Sleepers and the Theory of Two

Readlarrypowell.com is always looking for photos of slumbering critters to post on weekends in our long-running feature Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap.
As luck would have it, we found this one as the week was drawing to a close, after writing about Dallas’ attempts to work with roaming dogs and the challenges of Oklahoma animals from Tulsa cats to the critters that Terry Lynn Fisher is trying to help in Western Oklahoma’s spaceport city, Burns Flat*. 

Anyway, I was working on a story about one of my favorite groups, Take Me Home Pet Rescue, and found that photo online at the group's website HERE.  I don’t know anything about these two dogs except that I envy their ability to snooze in tandem -- no elbows. And they have cute names -- Bandit and Hobbs. If they're adoptables, I hope someone takes them into the same home.
This picture reminded me of something I haven’t written about in a while: the joy of living with more than one dog. It’s fun. I would call it the "Theory of Two" except that, as many rescuers can tell you, two isn't likely. Pick a higher number, right? Three maybe. Four. Look, if you’ve only ever had one dog at a time, you don’t really understand the difference in personalities. “Dog” doesn’t mean “same.” They’re as individual as human beings and, usually, twice as nice and a zillion times more forgiving. 
Can I get an amen and a couple of “youbet” barks.
And to skeptics who think all dogs are alike: Hah. We’ve got a Rottie, Texas Earl the Cheeseman, who doesn’t like peanut butter. Only dog I’ve ever known who didn’t. OK by me. I’ll eat his share. Our late dog, Cosmo, loved lettuce. (That’s Earl helping me drive. He likes to sit up high.)
[To nominate your slumbering critters for the spotlight of Let Sleeping Dogs Lie & Napping Cats Nap, send photos and info to [email protected]. We’re proud to present these photos in support of insomniacs, the people who, in general, are being kept awake nights by the 2016 Presidential Campaign.

*In the meantime, yes, Burns Flat, Okla., is the Sooner State’s Spaceport -- I’m not kidding and here is THE LINK. And, I swear, if space aliens land in Burns Flat and dump their intergalactic animals, you can bet Terry Lynn will be wrangling them and trying to get people to help ship them to safe states or planets.]
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