As I sit here listening to Devil Dog whine in his crate, I wonder.
Why?
I had a moment of extreme weakness, that’s why.
When I had 3 people ganging up on me with pictures of cute puppies, talking about all the memories we had of Maggie, our last dog and pretty much begging on their hands and knees, it is hard to say no.
Oh how I wish I had.
Note to self: say no more often!
Another note to self: Get ear plugs and wear them often.
They fail to remember the dog hair on the floor. The dog piss on the tile.
The forget the dog puke on the new carpeting, baking in the sun all day.
First week in our new house the dog pukes up her food 2 inches from the tile. Southern exposure sun…8 hours. Yeah.
Don’t ever listen to the carpet salesman when they tell you that Berber won’t stain. Call BULLSHIT on their ass.
BTW…we don’t have carpet anymore. We have hardwood. So now I just have to pray to the puppy gods or fairies or whatever rules that part of reality, that he pees in the middle of the wood plank and not in the crack.
Let me tell you how many times THAT has happened…Yeah. You guessed right.
My office chair? Bite marks all over it. Ok, to be completely, gut wrenchingly honest? THAT I don’t give a damn about. I want a new chair any way. But still…it’s the principal of the thing. Right?
And who had the bright idea to get a puppy in the winter time? Seriously. I hate winter as it is. And now I have to take this puppy out and stand there while he decides where he wants to pee. IN THE COLD! Don’t even ask what happens when I shiver so much I drop his leash and he runs away. He hasn’t gotten the hang of listening to “come” very well. The only bright spot is that I am not responsible for the middle of the night pee breaks. That my dears is one place I stomped my foot on Rambo’s throat saying…
“I. WILL. NOT. GET. UP. IN. THE. MIDDLE. OF. THE. NIGHT”, that is all.
I need a vacation.
~Sassy
p.s. this was written yesterday…today he shit on my office floor.
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Cheer yourself with the knowledge that you don’t have four of the bastards running around leaving dog hair and piss and shit all over the place, as I do. None of them are puppies anymore, so their days of chewing and utterly destroying everything in their path are over, thank god, but the hair! The dirt they track in! At least we have a dog door, even if the idiots forget and still scratch on the door in the middle of the night to go out.
That totally cheers me up, in a weird. sad way. Four would drive me insane. Thanks for pointing out the hair thing…we haven’t gotten rid of the puppy hair that DOESN’T shed yet. That was why I never wore black. We had a white dog..oh and guess what? Another white dog. WTF!
Yes. I get this. Totally get this.
I had a yellow lab for 15 years. Loved her more everyday. She passed away 3 years ago this month.
A week doesn’t go by I don’t hear, “You thinking about getting another pup? Oh, you need one…I think you should get one…you’d enjoy one!”
ARE YOU F’ING KIDDING ME?
I loved her to pieces…but damn! No more rushing home after work, no more buying her food over mine, no more nothing.
I do miss her…but feel more like I just sent my kid off to college. And I don’t know too many who send a kid to college then think, “Hey! Let’s have a baby!”
Someone else who totally understands!
We went 5 years between dogs and I loved all 5 years for the same reasons you are still enjoying your time without a dog. You are so right, people don’t so that with kids, why do we do it with dogs, cats, whatever?