‘Helping in the allotment’ OR ‘Reasons not to get a doggo’
January 1, 2018 § 6 Comments
According to eldest daughter…
- Mud splattered everywhere – even on bedroom ceiling
- Barking. Anytime – especially at night when wants to play
- No room for humans on sofas anymore
- Chronic feeling of guilt when goes out without doggo
- Doggo likes burping in face when feeling full and cheerful
- Stinky ass farts (not my words, mind), when particularly full and even more cheerful
- Paw marks on bed sheets. Bits and bobs under duvet that couldn’t have got there by themselves, like interesting twigs, pre historic sparrow corpse, rotting tennis ball
- Recurrent teenage behaviour, eg. not listening, falling in river, getting stuck down rabbit holes. Has to be rescued so can do it again
- No Christmas decorations this year. Mysteriously all chewed up
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Sounds familiar.
But your dog always looks so clean, Dan …
That’s because she doesn’t have an undercoat (which means she should be freezing). We started out with a Setter/Retriever cross, so we know the mess and the “wet dog smell”
Aha. You learn something every day 🙂
Oh but the reasons to have one more than make up for it!
I still sit on the fence, Andrea. It’s been a long time since I had a dog. I do miss those cold nuzzly noses …