lauralyrics (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} lauralyrics) wrote,@ 2007-12-01 20:00:00 |
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We bought Maggie a dog bed a few months back. Billed as "indestructible," the bed had the stuffing taken out of it--literally--in under two hours.
Dog's first disobedience made me think of the fruit of that forbidden tree--forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. Which is why I spent four hours sitting on a new dog bed--literally--establishing my right to it. My dog bed. Mine. No dogs allowed. Especially not dogs named Maggie. Uh-uh.
My plan is: if Maggie thinks she's not allowed on the dog bed, she will want to be on the dog bed. (This is the only dog I've ever had to double-bluff.) And so she will, given the opportunity, sneak onto it when I'm not looking and Be a Good Dog. (This happened with the couch. She was not allowed on the couch. But then she snuck up onto it, and she was so quiet and looked so cute, and so she stayed.) Thus far, she has climbed quietly onto the dog bed and even fallen asleep on it! But then she has also sporadically tried to dig it up and pull the fleece off it. We have a ways to go.
I just hope she adjusts soon, because I'm starting to feel kind of silly, sitting on a dog bed. And it's starting to throw my back out.
Dog's first disobedience made me think of the fruit of that forbidden tree--forbidden fruit tastes sweetest. Which is why I spent four hours sitting on a new dog bed--literally--establishing my right to it. My dog bed. Mine. No dogs allowed. Especially not dogs named Maggie. Uh-uh.
My plan is: if Maggie thinks she's not allowed on the dog bed, she will want to be on the dog bed. (This is the only dog I've ever had to double-bluff.) And so she will, given the opportunity, sneak onto it when I'm not looking and Be a Good Dog. (This happened with the couch. She was not allowed on the couch. But then she snuck up onto it, and she was so quiet and looked so cute, and so she stayed.) Thus far, she has climbed quietly onto the dog bed and even fallen asleep on it! But then she has also sporadically tried to dig it up and pull the fleece off it. We have a ways to go.
I just hope she adjusts soon, because I'm starting to feel kind of silly, sitting on a dog bed. And it's starting to throw my back out.
