A Boy and his Dog

Is there anything better than seeing a boy and his dog. Nolan came home from school on Friday really upset, he had been teased at school and for a 10 year old was having a bad day. Later that night he curled up on the couch still sad and the dogs jumped up to be by his side. It's amazing how dogs know when your upset and in need of some extra lovin. They stayed by his side all night and he slept like a baby as did they. The next morning he got up and hugged them for about an hour then he was feeling great and was ready to start his day. He looked at me and said "My life would be sad without my dogs". I agreed, I know all to well how healing they can be, no matter what's wrong, some major doggie love makes it all better. Why is that? Is there any better feeling than being surrounded by pure, uncritical, unselfish, Love...

They need Pupppy Sleeping pills..

So Sunday night was fun. At 1:oo am my oldest son Xander woke up crying because his throat hurt, I felt so bad. I hate when your kids don't feel well and there is nothing you can do to make the pain go away. I gave him some Motrin and had him gargle with salt water, he calmed down and insisted on laying on the couch with me and Molly. Of course as soon as he was on the couch Molly woke up, something about just seeing the boys gets her so excited. Now Molly is wide awake and BoBo has come over to see what is going on. Usually I can just give Molly her bone and she chews her little heart out and tires herself back out, but BoBo thinks it is hilarious to steal her bone. He has to have the one she is chewing on. So now Molly and BoBo are going at it, so I just decided to let it play out , this will definitely make her tired. I was wrong, they love to play fight and instead of it getting her energy out it seemed to just have given her more energy and now she is on one. She then proceeded to attack Xander, she tore his PJ bottoms as I was trying to pull her off, now you have to realize that this is funny as hell, so now Xander and I are laughing and now everyone is wide awake. Bobo finally gets tired and tries to sleep but Molly see her chance for revenge and she took it. Blop, Boom, Bam she jumps on his head, wrestles him into submission, he freaks out and gets his 2nd wind, Boom Molly goes down, it is now 4am, we are all still awake. Now my bright idea is to just put Molly in the boys room with her Bone and let her calm down, but she thinks running into the door head first is a lot more fun. An hour goes by it seems to be quiet so I let her out, she comes running toward me with this cute little look on her face like I'm Free, I'm Free... So I decide to pick her up and carry her around while singing to her, this works with babies so why not a puppy, I think she gained 10lbs since Saturday, so this didn't last very long and although it did not calm her down I did get a lot of good kisses. At 6am Xander finally went to sleep, but Molly was still wide awake, she ran around for another hour before she finally passed out. She is lucky she is so cute, that's all I have to say...

Now it's Monday yeah... It is 5 in the afternoon and Molly has been napping most the day, must be nice...

Molly The Mastiff Mayhem

So yes I thought bringing the dogs to the shop everyday would be easy. After all everyone at the shop brings their dogs, this would be a great way to socialize the new puppy and get BoBo the freak dog to stop being so weird around other dogs. What I didn't consider was the ride to shop everyday with a big fat BoBo and a brand new Puppy. After a few days of Molly sitting on my shoulders the whole way, I decicded to go to Petsmart and get her a Doggie Seatbelt. This will be the safest and easiest way to ride in the truck, so I thought. What they don't tell you on the "Easy Rider" package is that your dog will most likely end up freaking out after you strap them in and end up in a tangled mess trying to hang themselves, which is exactly what happened. So we are back to square one. I also did not consider how much time it would take getting them from the house to the car. They are dogs, oh no no, it is just like trying to get a hyper 3 yr old and a newborn out the door. With me lugging the doggie bag, packed with all the chew toys, Molly's blankie, training treats, food, bones, all while holding 2 dogs on 2 different leashes wanting to go 2 different ways. Getting Bobo in the truck is easy, but as soon as I re-open the door to put Molly in Bobo jumps out and runs down the street. Now I have gotten Molly in the truck and get to go play " catch me if u can" with Bobo. This is my morning everyday. I need to come up with a better way....