My Daughter, the Poet

Cool, he's half black lab and half border collie. My grandparents used to have a black lab-border collie mix.

I don't hate the birthday song, but I did get very annoyed when I was waiting outside a hospital gift shop and this guy was looking in the gift shop window and he kept humming Happy Birthday.

Something very upsetting happened to that dog while that song was being sung. I imagine a large room full of kids were probably involved.

Our dog reacts similarly to the song "Lollipop" to the point that I get the stink eye as soon as the Dell commercial comes on! He hates it because he knows the "pop" is going to happen, and he doesn't like that. My guess is their dog doesn't like clapping, and the song is often followed by clapping!

Seems to me, with all that tail wagging and happy perking-up, that he ran outside for some serious play, wondering why the ones who started it are still inside. Seems to me.

Perhaps Dave was Patty or Mildred Hill in a previous life, and misses the royalties.

My friend's dog does the same thing to the same song! She even sings songs like 'you are my sunshine' as his name is Sunny and he's fine, but boy when you start singing 'happy birthday' block your ears! We always wondered about this, and we were thinking, since dogs have a better sense of smell than us humans, maybe they associate the song not with people cheering and clapping, but with the fact that he can smell the lit candles and perhaps he senses danger. Dogs are pretty smart, he might have just learned to associate the song with the danger of fire. And until dogs can learn to communicate with us, I guess we'll never know ;)