
Two Years of Pascale
I missed Pascale’s “gotcha’ date with everything that’s been going on around here, but felt it a necessary break of sadness and stress to celebrate my gangly black panther dog.
As a furbaby mother, I shouldn’t pick favorites. I should love all my babies equally and cherish them in their own individual ways.
But I don’t. Pascale is my favorite. She is best dog, and I even tell this to Eliot quite frequently. I will always adore Eliot and he’s my favorite Springer Spaniel, but Pascale is best dog.

She’s kind of like a Dr. Seuss book. I can take her in the yard. I can take her in the car. I can take her to the bar. I can take her near and far.
She likes the other dogs. She likes to chase at frogs. She likes young boys and girls. She likes to dance and twirl.
As I’m a fan of memes, I felt like this one pretty accurately summed up what it’s like to live with Pascale:
Black is an appropriate color for her, because she is my shadow. The ONLY thing that makes her upset is when I shut the door of my bedroom in my apartment. You know, so I might enjoy sleeping without a 60 lb dog spooning me from time to time. When she’s shut out, she whines and pouts and lays outside my room so dramatically that I can hear a loud thump against the door before her broken hearted sigh.

I should add that everything else in life besides being locked outside the door, makes Pascale deliriously happy. Everything.

Eliot is a bit of a loose canon, but Pascale has been able to adapt fabulously to him. She will approach him with a happy wag, but at the first sign that he’s getting annoyed with her she will instantly flop upside down in front of him as if to say “WILL YOU BE MY FRIEND NOW? DOES THIS HELP? I LOVE YOU!” They even wrestle some now, which says more about Pascale’s interpersonal dog skills than it does about Eliot’s behavioral improvement.

One of the reasons I took her home begged Tim to let me keep her, is that I wanted a barn dog. If you can overlook her tendency to eat horse manure (mmmm delicious), she is a great friend to have at the barn. While I warmup Simon, she’ll follow me in laps around the ring until she’s used up some excess energy. Then she’ll lay in the soft sand (usually in a hole she’s dug) outside of the ring and watch me as I go. You can see her in the background of a lot of my pictures, my favorite being this one:

Pascale is a perpetual puppy – still slightly naughty and full of energy. She’s very in tune with me and my feelings though, which makes up for the challenges of having a hyper dog. While Eliot has gotten a bit aloof and moody in his old age, Pascale will always come snuggle me. Usually I don’t have to call her, because she’s just there by my side. When I need a dog kiss I barely get her name out of my mouth before she’s right there staring at me with her little pitty face.

She’s a gangly, two year old “Manor Black Dog” and she’s a great friend to me.
30 thoughts on “Two Years of Pascale”
I love this. All of it. Happy belated Gotcha Day to you and Pasquale!
Love it!! Pascale IS Best Dog. What a sweetheart.
I’m so glad she found you. Her best friend lily is not so glad, but pascale really is the best.
One day Lily will love her!
My barn dogs loves poop too. Pascale sounds like a fabulous canine companion 🙂
Yay Pascale! She sounds like an awesome dog and barn partner<3
I should take lessons in being happy from her 🙂
I have been trying, but it’s hard to pick it up!
Love, love, love! Aren’t barn dogs the best??!!
awwww! I LOVE with post! What a good pup!
OMG. That face! The last pic = <3. There is nothing in the world like having a great dog!
Pitties really are the best at being deliriously happy. And your shadow. I have a barn pitty…but she’s my brother’s dog. 🙂 Happy two years of puppylove!
I just love her little face. How could you ever tell it no?
It doesn’t get told no very often!
I loved the Dr. Seuss bit. 🙂 I’ve got my own little rhyme with Thing 1 and Thing 2!
Such a wonderful tribute to a beloved pet.
LOL I kind of like it when they stay naughty puppies forever!
Such a good dog! I wish mine could come to the barn.
I’m glad you and Pascale found each other 🙂
🙂 This is how my bonus dog is, minus the “good barn dog” part. He’s adorable and ridiculous and a bastard and he loves me and his earnesty always makes me smile, even when it’s the umpteeth set of flip flops he’s destroyed. I think they come to us for a reason.
Aw, she has such a sweet face. Happy 2 years, Pascale 🙂
Your black puppy and my black puppy are literally the same puppy. They need to meet and frolic around together in perpetual happiness.
She is just too cute! So glad you found her 🙂
Pascale is awesome! I love watching the videos you post of her, she’s just so happy all the time. I want to squish her!
aww yay Pascale – congrats on 2 yrs with Best Dog!! also, i’ve never noticed her in a riding pic before but feel like now it’ll be like southpark’s alien – it’s always there somewhere ya just gotta look for it. so now i’ll always be looking for Pascale in your pics haha
You literally put a smile on my face with the dr Seuss verses! And that picture of her “helping” Simon jump is THE ABSOLUTE CUTEST. Side note: I don’t think I’ve ever met a dog that didn’t try and eat horses poop so I wouldn’t put that against her 😉 They all seem to find it ridiculously tasty and at the same they know they being bad when they do it!
LOVE this! The Dr. Seuss bit is genius, too! 😉 Happy Gotcha Day Pascale! You are both very lucky to have found one another. Heart dogs are the best. <3
What a perfect companion and friend. Pascale has a very high EQ for people and dogs. Interesting.
Omg. Love love love this post. Pascale makes me smile anytime you talk about her or post pictures. I love the one of her with her purple dragon toy.
Awww, love her!
Happy 2yrs! She’s so cute you can’t help but smile. What a perfect companion.