Dolly Sitting
My dad comes back from Amsterdam sometime today and he’ll be picking Dolly up on his way home. This last week’s been fun, but I can’t say I’ll be sorry to see her go; if only because I could use a good night’s sleep free of sound-barrier-breaking snoring. I think Yara was pretty stressed out having her here, too, which I feel very bad about.
But, as you can see above, they do get along well enough. Yara finally got over her need to take every toy from Dolly and I found them both many times contentedly chewing bones next to each other. The bed sharing thing is really cute. Most of the time they go to bed on separate beds (usually the other dog’s bed) and at some point during the night one of them squishes her way onto a different bed. This past night was the first time I caught them both in Yara’s bed.
I’d figured the biggest problems we’d have would be feeding and walking. Meal times seemed to get increasingly annoying as Dolly started working up more courage around Yara. She’d continually sneak into the kitchen, though thankfully she never tried to steal Yara’s food. I was surprised that Yara didn’t growl at her one time this whole week, especially when Dolly was stalking her dinner. Instead, walks were the biggest pain. Both dogs ALWAYS wanted to go out whenever I’d pick up a leash. Even if she’d been out already to relieve. Yara was exceptionally annoying with her bouncing around and stuff. I’ve been taking her out second each time because of just this, hoping that she’ll calm down by the time she gets to go out. I don’t think she’s really gotten the clue as it generally takes us ten minutes to get out the door when I come back because I have to keep working with her to not drag me out the door when I open it.
One morning, I didn’t leave the door properly closed when I took Dolly out and Yara squished her way through it. I didn’t even realize, until I subconsciously cued into the fact that there were a lot of extra footsteps. Yara was heeling completely in step between Dolly and us. When I stopped, she ran off ahead of us and parked her rear at the elevator. She’s really such a character sometimes.
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2 Comments on Dolly Sitting
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Raechel on
Sun, 20th Apr 2008 9:15 am
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Cyndy on
Sun, 20th Apr 2008 10:17 am
Awwww….they look so cute together :)
They are pretty adorable when they aren’t super insane dogs.
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