Puppilustenfloogen

Only German possesses the word to capture it with precision.  The English translation is mildly obscene, loosely – "a flood of lustful feelings towards a puppy."  You probably know it but haven't let yourself name it.  It would sound so vulgar, even to think it.  The nose (yours, not puppy's) starts to twitch with desire to sniff.  The lips begin to quiver with longing to kiss.  The fingers flex for a fistful of that plush puppy toosh.   An electrical storm of longing overwhelms conscious thought, productive work (math assignments, blog writing, moving global capital, etc.) is waylaid by two furry creatures curled around each other on a dog bed.  Perhaps one of them yawns just so, or does that sleepy stretch where the two front legs reach straight, ears bunching up on shoulders.  God help you if he rests his head on her back, or she tucks her face under her own paw.  AHHHH!  Puppilustenfloogen!

As you would expect, German has words for the various shades of puppilustenfloogen.  For example, you know you have it real bad when you fall on your face, right then and there; this they call "swoonenpuppilustenfloogen."  Or when you take the puppies for a run, a proper public workout, and you find yourself unable to resist a squeeze of the bunchy butt drawn side-to-side by the wagging tail.  This they call "roonenpuppilustenfloogen."  As you have already imagined, when you are besieged by fall-on-your-face longing while running, you have swoonenroonenpuppilustenfloogen.  This can be very dangerous – to the puppy, your face, and your reputation.

A cozy variation tends to come on in early morning to people only half-arrived from sleep; the sight of a sleeping puppy elicits a mammalian urge to return to the primordial warmth and floaty softness of the womb.  The satisfaction of "morgenpupplilustenfloogen" is best achieved by pressing closed eyes into the soft neck fur under puppy's ears and tucking hand under puppy's belly.

A kinky variation comes about when more than one family member is overwhelmed by pupplilustenfloogen at the same time, in which case it's convenient (for the sake of not going to jail) to have at least two puppies.  This the Germans call "grupenpuppilustenfloogen."  It tends to come on late at night, such as when two puppies curl up alluringly on either end of the living room couch, attracting boys to them.  The bigger the boys, the harder grupenpuppilustenfloogen can be to identify, as the puppies can be rendered entirely invisible under the boys' backsides.   In this case, one must listen for human murmurs and sighs as evidence of grupenpuppilustenfloogen going on.  The Germans have a word for this too – "puppiloovenwhisperschplecken."