u/Wkid_one

One of the hardest parts of being away for work is knowing Harley is often sitting and staring at the gate waiting for me to come home 😭😭.

We stare at Dad until he wakes up and the minute he shows any signs of waking - each of us do one or both of a) face boop him with a cold snoot and/or b) lie on him so he knows we’re ready.

As he is getting ready - help him by grabbing one sock and taking it to the door to save him having to carry it.

Just as we are about to get our ‘don’t run on the roadies’ on - go and visit Mum in bed to say good bye. Wait until Dad has to whisper really loudly to get us to come back out - that’s a fun game.

Insert some more random spinnies as fast as possible to test Dads ability to clip us on. Also, this has the added bonus of wrapping us up in the leads.

When Dad is locking the front door, ensure we move as quickly to the gate as possible to check how Dads early morning balance is on the front steps. Now Dad clips us to the same lead - if we move fast enough, he makes funny noises and does a weird dance down the steps.

Go for a walk - ensure we show Dad how grateful we are to be going for a walk by pretending we’re the Budweiser draft horses.

While on the walk we must only ever go for poose as far away from the trail in the wettest grass possible - this ensures Dad isn’t seen or embarrassed picking it up. Plus, his socks get wet and when we get home he throws them at us as a reward.

Get home. While Dad goes to the supermarket to get the food we share with him, go back to bed with Mum. She loves it so much when we’ve found a random puddle or wet grass and help disguise her smell too so she can sneak up on ducks like us. Plus she’s warm.

Show Dad we love him when he gets home by being right at the door. Deploy spinnies, leg darts and an impromptu ‘bet you can’t walk in a straight line’ game with Dad as he goes to the kitchen. Watch Dad prepare our breakfast - ensure we are as close as possible when he opens the food cupboard and randomly bark so the rest of the house knows we are about to eat. Try not to whack our heads on the cabinetry as we do spinnies when Dad puts out brekkie out.

Eat this as fast as caninely possible. We love the game ‘Whoever finishes first, tries to eat some of the others’. Chewing is for rookies. Hungry Hippos got nothing on us.

Also, need to finish so we can watch Dad make his. We must periodically jump up on the bench to do quality assurance and ensure Dad is portioning out our second breakfast.

Now we get fruit (usually berries (raspberry, black or blue), citrus (orange or mandarins) or something else like strawberries. To keep Dad on his toes - randomly one of us will put in it our mouth and then spit it out somewhere like we don’t like it.

Then we get to lick the yoghurt pottle clean.

Follow Dad in to the office and sit impatiently watching him eat every spoonful of his breakfast.

Third breakfast is coming - When he’s finally done, try to get to the bowl before Dad can fully put it down. Lick the bowl clean (it is best to be sure we got it all so we must remove a few microns on porcelain as well)

Finally, no breakfast is complete without dessert so we have to hover around Dad to see if he has a danish and try to steal some of this as well. And, if he does, decimate the bag in which the danish came.

First morning stage complete. Now we go back to bed with Mum. When she wakes up we pretend we haven’t been fed by Dad to see if Mum falls for it.

Springers - most loveable bellends on the planet.