kathy with Crackers (I just ignore her), Loki (happy to be back in bed) and 
 Jordan (Look deeply into my eyes.....)
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.dailydrool.org/pipermail/dailydrool-dailydrool.org/attachments/20091101/6a090d11/attachment-0002.htm>