Tuesday, June 29, 2004
Dog Sitting for the Outlaws
[b]Well[/b] today has been another boring, uneventful day with the exception of the fact that my inlaws picked up their dog today. We've been watching Molly, the cairn terrier, for the last couple of days and she managed to crap on the floor 4 times and pee once (that I noticed). I know the dog isn't completely stupid so it's really frustrating to see a 2 year old dog having accidents when it should be asking me to go outside. As much as you like to blame the dog for that, its just bad 'dog parenting'... it wasn't trained to ask so it doesn't. Leaving hershey squirts on my carpet is only one of many things that I dislike about the dog. It's yappy. When I say yappy, I don't mean poodle high pitched yippy yappy, I just mean that you'll be sitting there enjoying a silent moment and the dog will come out with a barage of barks for NO reason. Hence the bark collar. Normally I may not agree with a bark collar (my dog doesn't have one) but this dog is so yappy... it's completely neccessary if only to keep me from kicking it in the chops. Also, there is the persistant attempts at escaping out the front door. My dog has only done this a couple times and it usually was because of a 'Bad' cat within view or a 'shifty' looking male walking by our house. Molly will sneak through the tiniest slot left by your legs in the crack of the doorway and once she is outside she runs around like a lunatic and pretty much just keeps on running with no will or inclination to return to her home- the place she gets all of her food and sleeps. If Piper hops too far out of the door you just have to let out a sharp whistle and she returns likety split (unless she's after that nasty old cat)... not molly... you could whistle till your lips fell off and she would keep on running. Now that is just plain stupid. I know why she doesn't want to come back home... but that would take another entire blog dedicated to puppy training. You know, that wouldn't be such a bad idea. If you've been reading my blog for any length of time, you know that I absolutely [b]adore dogs [/b]and all animals really. But this is one dog that I'm glad to be free of. I kinda feel sorry for it, it's only a dog right?? Oh well... I'm only human and a human can only take so much Shat, pee, free wheeling escapes and incessant barking. Is it because the dog is pure bred?? My dog is sharp as a tack and she's a total soup hound... Is it the lack of proper training?? OR BOTH?? One thing I know is, it's sad. and the other thing I know is; I don't want to sit Molly anytime soon. ~jen
- some stand-up comedian
| Blogged By islandarts at 2:40 a.m.
