{"id":3294,"date":"2009-08-27T09:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2009-08-27T09:31:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-27T17:31:19","slug":"doggy-chronicles-a-frustrating-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/doggy-chronicles-a-frustrating-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Doggy Chronicles: A Frustrating Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nIt seems Mississippi is getting me back for saying all those nice things about her last week. It’s been a very frustrating few days around here. The week started off pretty well. We took her on a hike Sunday to Tryon Creek<\/a>. She did pretty good most of the way. She did try to pull me down a steep narrow trail with all her might and she did get all barky on some dogs but I was able to get her to sit and take treats while a Bernese walked by and she didn’t even make a peep. Monday morning she seemed very content to stay home with me so I didn’t take her to doggy daycare. She had a very relaxing day, just hanging on the couch or in the backyard. She got antsy in the afternoon so I walked her up to the bus stop to meet Tom after work. She was terrible on the walk. She pulled and fought for the leash and she barked at everything. She didn’t calm down until we were more than halfway home.<\/p>\n

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The leash walking thing is really driving me nuts. It takes her so long to calm down enough to see that we are in practice mode. I understand she needs to do some sniffing, but she needs to be able to pay attention to me at least for a couple minutes at a time. If I can get her to heel, she breaks away as soon as I treat her. I have to do lots of turning around and corrections. I probably look like a crazy woman. That’s ok I guess, I’ll be crazy looking if I have to.<\/p>\n

Monday night we went to the Lucky Lab and she was great. I can’t believe she actually looks forward to sitting at a pub and watching us drink beer. She still gets lots of treats or she gets restless but she gets a little better every week.<\/p>\n

Tuesday I had a Dr. appointment in the morning and she was all excited to go to day care. I didn’t check my phone until 2 and I discovered a voicemail from 11am. Mississippi had gotten into another fight. It wasn’t serious but she was kicked out and had been waiting for me in the bad doggy kennel to pick her up. I feel really bad that I hadn’t checked my phone for three hours. I was too wrapped up in personal crap to remember I had a phone. She was nuts when I picked her up, she yanked at her leash and was all wild-eyed and crazy.<\/p>\n

Yesterday she stayed home with me. She did ok for most of the day but did lots of her usual barking at everything that moves. I tried to take her on a lunchtime walk and we were both completely frustrated. She is definitely testing us to see who is boss. I feel so bad that she doesn’t have a good outlet for exercise. I tried to take her to North Clackamas park in the early evening. She pulled all the way from the car to the fence and we did about a billion turn arounds, trying to get her to stop pulling. Inside the park she did ok. I tried to get her to fetch but she wasn’t interested. She was playing pretty nice with the other dogs. Then another dog showed up that looked almost exactly like her. His name is Nate and his ears are a little different, he has small bits of white on the ends of his paws but other than that they are the same build, same weight. Mississippi took an interest in him right away. She was barking and chasing him. Another dog didn’t like it and things started to escalate. I decided it was time to leave and had a frustrating time trying to get her away from the action. I finally just ran away, calling her to me and she came. I need to remember that when she’s in a tussle like that, I should call her away from it, instead of trying to get in and grab her. If she’s stressed, she’ll usually come to me for protection. At least I want to believe that.
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\nLast night was Tom’s birthday so she had to stay home alone. This morning she is tearing up the backyard and barking up a storm. She’s been stealing things more this week. She got Tom’s sock today out of the hamper and a pair of my undies yesterday. I know she’s bored and I feel terrible about that but I can’t risk taking her back to daycare when she’s like this. I wish our walks were more fun right now. We could both use a good, relaxing walk.<\/p>\n

She’s obviously going through some sort of crazy teenage angst right now. I’m thinking of Exorcising her. I need to remember that she probably needs lots of love right now. I wish she’d show me a little love. Aren’t dogs supposed to unconditionally love you? I think she hates me right now. Tom keeps reminding me that we’ve only had her 5 months and that she came to us with issues that are just going to take time. It just feels so nice when things are going well, these bad periods can be so frustrating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems Mississippi is getting me back for saying all those nice things about her last week. It’s been a very frustrating few days around here. The week started off pretty well. We took her on a hike Sunday to Tryon Creek. She did pretty good most of the way. She did try to pull […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}