(144) Dog Pile!

Have you considered all of the meanings of the words Dog pile? So… What’s a dog pile? Is it the game we use to play when we were young children in the late summer evenings? When we would designate one person to hide and then the rest of us would look for them and then yell, “dog pile”, which would bring everyone else running to pile on top of the hiding person? Or how about the super search engine that uses Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com all at once to find the most information possible in the shortest possible time? Is a dog pile what your dog leaves for you in the back yard or on a walk? Then again, if numerous people respond unfavorably to an internet posting they are said to dog pile the person they are responding to.So there a a number of definitions now for dog pile. Originially dog pile did mean dogs in a pile.

When Beeker and Max get rough housing and playing full body contact they get to the point that they collapse together and just lay there out of breath and energy. Sometimes when they are at the dog park, playing with other dogs, they will be focusing so hard on their play they collide together. I call this a dog pile.

Sometimes puppies and kittens will dog pile to keep warm and safe. This is the definition that we encounter most at our house. Usually where ever Brad or I am we find the dogs and the cat with us. Chez enjoys getting as close to me as possible and I mean up close touching my side or neck even in this incredible heat. Sometimes with all of us on the bed or couch it is just too much. Chez can shed hair at breaklight speed. He always seems to be blowing a coat.

I like our own family dog pile. We feel like a family with Max, Beeker and Chez up on the bed or all on the floor together. At times we cuddle with them and let them know we are thinking of them and pay a little attention to them after a long day. Sometimes we just hang out. Just being in close proximity, is important. It just seems natural and that’s the way it should be when there are pets in the family. We pile on the love in our own personal dog pile.