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6.9.12 We’re Bored!

09 Jun

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We’re bored. Mommy has been working really long hours and we don’t get to play with her as much as we like. We have every toy in the world, but they are not as much fun when Mom’s not on the other end. I know that we have lots of cats to chase, and we run around the yard and eat sticks and chew mulch, but that gets boring.  We chase each other a lot and fight over the toys and the balls, but if Mommy is not there with us, it is just not the same.  So we mope.  We make little whinny noises so that she understands that she really needs to stop what she is doing and interact with us, right now!  Not later Mommy, NOW!  She does not like when we get demanding.  Actually, when we yell at her she seems to ignore us even more.  Maybe if we sit nicely she will come down on the floor and play with us.  Maybe we should go get jobs, like hole digging or security guards, so that we can bring some money in and Mommy could retire and sit around all day and play games.  But then we won’t be here because we would be working.  And then Mommy would be bored because she would not have us to play with.  Oh well, I guess it is better if the human works and we hang out all day until she is free.  It’s a hard life being a house dog, but someone has to do it.

Mommy can you play with us now?

Love, Louise and Sofie Bear, you darling dearest doggies

Just another DogDaz morning at the zoo ❤

 
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Posted by on June 9, 2012 in Dogs

 

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6.4.12 Mom’s Sick Day

04 Jun

Remember when you felt like ‘sunshowers’ should be legal grounds for cutting school. I wish, other than being ill, there was a way to just get a day off of the responsibility roller coaster.

Animal caretakers don’t get a day off.  Animals still need to be feed and cared for, no matter how bad you feel.  It is not their fault the human is sick; they still deserve to eat.  Dogs need to be walked or at least let out.  Cat boxes need to be scooped. Cages need to be cleaned. And even human children (up to the age of 30, I think) still want to know what Mom is making for dinner (even if you have not gotten out of bed since the morning).

The concept of Mom being sick is incommodious in this house: inconvenient and not given any space to exist.  The animals, though non-comprehensive of why Mommy is asleep during the light hours, at least try to cuddle and make contact. The humans….. they just fall apart,  In my house the world kind of comes to a weird slow down.  Children, who were capable of making decisions yesterday, all of a sudden need input on things while you are sleeping and they need it now! Or there is the other ‘responsible adult,’ who is in total denial of the situation (maybe in fear that giving it credence might somehow make it last longer then desired), so the mailbox overflows, the newpapers pile up, etc.  All in 36 hrs….  hahahahhahahaha.

When you are part of a pack, a zoo, a family wheel, with roles, tasks, and inter-dependencies, it is really hard when the linchpin slips.  The wheel kind of woobles until it is reset. I am glad to say everyone survived my food poisoning episode (though I thought I would die), but just in case I do something stupid like that again, I will try to make sure there are dinners in the freezer and that the dogs are already walked and feed before I collapse.  And I will try not to do it when family is coming in from out of town, one of the kids is graduating, and ……

Just another dogdaz morning at the zoo. 

 
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Posted by on June 4, 2012 in Cats

 

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