Skeeter and Scylla

So, I have two dogs, and their names are Skeeter and Scylla. We aren't quite sure what Skeeter is, because he's a mutt from the pound, but everyone who sees him says that he's a beautiful dog, and we suspect he is part collie and part terrier of some kind. Recently he killed a mouse, so that's where we think the terrier comes in. He's way smaller than Scylla, who is a pure-bred Rhodesian Ridgeback, and he is the sweetest dog in the world, even though he's a little too submissive. (He flips over onto his back whenever you try to pet him. It's annoying.) I think his favorite person in my family is me, since he will always come when I call him and he likes to sit next to me.

Scylla, on the other hand, is just as stubborn as Skeeter is sweet. She is also a beautiful dog, and very smart, but she's extremely thick-headed about certain things. For instance, she ran into barbed wire and gouged this hole in her leg, so now she has this enormous scar, and she was eating chicken bones out of the garbage can recently. She's also pretty sweet too, and a huge moocher. Since she's a hound dog, she has that mournful expression that makes you want to hug her, and she's rather patient, to a degree. She's only about a year old, so she loves to play, but Skeeter is older than her (four years old) and doesn't always want to go along with it.

They are decent guard dogs, with Scylla barking at you if you come up the stairs and she doesn't remember that you have been in the house since the morning, and Skeeter barks at squirrels and random people passing by the house. The only problem with this is that Skeeter veritably screams when he barks, and Scylla's bark is this really deep "Buhf" sound, and they will continue with their expression of displeasure long after the object in question has left their sight.

They really love chasing deer, though Skeeter was once almost killed by one when it turned on him and started chasing him. Scylla doesn't chase them much since she's a coward. We usually have to keep them on leashes because otherwise they'll run off and won't come back for at least a half hour no matter how much you call them.

But, no matter how much they annoy me, I still love them and there's nothing better than cuddling up to a warm sleeping dog.