I amuse God, I know it. I think that when he has a few idle moments he wonders "Hmmm, what is Miss Ran doing and how can I make it more interesting?". He found a doozy this morning.....at just before 6am, Miss Ran was sleeping (finally) and my beloved Mattie started whining at the door to go out. He usually waits until his daddy's alarm goes off before he starts this but this morning was apparently an emergency. It takes me a bit to wake up in the mornings as this is just NOT my time of day. Joe was already up but I knew he had another 20 minutes or so to sleep so I opened the door for Mattie then turned around to get the boys out of their crates. While my back was turned Mattie had the opportunity to yak up about a gazillion tons of pureed dog food on my (wait for it.....) freshly steam cleaned carpet. I spent the last 2 days steam cleaning the crap out of every carpeted surface in my downstairs...........Mattie has tummy problems, he is easily stressed and has a very sensitive tummy. The last few days he has been in a cone because he has a bug bite on his tail that he will not leave alone. This happened last year and he licked at it so badly that he created a huge wound that took weeks to heal. This time we reacted proactively and stuck him in the cone before it could get to that point. He does not enjoy this particular insult to his dignity and reacts by being grumbly and crabby, lashing out at the puppies (although that is not really any different than any other day....I think he is amazingly nice to them considering) and just generally wandering around moping and looking abused. One of the guidelines for anything that makes Mattie unhappy is a Pepcid with dinner. Pepcid is perfectly safe to use with dogs, although definitely check with your vet regarding the dosage, Mattie at 80lbs gets a full pill but smaller dogs can often be given half. Usually this does the trick and we can sleep easy knowing that we will not have an "incident" at least from that particular dog. Obviously we were wrong......
Yesterday night while I was waiting for the water to boil for dinner I finally got around to checking my FB page and saw a post from my Auntie S. that sounds incredibly like the story that I just wrote....and her prayer echoes in my heart and mind constantly (Forgive the paraphrasing Auntie) "God give me patience". I am NOT a patient person, anyone who has spent more than 3 minutes with me understands this immediately. I really do think these things are a chance to practice this virtue but I just do not have TIME for it! Alright, actually my dogs are incredible teachers in this regard. Raising 2 puppies at a time with 2 older dogs having to adapt to the new additions and Grace getting sick and, and, and....well, it works wonders. I am still not a patient person but I am learning that I can set it aside until I can find a quiet room (or closet) and scream out my frustration while kicking a pile of dog toys (I keep a stash in my closet since they regularly destroy their toys and need replacements. This save my furniture, shoes, carpets and anything else they can eat....although the dog beds are still their favorite snack and have thus been removed from their crates until they can be trusted with them) until I feel better and can actually look at them without seeing red and thinking repeatedly "Kill, Kill, Kill". Cesar Millan, the Dog Whisperer says that you don't get the dog you want but the dog you need....I am trying really hard to believe that and accept that my dogs are here to teach me what God wants me to learn, but what I really want is to go back to sleep and call it a day.....at least for a while. A "do over" sounds like a great idea right about now.....I think I should go test the theory.
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