Your Gonna Miss This Moment

This week I am sharing my feelings about my dog.............

Right now at this very moment....this dog is DRIVING me CRAZY. He is 10 years old in the picture above and a nutcase. Sure if I had no one else to look after except for him (like 6 years ago pre-children) then I am pretty sure we would have no issues.

BUT......right now this animal is seriously a lunatic and yes I know I am too... but I am human and a mother of four under 6 years of age with no husband around during the week so I am allowed a little loopy time.

For the past 9 years (after the terrible puppy years and before I got smart and bought a kennel) this dog was a decent animal. We could leave him alone in the house and he would usually stay out of trouble with the exception of the time he stole a whole raw beef roast off the kitchen counter when I was in the bathroom.

BUT NOW....forget it..like I said he is a lunatic so I had to start kenneling him once more.

Here is proof of his instability....

After a few days of picking up this garbage over and over again...I have given up and I just left it laying on the floor of the garage for the past week...I just don't have the energy or time for that game and besides USUALLY no visitors are in my garage, not too mention when I put him in the garage for a break from his "hacking" it keeps him busy.

Then this past week I left him in his Kennel and he broke out of it...AGAIN

Luckily I shut my office door where the kennel is otherwise who knows what my house would have looked like. So I only had this to pick up....

He only got into this garbage because of the diaper...the rest of it is scrapbooking paper.

Of course we NEVER brought any of this on ourselves.

HA HA Yup...we sure did.

Our dog was basically our child for the first five years of our marriage. I LOVED this animal...I mean truly LOVED him but that time is passing. I want to want to pet him, and cuddle like we used to but I'm zapped by the time the kids are down for the night. And then there is the outright ridiculous behaviour that makes me want to give him away.

But this post is supposed to be about what I'll miss and there are things I will miss when it's his time to go which at the age of 11 and how he hacks up a lung lately it may be soon.

I'll miss how cute he was as a puppy....

I'll miss how goofy he was as a puppy.....

And how goofy he still is....

How awesome he was and still is with the kids...

And I have to admit he is a GREAT guard dog because of how loud his bark is...that is until someone sees him and they start laughing.

I wish I could find it in me to be the "master" I was. I feel bad every time I have to haul his sorry butt outside or in the garage (because he shivers and barks at the door if it's too cold outside...sigh). But I really cannot handle how high maintenance he is...he always has been, but I am at a maximum for stress level lately.

That being said I am not "into" putting a dog "down" just because I am tired of owning him. I will let the crazy hound live with us until it's his time to go chasing gophers up in the great beyond. But until then I pray for much more patience to handle his crazy antics everyday.

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