Oh How Adorable...

When we first brought Teddy Bear home from the Humane Society, his crate was his safe haven whenever he got scared or unsure of a situation. 

Case in point:

Over the past year that we've had him, he's gotten quite a bit better - it used to be that every single time someone would come over he'd run away barking like crazy and head straight for the crate.  Now, he still runs away barking but instead of heading for the crate he just jumps on our bed --- unless he gets really nervous or scared. 

For Example: The other day Paul and I were scared to death looking for Teddy - we couldn't find him anywhere.  We knew that we hadn't left the front door open and we couldn't think of any reason for him to be scared (i.e. no one strange was over at the house, there was no thunder or lightning, the upstairs neighbor wasn't being too loud) so we were in a panic.  Where could our sweet Teddy Bear be??? 

I was in my closet checking in all of the little cubby holes when I heard Paul yell "you have got to see this" so I ran to the guest bathroom and this is what I found:

Teddy Bear had found a new hiding place for when he gets scared - bless his heart.  Does it get any more adorable than that???

We were so excited that we found him, but we still had no idea why he was so scared (he was shaking like crazy).  Paul pulled him out from his new hiding place and we carried him back into the kitchen and that was when we figured out what was going on.  As we neared the dishwashing machine (which was running) he started to wriggle out of Paul's arms --- AHA!!!  Teddy doesn't like the dishwasher!!!  In our old place we had to wash all of our dishes by hand so we figure he just had no idea what this loud thing was. 

I swear, we'll do anything for that dog.  Ever since we discovered his new fear of the dishwasher we've been washing all of our dishes by hand.