Meditation is NOT for Dogs

I've developed a pretty good routine every morning for my meditation. The dogs have decided to not be very helpful with meditation - they like to interrupt. So most mornings, I wake up early, and sneak out to the living room without waking them up. They sleep in their beds in our bathroom next to our bedroom, so they can usually hear when I get up. But if I get up early enough, they're still sleeping, and they assume I'm not getting up for real. Yes, I know what my dogs assume - they tell me...

This morning, I slept a little later than normal - 7:00 instead of 6:00, so I could not sneak out - they were very restless. So I let them out, and fed them outside, hoping they would be quiet for my ten minutes of meditation. No such luck. About 5 minutes in, I heard them barking to be let inside. I tried to ignore them, which sometimes works. But they kept going, and it's way too early to let them keep barking with sleeping husband and neighbors. So I let them in, and resumed my position on the floor, telling them to not touch me. They know when I give them the command, they're not to touch me, but they have no sense of space. At one point, I could feel and smell dog breath on my face. Now these boys are 120 pounds of love each, so when I sit on the floor, and they sit on the floor, we're about the same height. I opened my eyes, and about 3 inches from my face, I saw this. Excuse the blurriness, it's what the iphone camera does when there is something that close...