All Hail Guardian of the Gate, Dog Nicknames II

Awareness of the outside world. BBC: Tiny Roman dog remains found during Oxford archaeological dig, 25 July 2023. Hat tip to A.

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Part I [Dog Nicknames]

Jasmine, aka Cerberus

Rose sleeps in a closet, on a crib mattress. Jasmine sleeps at the foot of the bed, on a dog bed and pile of rugs.

Rose often feels the need for a short constitutional in the middle of the night. She’s very good about it. She crosses her dog paws until someone gets up, escorts them down the hall, waits for that someone to open the front door, trots down the ramp (mostly), does her thing, and comes back inside. Easy-peasy.

The problem is getting out of the bedroom.

Basset Hounds are long dogs. When Jas stretches out, she often blocks Rose’s path to the door.

Rose finds a slumbering Jasmine to be an impassible obstacle. Hence the nickname Cerberus, after the three-headed guardian of the gate to the underworld.

Me: C’mon Rose. It’s not that hard.

Rose: (looks up, mournful and flummoxed)

Jas: (sleeps)

Eventually, Rose will skootle through the gap at one end or the other.

Once, she jumped over the somnolent roadblock.

The struggle is real.

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Onwards!
Katherine