Time Away

For the first time since we have been married my husband and I spent more then a night apart. It was diffinetly differnt but purhaps the thing that was the most different was I was dog sitting. Three dogs. Two smaller and one quite large lab huskie mix. I have been with the dogs alone but bringing them together has been an intersting experience. The three dogs all have very different personalities and seem to all become very competitive for attention since being together. They can totally ignore me until one of the other dogs seems interested or I pay attention to any other dog or even person. Even a glance is reason for one of them to nip at or growl. Why have I never seen dogs need for attention, and also that dogs can have so much of an individual personality? My eyes have been opened to how well dogs can read humans and also that they really could be a great companion for "man". Dogs really are man's best friend.