When Rob got home from work, Isis used to run over to the couch excitedly, jump up on it and wait for him to fawn over her. He called it “The Spot,” as in “Go to your spot.” It was supercute. Leo is learning to make himself at home on the furniture. Some dog trainersContinue reading “The Spot”
Category Archives: doggies
The Guard Dog
Among many things we miss about Isis is the complete security we felt that no one would ever break into our house. Sure it was irritating to have her go bonkers every time the UPS guy dropped something on our porch, but no one was coming into this house uninvited. Leo already has gotten aContinue reading “The Guard Dog”
Pet therapy
I’m lucky to live in a region where it is socially acceptable to bring your dogs everywhere. Even if you can’t take them into a store or restaurant, no one looks at you funny if you leave them in the car. My workplace also is a fairly dog friendly place. I’ve been on salmon spawningContinue reading “Pet therapy”
Almost made it
I got through the work day and a three-hour writing class without melting down. I cried on the way home from class. It was a long day. Saturday, I went to the dog park with Leo, dog class with Leo and a family birthday dinner and each made me miss Isis and I cried onContinue reading “Almost made it”
The saddest day
Last night, Rob left me a message while I was at writing class. He was thinking of going to pick up some dinner, but he had Leo out and was going to play with him for a bit longer. We were still keeping our dogs separated. Leo gets to go lots of places with meContinue reading “The saddest day”
My alternative lifestyle
While on vacation the three days before Christmas, I decided to pretend I’m a different kind of writer. The kind the writes from home. I volunteered to turn in 10 pages at my fiction writing class on the first day back after the break. On top of that, we have another writing assignment we’re supposedContinue reading “My alternative lifestyle”
Wasted time
Last night, my novel-writing teacher described her creative process. “It’s not very efficient, but then, being creative is rarely efficient.” I’m efficient in a great many ways. The journalistic writing that earns my paycheck, generally, is efficient. But other aspects of my life are not. I walked around on a broken sesamoid bone for sixContinue reading “Wasted time”
Romance at the dog park
Leo is being neutered today. I waffled on it a bit, after reading some anti-neutering stuff on The Internet, chiefly that male dogs will look like females if testosterone production is cut off (so to speak). The decision was fairly well made when he seemed to be going through some puberty behaviors, but the clincherContinue reading “Romance at the dog park”
Living in the moment
I’ve been getting strange looks when I confess that I’ve had a puppy for four months and we’re still keeping him separated from the older dog. On Saturday, I got one from the trainer at Leo’s puppy prep school (she has not met Isis, but said she’d like to). My heart was heavy all throughContinue reading “Living in the moment”
My dogs, my babies
It’s often said in a jokey way, “Oh, ha ha, your dogs are like your children,” and yes, that’s pretty much how I feel about them. People sometimes say that dogs are a gateway to having human children, but I have to say at this point that my dogs are enough. I feel so muchContinue reading “My dogs, my babies”
Kari Neumeyer 