I have a confession

I sing to my dogs.I mean I sing to them when they need to go to sleep.It started out of desperation.We have a 3 month old miniature dachshund puppy who hates her crate.Actually she likes her crate...she just hates being seperated from everyone.She whines and cries and carries on for up to 45 minutes on some nights.Jean looked on the web and said that some sites say you can sing your dogs to sleep when they are upset.Then she looked at me and smiled.I promptly said in a stern tone,I am not singing to your dog when she is having a hissy fit in her crate.But later that night when she was in her crate sounding so pitiful at 10:00 at night,there I was on all fours in my pj's....singing to her for about 10 minutes and then she was out.

Thing is,I had to do the same thing the next night....and the next,and the next.My dog Harley,fell right to sleep too...and he does not cry when he goes to his crate.It is amazing the choice of songs that come to mind...songs from Girl Scout camp (I last went in 1976...go figure)...I also sing songs I use to sing when I sang in coffee houses in college (some 20 years ago)...

The song that gets the most "air play" is Baby Boats.At camp a baby boat was a piece of bark which was about 3 inches long on which was lodged a little white candle.Then on the last night of camp,some 300 campers would launch their baby boats on the lake and sing the song,crying and whimpering the whole time.Years later the same song was sung on the movie "Awakenings".

here are the words:
Baby boat's a silver moon on a silver sky.Sailing on a sea of dreams as the clouds go by.Sail baby sail out across the sea.
Only don't forget to sail back again to me.
Baby's fishing for a dream,fishing near and far,Her line's a silver moonbeam as her bait's a silver star.Sail baby sail.Out across the sea.Only don't forget to sail back again to me.