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to say, "Come on Mum, hurry up we are ready to move on".

Often on really cold nights, when I sit down to watch a bit of Television, Tibby climbs up on my lap and says to me with her eyes "Mum cover me up, with you please". I have a stool by the lounge Charlie gets up there and does his circles then looks at me and says "Where's my blanket, Mum". When I am sitting on the lounge tired, sometimes asleep; Charlie comes up to me, jumps, then chases for his teddy to play with and throw for him to chase. If you don't he stands there and barks until you throw the teddy for him. The other instance is Tibby when she would like me to sit on the floor so she can get on my lap, she grabs my toe and pulls my leg down, as if to say "come on Mum get on the floor with me."

Over the past eight years that we have had Tibby and Charlie, I have learned so much about doggy language, reading their ears, watching their tails, for when they are happy or sad, their body-language. When our daughters visit, Tibby and Charlie hear their cars, they are outside like a shot. When the girls leave, Tibby and Charlie look up at us with their big eyes, follow us down to the gate, wait to get picked up, to say goodbye to the kids. Tibby and Charlie have their own body language body language at the moment has been saying so much, because their brothers have been staying with us for a few days while my daughter and husband are away on holidays. Tibby mostly has been saying "Mum rescue me from these boys".

I could write so much about this topic, Tibby and Charlie, also our daughters' dogs and bunnies, just give me so much pleasure. Watching them grow, their antics. Sometimes I almost feel like a dog whisperer. I know I'm not. I just talk with my dogs and they talk with me.

Buster and Bella the bunnies of the family, even talk to you with their bodies. Getting used to bunnies is funny. They have a small antic, when you give them a treat. They come up to you, brush up against you, while waiting for a nose rub. They are getting used to me again at the moment, I am looking after them while their Mum and Dad is on holidays.

During the past two weeks I was babysitting my daughters two dogs while she was on holidays with her husband in Queensland. The only way to describe the past two weeks was to have a video going none stop in the house and we all would see how dogs communicate with humans. The video would win an Oscar for best documentary.

Today and many days as I sit typing on the computer my dogs are at my side all the time. Including when I am doing the dishes they sit beside my feet on the mat in the kitchen. When I have a sleep in the afternoon one dog is on the cushion the other is on my side, the un-said words do not matter it is the tender loving care given by both parties.

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