We tend to make a lot of comparisons between Keeley and Teagan. Here are a few of them:Keeley brings the funk. Teagan brings the noise.
Keeley has a distinct sorta stinky odor to him. I can't seem to get rid of it. I'll give him a bath and within 3 days his funk is back. I've just gotten used to it, but everyone else is constantly telling me how stinky he is. Teagan has a hard time containing her excitement and once she starts barking, it's difficult to get her to stop.
Keeley is interval training. Teagan is endurance training.
When walking the dogs together with another person, the person that has Teagan is going to get an endurance workout because she wants to go full speed straight ahead the whole time. It's hard work holding her back or matching her pace, either way. On the other hand, the person walking Keeley is going to get some interval training. Keeley likes to stop and sniff things a lot but he can't stand for Teagan to be ahead of him at the same time. So with Keeley you have to do these sprints to catch up to and get ahead of Teagan. But as soon as he's ahead of her, he'll find something to sniff for several minutes and she'll get past him again.
Keeley is the warm-up. Teagan is the workout.
When I walk the dogs separately by myself, I always walk Keeley first because he's my warm-up. Without Teagan there to catch up to, it's a much more leisurely walk with Keeley. I take Teagan for her walk second because she's all about go-go-go! She always makes sure I'm sweating by the end of the walk.
Keeley is the helper dog. Teagan is the simple dog.
If you don't know about Hyperbole and a Half, you have to check it out. The posts about her 2 dogs are the best! Keeley is a lot like the smart but neurotic "helper dog" and Teagan is like the "simple dog". The post about "Dogs don't understand basic concepts like Moving" is hilarious. When the simple dog finally becomes aware of something being wrong (even though the helper dog has been stressing about it for a long time already) and starts making a high pitched noise, that's so Teagan! And then the person yelling at the simple dog, and it thinks "Sounds! U R making sounds! Me too! We R sound making buddies!" well, that's very Teagan too. We used to think that Teagan was just dumb, but now we've pretty much decided that she's probably of normal doggie intelligence, but because Keeley is brilliant, he makes Teagan appear dumber than she really is.
