{"id":3512,"date":"2009-10-05T11:58:11","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T18:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=3512"},"modified":"2009-10-05T12:10:18","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T19:10:18","slug":"doggy-chronicles-six-months-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/doggy-chronicles-six-months-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Doggy Chronicles: Six Months Together"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dear Mississippi, We’ve been together for 6 months now and I can’t imagine life without you. You are so wonderful, such a face, you could melt the heart of any human or dog. Cats, I think you’ve got some work ahead of you to win them over. I’m so glad you picked us that fateful day last April at the Oregon Humane Society<\/a>. It was rough going for a while there. But you’ve come a long way. You still bark like crazy, and sometimes on leash you bark and pull when you see another dog. At the dog park and doggy day care you’ve gotten much better at keeping yourself out of hot water.<\/p>\n

I honestly don’t know what I would have done without Rockin’ Roxy’s Dog Daycare<\/a> in Sellwood. Because of them you are a much, much happier dog. You’ve learned some valuable conflict resolution skills by hanging out with the other pups in a supervised environment and you’ve made some great friends, both human and canine, as have I.<\/p>\n

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We think it’s really cute that you love stinky French cheese as much as you do, and you are so patient as you wait for our table scraps, it’s really hard to say no to you. We call it “waiting with enthusiasm”. I love that you like all kinds of food. Among the list are beet greens, asparagus, carrots, stinky cheese, celeriac, figs, apples, tomatoes, lettuce, broccoli. There is actually very little that you are not interested in. We still haven’t tried having a dinner party of more than 4 people. It should be interesting as you are still very willing to take a chance on counter surfing if you think you can get away with it. We’ll have to rent extra high bar style tables or something. Or I guess we’ll just have to take a chance on you.<\/p>\n

You are getting so affectionate lately and we love it. This morning, as I was lying in bed, listening to your pitter pattering feet, I wondered why the sound had suddenly stopped. When I looked over, I found you, standing in position next to the bed, waiting patiently for your morning back rub. And last night you sat next to Tom, all curled up while he rubbed your belly. I hear that yesterday afternoon you had him trapped on the couch, all curled up and snoring, sound asleep on his lap. You are the dog that once only knew how to get attention by destroying our belongings, jumping on us, or barking non-stop. Now you know how loved you are. Now you are much better at asking for attention without driving us batty… Though you still love to drive us batty every once in a while, for old time’s sake.<\/p>\n

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You’ve been very gentle with kids lately and I am so grateful for that. Sometimes at the dog park, you follow around the little 3 year old girl and just touch your nose to her hand every now and again. I wish you’d stop jumping on people at the dog park though. Especially when it’s rainy. People prefer less mud on their clothes. You get away with a lot with your doe eyes of yours and those silky soft, adorable bat ears, but the jumping is not becoming.<\/p>\n

We still haven’t tried taking you off leash anywhere but a safe fenced in dog park. I feel like you get closer and closer every day but i know if a squirrel comes into your view, there’s no way you’ll listen to us. I also still worry that you’ll get all excited about a kid and want to jump on them. I don’t want to be responsible for any life-long dog phobias. You have a very strong personality and some kids might find that a bit scary.<\/p>\n

We love you, love you, love you so much. I’m so glad things seem to be working out for all of us. I know we can be a bit boring but we do our best. You love you to pieces and want you to be happy. But we also want to have our own human adult lives so you’ll just have to cope. We’ll try to take you more and more to pubs, cafes, restaurants where your kind if welcome. You are the best dog ever and I can’t imagine having any other dog but you. To me you are the perfect dog… well except for the barking. We learned that we have to run the air purifier at night as a sort of white noise generator, otherwise you wake us up every 2 hours with startlingly loud barking. I know you want to protect us, but we hate it. Opossums really can’t do us any harm. The worst they could do is mess with the vegetable garden and you seem to be the queen at destroying the garden. Maybe you’re worried about competition.<\/p>\n

We love you baby, keep being adorable.<\/p>\n

View lots of photos of Mississippi<\/a> on my flickr account.<\/p>\n

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