puppy love. sometimes.
One more night of dogsitting. I know I haven’t shut up about it, but it’s honestly running my life right now. It’s making me seriously not want children because I cannot live like this. But, as I was telling my mom, at least with kids, you can bring them home and put them to bed for the night. Dogs, not so much. They won’t sleep until I sleep.
They were pretty well-behaved at my parents’ house, but once we got back to theirs, they went psycho. The puppy has been constantly attacking the older dog. I know she’s just playing, but poor Cissy is 13 years old and just wants to be left alone. Cissy is not feeling well today. I know this because she wouldn’t eat her freshly cooked chicken breakfast, and I can hear her stomach making weird noises (please dear lord, do not have any accidents), and Mitzi has been jumping on her/biting her/dragging her around by her bandana all day. I feel really bad for her, but I can’t spend my whole day breaking up fights (now I know how my parents felt!) and I need to get my own stuff done.
Finally, when I was at my wits end, I looked over on the bed and saw this:
And proceeded to start running around, jumping on Cissy. Sighhh at least it was peaceful for a moment. Again, now I know how parents feel when they’re ready to sell their children on the black market, and then catch a moment of pure sweetness and realize how much they love them. It’s the little things.
November 24th, 2007 at 8:45 pm
cute dogs! thats funny I said the same thing about them being more responsibility then babies when my Rocco was a little puppy. But also think.. you can leave dogs at home for a few hours and go shopping! Its not considered too kosher to do that with kids (which is why i’m selfish and don’t want any anytime soon!) I like your blog! its my first visit
Go Boston!
November 24th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
Awwww. Cute pic.
Wait… a freshly cooked chicken breakfast? Lucky!
November 24th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Those dogs are adorable, but I totally know what you mean- the few times I dog sat, I was happy to regain my privacy afterwards!
November 25th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Hey, just want to tell you I love your blog and I just linked to it! Keep posting great stuff (and cute pics!)
November 25th, 2007 at 12:06 pm
Those pictures are adorable! I know that dogs can be a lot of hard work – especially when you have two that are at different ages and one is a little puppy…
November 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
OMG… I want a dog more than ever now!!! Those puppies are too darn cute.
November 25th, 2007 at 9:55 pm
Awwwwww!!! I love dogs! Children are a long way off for me, too. I’m practicing with my two pups.
November 25th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
awe but those pups are so adorable!! i know it’s a lot of work but their cuteness must make up for it a little bit, right?
November 26th, 2007 at 2:31 am
Too cute but sounds like it’s a good thing you’re just steps away from going back to a fuzz-free existence.