Several years ago a good friend gave me a pair of brand new slippers for my birthday. I didn’t think I really needed slippers, but when I started wearing them, I thought, “Darn! These are comfortable.”
Over time I became attached to them, and Emma realized this. Now we had a competition over possession of the slippers.
I should have remembered what happened to my Birkenstocks when she was just a puppy and she ate the straps right out of one of them.
“Did I do good, MA? Huh? Huh?”
She has outgrown the chewing habit, but she still likes to take a little nibble if the flavour is especially good.
So if she only nibbles a bit, how did the slippers get like this?
Well, she knows I need my slippers in the morning, and when she wants me to get up, she brings ONE of them to the bedside. This may be after she has slept on it.
And who knows where the other one is?
So the conversation with the dog goes like this,” Thank you!” (which is what I have to say to make her give it up – she has me trained). Then I say, “Go get the other one.”
She runs around the house to wherever she left the slipper and brings it back to me.
Then she makes me beg for it and say, “Thank you!”
After five years of nibbling and fetching, my slippers have changed shape somewhat.
Do you think I need new slippers?
April 18, 2020 at 2:08 pm
Well trained doggie. Btw, we’ve never had that “shoe-problem” with our doggies.
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April 18, 2020 at 2:11 pm
You just don’t have “the flavour.”
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April 18, 2020 at 2:15 pm
LOL!
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April 18, 2020 at 2:15 pm
OM Gosh, she’s sooo adorable!! Yes, you need a new pair but the new ones should be locked up in a safe! Why do I wanna call them House Shoes??
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April 18, 2020 at 2:48 pm
The German way of saying slippers – Hausschuhe.
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April 18, 2020 at 2:53 pm
I never heard that one before.
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April 18, 2020 at 3:02 pm
Yup! That’s what they’re called, but most of them are in better shape than mine. 😉
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April 18, 2020 at 3:23 pm
Such a sweet little pup, that Emma! Yes, I am not sure which one of you is the trainer or the trainee. What a wonderful story and photos too.
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April 18, 2020 at 4:01 pm
I think she has the whole household trained. 😉
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April 18, 2020 at 3:54 pm
Oh that sweet face! Surely they are just wearing out. She’s protecting them for you. She would never chew them!
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April 18, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Actually, she doesn’t anymore but she’s responsible for most of the damage. I don’t know why I keep her around!
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April 18, 2020 at 4:07 pm
🤣🤣🤣
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April 18, 2020 at 4:49 pm
She’s a clever one. I could never figure out, what’s with dogs and slippers. 😏
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April 18, 2020 at 5:43 pm
I’m not sure either, but they know when you need your slippers and love to get attention by playing keep-away.
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April 18, 2020 at 5:29 pm
I just love dogs. :). She is adorable and loves you so much!!
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April 18, 2020 at 5:44 pm
She does and the feeling is mutual, as I’m sure you’ve guessed.
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April 18, 2020 at 5:51 pm
Yes I can tell. There is nothing quite like having a sweet dog to love.
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April 18, 2020 at 6:54 pm
Quite right, Elizabeth. Do you have any pets?
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April 18, 2020 at 7:45 pm
Yes. I have two dogs and two cats. They bring a lot of life to our home. 🙂
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April 18, 2020 at 11:39 pm
That’s great! We had two cats and one dog. The cats lived to be very old and were well loved, and now we have two dogs and no cats.
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April 18, 2020 at 10:10 pm
You might need some new ones. 😉 None of my dogs ever did that.
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April 18, 2020 at 11:38 pm
Emma was the worst for chewing slippers, but Ruby is responsible for crushing both lenses of a pair of prescription glasses, eating a ballpoint pen, and stealing and losing an expensive pocket knife.
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April 19, 2020 at 12:12 am
And, what´s wrong with them? Emma just made them to fit you perfect …
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April 19, 2020 at 9:09 am
They go with my personality too, I suppose!
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April 19, 2020 at 1:15 am
After five years, I think the slippers are holding up pretty well.
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April 19, 2020 at 9:09 am
They’re old beaters now, but I really don’t want to part with them.
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April 21, 2020 at 9:59 am
I noticed (in my email) that you left a comment on my Comfort Food post, Jill, but I can’t get it to show up on the actual post. There have been a couple of glitches in WordPress this morning so maybe they will fix whatever the problem is. Thanks for the comment and I’ll respond when it shows up.
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April 21, 2020 at 12:18 pm
No worries, Anneli. WordPress does have its moments, doesn’t it? Stay well!
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April 19, 2020 at 8:34 am
What’s the worth of a pair of slippers, compared to the happiness of a dog 🙂
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April 19, 2020 at 9:08 am
Yes, that’s so true Hans.
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April 19, 2020 at 10:27 am
Oh nooo. Your favorites and they’re done for. 🤦♀️We’re lucky, neither of our dogs ever went for shoes. Your command to Emma reminded me of Max. Whenever we needed him to go get two of something (like tennis balls), we used to say “go get the other one,” and he’d go racing off to find it and bring it back.
Piezon, on the other hand, used to pick things up and hand them to me when I dropped them. I’d say “oops,” and he’d come running to help out.
It’s brutal being locked away without any dogs. I can’t even go up to dogs in the neighborhood when people walk them because of social distancing. 😞 Traveling was put on hold, and may be canceled altogether. I don’t know.
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April 19, 2020 at 11:36 am
It won’t be forever. I think it’s good to have pets during this time – for the most part – but they do tie you down. Everything you plan, you have to think about how the dogs will fit in. But we love them so we make our plans around them. You’ll have another dog when this is over, Lori, and times will be happier again.
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April 20, 2020 at 10:16 am
Yes, time for new slippers, Anneli. But I’m sure the game of fetch will continue.
And your slippers look like mine. Do you wear them outside, like I do? Or is it all the dog-attention that has them in tatters? Lol.
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April 20, 2020 at 10:42 am
I do wear them inside and out, just give the rubber soles a quick rinse, but I don’t wear them for working in the garden or “hard wear” kind of jobs – only for taking the dogs out to do their business in the backyard – that kind of thing. The wear and tear on them is mostly due to Emma’s attentions when she was little, and then a bit of “fetching wear.” She’s not a chewer anymore, but she sure was when she was little. The trouble is that these slippers are so comfortable I don’t want to give them up. I even considered taking a big needle and sewing them back together if they started to fall off my feet! It’s not like I can’t afford new slippers, but where would I find another pair like this?!;-)
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April 20, 2020 at 11:10 am
Ha. I can relate! 😀 I’ll bet you can stitch them together – get really strong thread and an awl! Lol.
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April 20, 2020 at 1:12 pm
I just might do that. But not just yet. They’re still hanging on by a few threads.
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April 20, 2020 at 11:16 am
The puppet is soo cute 💖
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April 20, 2020 at 1:12 pm
Thanks, she is a sweetheart.
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April 21, 2020 at 7:53 am
Where’s the button to click for I LOVE this? She’s so smart!!
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April 21, 2020 at 9:27 am
Thanks so much for that enthusiastic endorsement, Suzanne. Enjoy your week!
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June 20, 2020 at 7:43 pm
this just popped up as a suggested post on wordpress and I had to come look because your dog looks just like my dog, except mine doesn’t have a white spot on her nose. It was so uncanny I showed my family and they were all surprised. Our dog is a cockapoo/shetland sheepdog mix and so far she hasn’t chewed any slippers.
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June 20, 2020 at 8:11 pm
I’m so glad you checked out my post, Lisa. Isn’t that something about our dogs? We just love our Emma to pieces (even if she did wreck my slippers). So nice that you checked out my blog.
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June 20, 2020 at 8:13 pm
I’ll have to poke around some more. Our dog is named Zooma (long story on that one) and she is the sweetest dog. We just moved and our neighbors have essentially adopted her as their own because she just walks into their yards like she lives there too.
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June 20, 2020 at 8:15 pm
They sound very much the same. Thanks for your visit and I hope you find some other posts you like, too.
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July 4, 2020 at 11:11 am
She’s so cute. Those slippers still look pretty comfy. No wonder you both like them so much.
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July 4, 2020 at 11:13 am
The slippers gave up the ghost soon afterwards, mostly from being fetched for me too many times. But oh yes, I miss those comfy slippers.
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July 4, 2020 at 11:20 am
Well, at least they lasted a few years! My mom used to call hers bedroom slippers. 😀
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December 12, 2022 at 7:46 am
Wow! I would say good job, but that was near destruction!
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December 12, 2022 at 7:47 am
The shoe repair guy fixed the Birks (almost like new) but the slippers went to Slipper Heaven.
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