Well, those with cats are having a grand ol’ time, and I figured dog owners should get in on it. I’ll start.
I have an original tune and hand motions that go with these lyrics, by the way.
In my voice:
From the sniffer to the pooper I love you,
From the sniffer to the pooper I love you,
From the sniffer to the pooper I love you,
And every hair in between.
In dog’s “voice:” Don’t forget the tail…
In my voice: IIIIIII won’t!
In my voice:
From the puddies to the floppies I love you,
From the puddies to the floppies I love you,
From the puddies to the floppies I love you,
And every hair in between.
In dog’s voice: Don’t forget the wiskers…
In my voice: IIIIIII won’t!
(Puddies are feet and floppies are ears.)
Of course, since she’s a hound, Hound Dog by Elvis, except the instead of “You ain’t no friend of mine” I sing “And you sure are a friend of mine.”
And finally, there’s the little jingo-type ditty entitled “Butt Scratch” that gets sung when scratching the part on the back where the tail meets the body:
Buuuutt Scratch,
Buuuutt Scratch,
Everyone one loves a
Buuuutt Scratch!
Well, the dog to whom these were sung has long since passed on, but they’re just too classic to let go. The first one is to a relatively obscure tune found here (click on “Musik” for the tune itself):
Pluggy is a puppy dog
She’s black and white and smelly.
When she’s good I give her treats
And rub her on the belly.
When she’s bad
I get mad
And lock her in the closet.
Just to show me who’s the boss
She leaves a small deposit.
The second one is to the tune of " 'Tis a Gift to Be Simple":
There is food that you eat
And there is water to drink;
That should be enough
for Pluggy, I should think.
But if a creepy cockroach should Pluggy see,
Then it will get eaten, I guarantee.
Don’t - eat - the creepy crawly bugs!
The ones on the wall and the ones in the rugs.
For ea - ting - the bugs that you see
Will make you sick, I guarantee.
I used to sing to my dogs lots more than I do now. Lessee:
To my dog Bouncer (sung to the Gamera theme from MST3K):
Bouncer-y!
Bouncer-y!
Bouncer boy is really neat
He’s got little puppy feet!
We all love you Boun-cer boy!
I used to kinda chant this to my dog Sasha, who loves to swim:
Little dog, big dog
Swimmin’ in the water
Little dog, big dog,
Swimmin’ like an otter.
(It’s a take-off on something I heard in a song once, but I don’t remember what it was.)
Spuddy-buddy in place of “Rubber Ducky” when I give Spud a bath.
'Course, when I give him a bath I’m also usually drunk and singing along while blasting the soundtrack to “The Little Mermaid,” so things do get a little interesting in my house from time to time.
Oh yes! At least 3/4 of all digital pictures snapped in our house are of our cute critters. Often our sleeping cute critters. Do we really need thousands of pictures of our sleeping cute critters? No, but how can we possibly stop?
My dog died about two months ago, but when I was bathing her I’d sing “Washin’ the Dog” in the style of Muddy Waters’s “Walkin’ the Dog.” Well, actually I sang it in the style of the Rolling Stones’ version of “Walkin’ the Dog.”
And if you don’t know how to do it
I’ll show you how to wash the dog…
I scare myself (and others) when I sing so I didn’t sing to my dog much, but I tell you, she could do a rendition of Moon River that brought tears to my eyes.
God rest her soul.
I start off with a low hum , sorta like “hmmmm”, and then my dog lets out a deep rumble as he breathes out… we can keep this up for 15 minutes without getting tired! He has to be in the mood though…
My best friend sings to his mother’s dog and she (the dog) sings along with him, but only to one song. He takes the theme song from Flipper and changes the name to Missy and she joins right in with him, in almost perfect harmony. Sadly, we cannot get her to join in on any other song and if we sing Flipper using the original lyrics, she acts insulted and ignores us.
No, we’re not 15; I’m 34 and he’s 48. We just act 15 most of the time
