My Aunt Carol bought us a Miniature Schnauzer, Pepper, as a puppy.  When she first brought it into the house my dad told my mom to cover it's eyes and blow into it's nose.  That way the dog would think you were it's mother and follow you around.  My mom said “Yeah-right” and did it.  From that day until the dog died some 15 years later it was my mothers shadow.  My mom would be in the kitchen and the dog would be right there.  She'd go to the living room and the dog would follow.  Bathroom and the dog would be right there, waiting outside the door for her to come out.  Pepper followed her everywhere.  When my mom left the house the dog would wait, looking out the windows for my moms return.  When she did get home the dog would go nuts.  Running up and down and all around the house wearing itself out.  The dog just went skitzo.  Lol  All dogs hate water, you know this right??  Pepper was no different.  Bath time was always a fight.  Well were up north one year and we have the dog with.  Were on the beach of an inland lake and my mom decides to go swimming.  She gets up and walks into the water.  Pepper follows until waters edge.  Were all looking at him saying; “No way.  He's not going into the water.  No way.  He won't do it” but the damm dog proved us all wrong.  Lol  It swam the 30 yards out to my mom.  She felt so sorry for the dog she came back onto the beach so he didn't have to be in the water.  Lol   Now Pepper was not only a good companion but a source of entertainment to Johnny and myself.  We were always coming up with new ways to torment the dog.  Lol  Much to my mothers dismay because where there was Pepper, there was mom.  Lol  One of the funny things to do was pretend we were going to spank or hit my mom.  The dog would freak.  He's growl, show his teeth, snap, bark then attack.  Lol  It would only chase us out the room then return to mom's side.   Another thing we did was “flick” Peppers nose.  Lol  You know…make the “ok” sign with your hand.  See how the finger is all tensed and ready to “flick”?  hehehe.  We only did this a few times before Pepper caught on.  Lol  All we had to do was show the dog our fingers, and say “say cheese” and Pepper would growl and show it's teeth at us.  Lol  The puppy was smiling.  Lol   And then there was “the shoe”.  Lol  Pepper HATED having a shoe put in front of it's face.  We'd do it any way.  The dog would go nuts, bite the shoe and try to rip it out of our hands.  Lol  Johnny and I were bitten too many times to count by that dog…  lol   Now don't go thinking the dog was not to blame in any of this.  Oh no-no-no.  That dog did it's fair share of tormenting us as well.  We'd be laying on the floor in the living room watching TV and Pepper would walk up behind us, nip at out head and run out of the room only to come back again when we weren't looking.  Damm thing, Ya couldn't relax and watch TV without wondering where the dog was.  Lol  Then there was the time it sank it's teeth into my dads leather chair.  Oh man…we knew we were dead after that happened.  We couldn't hide the rip marks either because they were right on the top of the arm rest.  God…a dark leather chair with white stuff coming out the dog-teeth holes.  Not good.  Lol   the dog was walking by and I reached over and grabbed it's tail and spun it around.  Well it got mad and lunged for me so I sank back in the chair.  Well the dog just had to bite something so it sank it's teeth into the arm of the chair.  Lol  My dad saw that and holy hell broke loose.  We all claimed we knew nothing about it.  No idea how that happened.  Hehehee. It wasn't us…oh no-no-no.  lol  And don't you go telling him either cuz he still don't know.  J