If I could sit around and sleep as much as my dogs do, I would be in heaven. Of course, I wouldn't have a job, my wife and daughter would probably leave me, and I'd be evicted for not paying rent, but at least I would be well rested for an afternoon of doing nothing. Ever since we got our dogs, they've made the couch, the floor, and the beds their own, sleeping and lounging for hours on end, until the mailman walks by and they have to announce his arrival with endless barking. But, they're part of the family and we'd make sure that they were always taken care of no matter what. A couple of years ago, our mixed breed, Sam, had a routine operation to remove a fatty tumor from her leg. While the surgery went fine, she developed a reaction that caused her skin on one side of her body to die. She spent nearly 2 months in the vet hospital recuperating and enduring painful skin rubs to get the dead skin off and fresh, new skin to grow back. While she made a full recovery and is fine, she doesn't have fur on that side of her body. Since we usually have to recount the whole story when a new person meets her, we've developed funny stories to explain her injury, like she saved all of us from a horrific fire, or she was getting a little too hungry around a turkey fryer, or other things like that. She was lying on the couch today and trying to fall asleep so I wanted to take her picture and attempt to get that moment. It's funny when dogs nearly fall over when they try to sleep and stay awake simultaneously. I got it at the right time and wished for another brief moment that I was in her paws about to take my 13th nap of the day.
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