I had a hard time coming up with some of my quirks, but Sasha’s come to mind easily. Probably no one else cares about this, but it’s still fun to write.

1. She doesn’t like trailers, or more specifically, any vehicle pulling something along behind it, whether it’s a boat, U-Haul, flatbed trailer, whatever. She goes nuts barking at it.

2. She’s scared of things that beep, like digital thermometers, watches, and other electronic things. Even if it’s a very quiet, not-at-all-annoying beep, it still freaks her out and she starts pacing and trembling and wants to jump on the furniture. I would give anything to know what she’s thinking. (I tried to “desensitize” her to beeps once by beeping something as I was offering her a treat. All I did was make her afraid of treats for a few days. She kept shying away from them. Dog biscuits can be so unpredictable, you know.)

3. She doesn’t like the camera. (This is a shame because she’s so cute! It’s hard to get a good picture of her.) When we get the camera out, she tries to hide from it, and she sometimes even has the same jumping-on-the-furniture reaction that she has to beeps and thunder. She can even tell when we’re using our cell phones as cameras. We can talk on our cell phones with no reaction whatsoever from her, but if we try to take a picture with them, she knows.

4. Most dogs roll in stuff. Thanfully, Sasha doesn’t like to roll in gross things; she prefers fragrances and household chemicals. When we’ve just put on something scented, like my perfume or David’s aftershave, she wants to roll on us. When I spray air freshener, or spray Endust on a cloth and a little residue gets on the floor, she goes crazy rolling around all over the carpet. You should see her with Febreeze.

5. Every time I play the piano, she gets her toys out of her basket and starts playing with them. Every time. She really doesn’t play much on her own, I’d say just a couple of minutes a day, and that’s usually when David comes home. But somehow the piano triggers something in her mind that tells her she’s supposed to play with her toys.

6. She doesn’t like it when we sneeze, particularly David. If she’s lying near him, she gets up and moves away. If she’s somewhere else in the house, she gets up and goes to him. She just has to move somehow, and she seems somewhat annoyed that we’ve disturbed her and made her get up.

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