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This dog is driving me CRAZY!!!

dances_in_garden

16 years ago

Will somebody please come and tell Ruby that it is NOT time to go upstairs and wait for DD to come home yet? Every day she starts bugging me earlier and earlier.

See, when DD comes home Ruby gets her dinner shortly after. I guess she figures that the earlier DD gets home, the earlier she can eat. And since DD coming home seems to be CAUSED by us going upstairs to wait for her, the earlier we do that the better - right?

She keeps clawing at me and huffing and oomphing and spitting at me. AARGH.

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kframe19
16 years ago
I'll raise you one...

Mason decided to start showing me who's boss.

By marking on the end of my bed.

Every time I think I have that issue settled, he's marked again. I really think he does it because he's mad at me that I'm not home.

So, he can have free run of the downstairs. Upstairs is now off limits when I'm at work.
jannie
16 years ago
My sister has two dogs. Both are always on a diet, they are fat and lazy. One, named Roxy, starts howling for food as soon as it gets dark.
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My mother's dog knows when it's noon because of the chimes on the clock and she gets a treat at noon.

My Missy knows when she goes out to potty, she gets a treat when she comes in, so sometimes she fake pees.

I think there are some spoiled rotten critters amongst us. lol
susanjf_gw
16 years ago
think cats are worse...mine start the minute they smell dinner cooking...in the am, (5 am yuck) since dh gets up to run, they think they should be fed...
my dd's cats are worse! they step on her face!
des_arc_ya_ya
16 years ago
I feel your pain, girl, I really do.

Signed:

Roxie's Mom
sjarz
16 years ago
I agree, Cats are much worse! My big guy knows exactly what he gets and when. He gets 5 or 6 little cat treats when I get up, generally between 6 and 7. Some mornings he'll decide around 4 that it's time for me to get up and will start biting my toes - if I tell him it's not time to get up he'll go away for a few minutes and then come back and bite harder...or he'll lay on my chest and purr his loudest, that's what he was doing this morning...he weighs 16 pounds so it's not the nicest...
he knows he gets supper when I get home, which is normally around 5pm. If it's getting past 5 and I am in my office down the hallway finishing something up, the yowling starts.
I pretend I'm the boss around here, but it's just to make myself feel better...ROFL.
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Maggie4
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sjarz....Your cat looks and seems to act like our Toots. She does the same things. Toots lays on her back -like the picture- and crys when it is time to go to bed. She usually sleeps at the foot of the bed. Ours is part siamese with beautiful blue eyes. She was a throw-away, Wrong coloring. She is the best but we have really spoiled her. So glad we found her.
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Sjarz, your big guy reminds me so much our (now passed) Tippy. I loved him so.

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