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The Wrath of Roo

Monday, April 2nd, 2012

Well, she did it again.  I tried to get a hold of her to put her in her crate last night, I chased her for an hour and gave up. It’s like she knows when I am getting ready to put her in her crate.  She gets under the bed and I cannot get to her, and she knows this.  So, I went to bed, thinking that she would come out an jump up into bed with me and I could then place her in her crate.  I fell asleep and woke up about 3:00 a.m. when I heard a noise in the bedroom.  I got up to see what she was doing, and she had chewed up two electrical cords, one that went to the sleep number bed and the other that was for an old boom box I have sitting beside the bed.

She was very lucky in that they were both plugged into a power strip that she had turned off when she stepped on it while crawling under the bed.  I think she did it because she was mad at me for trying to put her in her crate to sleep.  I don’t know what to do with her.

Roo’s second grooming…

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

I took my puppy, Roo, to the groomers for her second grooming last Saturday.  I dropped her off and proceeded to go to a couple of stores to spend a few hours shopping.

I went to Target to spend a $30 gift card that I had received for Christmas, I tend to hold onto gift cards for awhile and I just had not had the opportunity or the need to go to Target.  I then went to Martin’s grocery store and picked up a few things I needed to refill the pantry and fridge and then drove home.

No sooner than I had gotten the groceries unloaded from the trunk, my cell phone rang.  It was the groomer.  I asked “She is done already?”, to which I got a “No, it is not going to happen”.  Apparently, she got her bath and was dried off, but when they tried to clip her, she freaked out and they were afraid she was going to injure herself, so they did not clip her.  If they had only called me 10 minutes earlier, I was still on the other end of town, near the store.  So, I put the food away and drove back to the other end of town to pick her up.  She was so happy to see me!!!  I guess I will have to try to clip her myself and just get her toenails clipped at the groomers or the veterinarians office. Wish me luck!!

Gotta love that dog

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Well, you have all read about the new puppy, Roo.  She is a wholly terror sometimes!!!  She is great when my other half is home, an absolute angel!!  But, as soon as he is gone, those horns come out again.

Last night, she had a good night and slept beside me in the bed.  She woke me up at her usual 4:00 a.m. to go potty.  I got back into bed, forgetting to put my night splint (for my foot) up where she could not reach it.  I awoke about an hour later, to find her on the floor, tearing the rubber off of the bottom of my $100 splint!!  I could have strangled her!!!  She got a good scolding and was put in her crate, while I cleaned up the mess she had made.

If I make it through her puppy-hood, it will be a miracle.

Midnight Snack

Monday, February 6th, 2012

Well, Roo has done it again.  Last night, after going to play Bingo, and actually winning something, I came home and let Roo out of her crate to play for awhile.  Being as I was tired from a long day, I brought several of her toys into the bedroom with us and placed them on the bed to occupy her so that I could go to sleep.  I figured she would play for awhile, tire out and go to sleep also.

Boy was I wrong!!  I finally fell asleep about 11:00 p.m.  I could feel her wrestling around beside me and did not think anything of it, believing she was playing with one of her toys.  I woke up fully about midnight to find my bed filled with memory foam and black rubber.  I then found what was left of my slipper lying on the floor beside the bed.

Needless to say, I was not happy at all.  Roo got placed in her crate, after a stern scolding, and I proceeded to spend the next half an hour cleaning up the mess in my bed and on the floor.  I then got back into bed and went back to sleep until 4:30 a.m., when Roo woke me up to go outside for her scheduled morning outing.  She seems to wake up every morning at 4:30 to go out, no matter what time she goes to bed.  I then got back into bed, set my alarm for 6:00 a.m., because I really needed that extra hour of sleep and I went to work a little blurry-eyed this morning.

Time

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

Time, we never have enough, we have too much time on our hands.  It can go either way.  I always seem to be on the short end of time.  I work a full time job, have a puppy at home that is the equivalent of having a 2 year old, clean houses on the side.  I never seem to have enough time to get everything done in a day that I plan to do when my feet hit the floor in the morning.  Even when I was not working full time, I still never seemed to get everything done.  Everything took too much time!!!