Dear Psycho Baby Child,
Every week you seem to discover a new way to completely exhaust and aggravate the rest of us.
Your daddy things you are good as gold and can do no wrong.
He only sees you at the end of the day, when you are TIRED thanks to my efforts to wrangle you into a decent representation of the canine race
All.
Day.
Long.
Plus, he decided (again) that you needed to be eating more.
Excuse me while I put my head through a wall.
The two days of mist/drizzle, followed by a day of overcast, damp and chilly were very much a struggle- for all of us.
Even now that the weather is nice again and you can spend most of the day playing outside doesn't really help.
Going outside to pick up all poop prior to letting you out doesn't really help.
Between the obsessive squirrel-chasing, the obsessive racing around the yard, nose to the ground, sniffing out phantom poop (because I already snatched it up), and the obsessive whining at the dog next door/pestering your sisters in the canine form of "I'm touching you. I'm touching youuuuu!"-
I'm fed up.
The excitement is uncontrollable.
There has been much yelling (and it has been discovered that yelling causes you to shut down, rather than cooperate, so... that's out).
God, I wish we could neuter you. That would solve so much.
Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Wednesday, November 2, 2016
39 Weeks (9 Months)
39 Weeks
9 Months Old
81.5 lbs
*sigh* upped your food portions (again), against my better judgements, because your daddy started harping on (again) that you "looked skinny". Tried explaining to him that, at 5c/day, you are still well within the bag's "8-12 month" range of "4 and 1/3-5 and 1/2c/day". 5 and 1/2 c was just too much a month ago. Maybe it's not now. I conceeded an extra 1/3c/ per meal, so 5 and 2/3c/day, not quite 5 and 1/2... I still don't think you need to be eating the 12 month range of food at 9 months old. Reminded him that puppies reach their adult "size" by the age of 6 months, though their weight (mainly increased muscle) continues to fill out for another year or so... You, at 80-something lbs, have plenty of time to finish growing. You don't need to gain 100lbs all in the first year. 15-ish more lbs, put on slowly, is better, and perfectly normal.
Geez.
Walking has been ok. You're not pulling quite so much. A few more loose dog encounters and near misses. The little dog on the opposite side of the street on Tuesday gave you much cause for concern, but it was fine, though you wouldn't trust me and just keep walking and ignore it like I wanted.
The pile of black garbage bags next to one of the yards we pass often sure freaked you out, today. They weren't a group of black dogs, I promise.
You're having fun chasing squirrels, now that the weather is cooler and they are actively preparing for winter. This also means you're having to polish your "going out the door" manners.
Nighttimes are hit or miss. We had another blissful week of you not waking up to go out at all, and we didn't even take you out at 10pm,l either, but this week, we're back to going out at least once, usually around 12 or 1 (instead of 2 or 4), and you're actually fussing to go out at 10pm...
Just go the fuck to sleep, already.
You and Airlie "had words" over a stray piece of kibble yesterday. She won, I think.
9 Months Old
81.5 lbs
*sigh* upped your food portions (again), against my better judgements, because your daddy started harping on (again) that you "looked skinny". Tried explaining to him that, at 5c/day, you are still well within the bag's "8-12 month" range of "4 and 1/3-5 and 1/2c/day". 5 and 1/2 c was just too much a month ago. Maybe it's not now. I conceeded an extra 1/3c/ per meal, so 5 and 2/3c/day, not quite 5 and 1/2... I still don't think you need to be eating the 12 month range of food at 9 months old. Reminded him that puppies reach their adult "size" by the age of 6 months, though their weight (mainly increased muscle) continues to fill out for another year or so... You, at 80-something lbs, have plenty of time to finish growing. You don't need to gain 100lbs all in the first year. 15-ish more lbs, put on slowly, is better, and perfectly normal.
Geez.
Walking has been ok. You're not pulling quite so much. A few more loose dog encounters and near misses. The little dog on the opposite side of the street on Tuesday gave you much cause for concern, but it was fine, though you wouldn't trust me and just keep walking and ignore it like I wanted.
The pile of black garbage bags next to one of the yards we pass often sure freaked you out, today. They weren't a group of black dogs, I promise.
You're having fun chasing squirrels, now that the weather is cooler and they are actively preparing for winter. This also means you're having to polish your "going out the door" manners.
Nighttimes are hit or miss. We had another blissful week of you not waking up to go out at all, and we didn't even take you out at 10pm,l either, but this week, we're back to going out at least once, usually around 12 or 1 (instead of 2 or 4), and you're actually fussing to go out at 10pm...
Just go the fuck to sleep, already.
You and Airlie "had words" over a stray piece of kibble yesterday. She won, I think.
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