This morning, Deckie, our alpha boy Shetland Sheepdog, was done doing his "business" outside. As always, I called him (as well as our other two Shelties and tri-color Collie) to go back into the house. The other three dogs came in quite quickly, but for some unknown reason Deckie decided to ruminate as to whether or not he wanted to join his fellow pack members.

Here's a picture of Deckie wondering if he should jump up the last two steps and on into our house:

Deckie Contemplating Steps

Note that after contemplating his circumstance for no more than about three seconds, he jumped up the last two steps and ran on into the house where food and drink were waiting for him.

As a side note, here's what a friend of our family said about the living conditions at the Presto Dog den: "When I die and if I come back to life, I want to wind up as a dog in the Presto Dog household!" I guess they don't have such a bad life experience residing in our den, eh?