It’s Friday!
Do the Friday dance!
No? No? Apparently Sadie isn’t feeling quite as enthusiastic about the upcoming weekend as most of us out there. She knows I’m about to leave for work and is being dramatic and sulking in bed.
Sadie can always tell when we’re about to leave the house. First, whenever I start putting on my shoes, she starts sulking. She gives me her sad puppy eyes.
Then, when I grab my car keys, she starts freaking out and runs around the house in circles. As I head for the door, she meets me there, her eyes hopeful and tail wagging. There’s a glimmer of hope remaining inside her that she clings to, believing that maybe she gets to come along.
And then I say my usual goodbyes and reality sets in. She retreats back to the bedroom to sulk again. She’s such a (ridiculously adorable) little stinker.
Breakfast
I wasn’t in the mood to go grocery shopping when I went to Publix this week and as a result I left the grocery store without a ton of food. There wasn’t much to choose from for breakfast this morning, so I went with an egg, cheese, sausage and spinach scramble.
It was good, but I was really in the mood for a big yogurt bowl with fruit and peanut butter granola. Tomorrow, perhaps?
I also had a hot cup of frothy coffee on the side that I sipped on while typing up this blog post.
Yum!
Of Possible Interest
- A Collection of Tabata Workouts (FitSugar.com)
- Sweet Potato Fries Recipe (FitBottomedEats.com)
- 17 Animals That Don’t Even Know What Just Happened To Them (BuzzFeed.com)
Question of the Morning
- Can your pet tell when you are leaving? Do they do anything unusual?
![\"Quantcast\"/](\"//pixel.quantserve.com/pixel/p-1e3-7hOJ_U8Bg.gif\")
When I’m packing to leave for college my kitty, Molly, will sit on my bed and just watch me pack with this disapproving look like, “oh, you’re leaving again? Fine fine it’s not like I care anyways.” Hahaha she’s a diva 🙂
Poor Sadie! Mornings must be so tough, I’m sure she’s thankful it’s almost the weekend and you guys will be home. 😉
Dr. Jones, my mini schnauzer, howls when we leave (talk about feeling guilty).
Hahaha Dr.jones. Great name
🙂 Full name is Dr. Indiana Jones…we call him Jonesie for short
Aww how do you leave those puppy dog eyes? Sadie is so cute 🙂
Poor little Sadie lady isn’t used to having you work out of the house all day. Bentley, my doodle, usually tries to run out the door with me and when he doesn’t succeed he just stands there and cries. It makes me feel so bad to leave him.
Aww sadie is SO cute!! and that coffee is reminding me it’s time for my 2nd cup 🙂
On a daily basis our cat does not care really but when we pull out the suitcases she hides in them and follows us everywhere. Then right before we leave she wants nothing to do with us! So silly 🙂
I love your pictures of Sadie. She is absolutely adorable! 🙂
I read/watched that 17 Animals thing on Buzz Feed yesterday and someone at my office had to come check on me because I was laughing so hard. I could not handle it. Happy Friday!
My dog always knows if I am going on a run. It’s like he knows my outfits. He also just gets to come on car rides, a lot, so he ALWAYS hopes that he gets to come along…it crushes my soul every time I see the excitement on his face and knowing he doesn’t actually get to come.
My dog can totally tell and he always gets a treat when I leave the house, so he follows me around until he gets his treat. Have a great weekend!!
I hate when I go grocery shopping when I’m not hungry, nothing looks appetizing. If I don’t follow a list then I don’t come home with much either.
I love your breakfasts, seems always very tasty! I’m from Spain and here the breakfast is not so important, coffee, tea, toast, yogurt… boring, the egg sandwich with jelly and cheese, the overnight oats and breakfast as you have done today doesn’t exist! Unfortunatly… but I’m doing your recipes Julie, and I love them 🙂
I have a puppy, Luca, and we have been crate training him but he knows as soon as I grab a big handful of treats in the morning and start walking back to our bedroom he’ll follow me for the treats but when he sees the crate he just backs away… he’s so little right now I can pick him up and just put him in but he’s going to be HUGE shortly and will be impossible. As soon as I get him in he cries and barks and it’s so sad!! So don’t feel too bad Sadie seems pretty calm!
I personally loved Sadie’s sleepy eye picture on instagram… hilarious.
My pup gets super whiney as soon as we start to put our shoes on—even if we aren’t leaving! He gets so excited about the potential opportunity to leave the house with mom and dad but so often their dreams are shattered. =) Poor guy.
My cat jumps in the suitcase and makes it extremely difficult to pack. It happens every time we are going somewhere!
My dog, Ellie, just accepts her fate and goes to her crate. She’ll just sit there waiting for you to lock the door to it.
Im going out of town twice in May, once for BLEND and once for A family trip to FLorida and my dog Lily always knows when we are leaving, she gets the sad face…It makes me feel so bad!
If I’m just leaving for work or errands my dog sits and patiently waits for his treat, yes I spoil him and give him a treat anytime I leave. I know, I know. If I’m leaving for a business trip or vacation and he sees my suitcase its a different story, I get the sad puppy/ guilt trip eyes just like Sadie. Breaks my heart!
Seeing your bed in that post reminded me that (I don’t think) we’ve “seen” how the bed looked all set up in. I remember when it arrived and I loved the look & style, but wondered how it would look with furniture that it didn’t come with as a full set. Would love a “tour” of the bedroom to see how it all came together!
My spoiled corgi, Allie, will stand with her nose practically against the door whenever me and my boyfriend are leaving the house. And if we’re not careful she darts right out. Whenever she can tell we’re about to leave she tries to intimidate us by staring at us and growling. She’s so sassy!!
I don’t think my kitties can tell, but they certainly act differently when we return. They’re either angry and keep acting up or super lovey-dovey. Cleo in particular just walks around with these howl-like meows when she’s really mad. It’s pitiful, really.
Happy Friday!
My little dog runs and hides when he thinks we are leaving. Me and my husband work from home, so we are here most days, but when we are getting ready to leave or even just pick up our car keys, he takes off. He always has those big sad eyes as when I go find him. It’s crazy how much personality dogs have!
She’s got you wrapped around her finger. Just wait til you have babies!
Do the friday dance is right!! it’s my last day of classes, last day of work, and me and my 21+ friends are having blend-your-own margaritas!!! so excited!!
my dog always knew we were leaving and would flip out and then cry. when he got older he had doggie dimensia and would howl after we left 🙁
oh boy does my dog know the routine in the morning now. If I let him off the leash in the house after taking him out before work he sprints and hides under the table because he knows he is about to get locked up! We have to carry him into the crate because he is so resistant!
Aw, Sadie is the cutest! I have a cat, and he doesn’t care one bit when I leave 😉
oh my brother’s dog does the same thing when I leave! When she sees me put on my coat she gets all sad and just sits/lays there staring at me like I’ve just broken her heart!
I love how you can read Sadie’s emotions through her face! My dog is easy to read sometimes, but sometimes, he just stares at me and I have no idea what he’s thinking.
We have a routine when we leave the house. We ask if he wants a treat, sit him on his bed and he merrily eats his treat.
The issue with our dog is “sleeper’s guilt.” He likes to wake us up at 5:45 and whine to make us feel guilty that we are not up playing with him!
Poor Sadie! My Max always gives me those big puppy eyes when he knows I’m leaving. He is the best at the guilt trip!
Kostas tries to climb into suitcases/duffle bags!! And he’s a 90 lb Lab.
Love your description of Sadie when you leave. Louie just stares at me with those big Shih Tzu eyes. It breaks my heart!
I just bought that same mug with my new last initial! Gotta love anthro
Sounds exactly like my dog! The guilt is a killer and the sad pouty face doesn’t help! My dog can even do a pouty lip for gosh sakes!! I call it her froggy lip. So when she busts out the lip I have to tell her to ‘put her froggy lip away!’ I wish we lived in a world where our fur babies could go everywhere with us!! “)
My pup, Puddin’, definitely gives us the saddest looks when she knows we’re leaving her for the day. I desperately want to adopt a friend for her, but my boyfriend says no 🙁
This is too funny. Her facial expressions are absolutely to die for.
My dog Mila reacts to us leaving the house in different ways. You won’t believe this, but it depends on what shoes I put on! If i put on slippers, heels, flats, etc, she’ll run over to her kennel, open the door with the push of her nose, and get in, waiting for me to come close the door behind her.
If I put on my sneakers, she FLIPS out. Runs back and forth from me sitting in the chair to the front door and back about a thousand times. She’ll stand in front of me and stomp her feet impatiently waiting for me to get her leash and put it on. Breaks my heart when there are those times that I’m not lacing up to take her out, because she looks SO disappointed.
Our other dog, Luna, just kind of wanders around following Mila during either scenario. She’s too cute.
My dog does the same thing when I grab my shoes. Considering I bring him everywhere with me and he’s by my side 24/7… If I leave for a Doctor’s appointment or tutoring session all hell breaks loose. I left yesterday and he started CRYING and scratching our garage door. I felt SO bad. Also, he has adapted to looking out our front windows when I leave… So I see him at the front window and he watches me until he can’t see my car anymore. IT BREAKS MY HEART. I could cry. Haha. I’m such a sucker for his puppy eyes! Glad I’m not the only one who feels bad 😉
Aw Sadie must miss you since she’s used to you working from home. My dog will follow me to the door and then just stare at me haha. Then she gives up and lays down.
My puppies freak out whenever someone in our house gets out a suitcase. They like having all of their humans home at night. ;p
That poor baby…My sister has a toy poodle that we believe is human and she does almost the same thing except now she’s too old to do the run in circles thing, so she just goes to this one place on the couch and buries her face where you can’t see her like she’s totally ignoring you.
Our dogs can definitely tell when we’re about to leave! If we put on our workout gear and tennis shoes, they immediately get excited thinking it’s a walk. The times that it isn’t a walk, they start to sulk, go to their bed, and look all sad. It cracks me up!
My dog is so funny. Whenever I get my purse and shoes and head towards the door, one of 2 things happens. I either say ‘You ready?!’ and he gets all excited and knows he is going or I say ‘I’ll be back’ and he gets all sad and his tail stops waggin. He so precious!
How did you teach Sadie to not be crazy in the house when your gone??
The one time we tried not to leave our dog Clyde in the kennel he jumped on the counter and broke a bunch of glasses!
Poor Sadie! My friends’ dog totally freaks out when they leave the house. It’s amazing that they can sense these things!
Sadie has such a personality! Our Jehu is crate trained and he knows he gets a treat when he goes in his “bedroom” when we leave so he can care less!! When we move, however, which used to be often because of my husband’s job, as soon as he would start seeing the moving boxes, he would just cry and cry and get soooo nervous. He always came with us of course but he does not like all the commotion with moving! BTW, who won the Mothers Day giveaway? I must have missed that post!!
What kind of breakfast sausage do you use?? I love Applegate’s, but yours look larger..
Our dachshund starts to whine and cry and loses his mind when we leave… I think he thinks we’re not coming back. He just gets incredibly anxious and starts running between you and the door and wimpering. It’s so heartbreaking.
Penny has her spot on the top of the couch where she always lays, and every time she sees us getting ready to leave (it usually happens when we’re putting on our shoes, too) she hops down from that spot onto the couch and starts chasing her tail in circles. And then she plants herself by the door, nose approximately an inch from the floor, like she can smell freedom. When we leave her, I swear she goes and pouts in the corner. But we love her!
The last thing I do before I leave for work each morning is put my makeup on, and every single day my dog comes in the bathroom at that time and sits on my feet. 🙂