November 17, 2009

It is cold and rainy this morning. I don’t enjoy staying out for very long. Mamaw says we’ll wait and see what happens before we decide on a walk.  I was STARVING this morning and ate right away. I told you I was sassy last night and got sent to bed. She didn’t even care that I didn’t get to finish eating!

And this morning I was told, “Out, out, out—EXILE” when I started in on the lavender rug in the bathroom. She just doesn’t get it…

Good Lord, I have the next size kennel—that is my third den! Mamaw left me to go to PetSmart to get a new pad. She brought it home and took the smaller kennel in the bedroom and then she put me in the new one. I didn’t like it—I didn’t appreciate it. The pad in this one has bumpers around it and doesn’t lay flat. She put me in to see how I liked it and I sure showed her! I pushed it to the side of laid on the plastic floor. I know she felt kind of bad about it but she wouldn’t let on. She just said, “Well, in the future maybe you won’t be so anxious about all of the biting, because that is where you are going to go.” Oh, oh…

The walk today was about three times longer than usual. She took me around the bike trail—it took us 45 minutes for heaven’s sake! After we made the curve on that thing, I kept trying to bite Mamaw’s legs—I didn’t want to have to walk any further. She just kept saying, “come, come, come” and “keep walking.” I was so relieved when we FINALLY got home I laid right down on the floor and slept!

Mamaw decided I needed some tummy rub time and discovered that the bottom half of me was kind of a mess. So, she got the clean towel out of the closet, ran some warm water and put my butt in the sink. It did feel very good though—and she was gentle. Then she towel dried me—it was nice and so kind of her. I think when I get to be a mess like that, she is going to take care of it right away.