Saturday, November 3, 2007


Effective dog management. A typical morning. Wake up at 3am because Boji is downstairs barking. Not whining, barking. Might as well get a drink of water while I am up. Maybe a snack. Return to bed and wonder is she would like to sleep in the SUV. I got a new Trailblazer last week. She might like it. Nix that idea. I like my neighbors.

Fall back to sleep for about 2 hours of tossing and turning. Perri, our 10 year old is a bed hog. At five, get out of bed, and turn off the alarm before it makes that obnoxious white noise they call an alarm. Want an internal alarm clock? Try 13 dogs.

Walk downstairs, yawning, and scratching, step on a bone; get another drink of water, quick look in on the pups. Trip on the X pen, tip over the baby gate and wonder why we don’t have goldfish.

Go downstairs, start the toaster.

Take Boji from the X pen, move all the pups into another X pen. Feed Boji, let her outside. Start cleaning. The floors a mess, the pups are a mess, I am a mess. Put newspaper down on the floor, read the headlines from a week ago: The Red Sox won the series? Has hell frozen over?

Move pups from auxiliary X pen back to main X pen. Clean auxiliary X pen. RUN upstairs, fire alarm screeching from toast burning. Decide McDonalds isn’t THAT bad for you.

Go say good morning to resident dogs. Give the toaster another shot, while getting the food from the refrigerator for the RAW diet. Feed resident dogs. Let Boji back in, let others out.

Put Boji downstairs, install baby gate to keep resident dogs and mom safe, secure, and separate. Let resident dogs back inside.

Take soiled linen from “Dog Room” open washer only to discover it’s full of wet clean clothes. Toss them in drier, start washer, and wonder when the washer and drier are going to give up the ghost. Who doesn’t need another bill right?

Is it too early for Tanquery & Tonic? If your not careful the above picture is your destiny.

Until later today,
C YA


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