Must love dogs...

Alex has two best friends who lavish her with more love than she deserves. Sorry, I need to clarify that statement. I do believe she deserves all the love in the world, but sometimes when she pesters them, I am amazed at their patience.  She pulls on their ears, pokes her fingers into their eyes, pulls out tufts of fur by the handful, sits on them, jumps on them, and the worst......she likes to grab onto a certain male anatomical part of Thor's and pull it like taffy.  Oh, poor Thor.  Of course I am monitoring this to make sure that they don't lose their patience, but sometimes Alex is too fast for me and she just reaches out and BAM! comes the abuse.  Sadie will lay there and take it forever.  I think she is of the mentality that any attention is good attention, especially in the last year when she hasn't gotten as much time with us after Alex's arrival.  So Sadie wags her tail as Alex continues to pound, punch and pummel.  Thor is equally calm, although he doesn't stick around for long.  He usually scurries away as soon as he sees Alex running to him Frankenstein-style, with two arms outreached and a crazy look in her eyes.   So far so good when it comes to the dogs.  We are always concerned, because you just can't ever be too comfortable about dogs and kids, but mostly we are just glad that they are bringing her some entertainment and love.