They said they were leaving about 9am Saturday and would come back about 3pm Sunday. Sure enough they dropped off the 1yr old puppy named Mardi (she was borne in Louisiana) right at 9am.
Holy freaking excitement in our house! As soon as the leash came off she started running like a bat out of hell throughout the whole house! She was SOOO excited to be in a different place and so she just ran around aimlessly at full tilt:
Our neighbor brought over a portable crate as a place for Mardi to sleep. He warned me that she has yet to spend a night in it, and that she probably wouldn't go willingly.
Um, we quickly found two other creatures that were willing to see what the crate was all about:
We also found out that one of her favorite things is to play 'tug of war' with her doggie rope. I've always loved playing that with dogs, so needless to say that was a huge hit in our house:
Ian liked playing Tug of War, but Mardi is a strong pup and could drag Ian around the carpet if he held on long enough. But since he really couldn't, and Mardi would win out every single time, it quickly turned into a game of 'keep away':
We were told that Mardi is a definite mooch in the kitchen and won't touch the food in her bowl until she was SURE that she wouldn't get any food from people. Looking as cute as she did, I see how she adopted that technique...she was hard to resist!:
Around 1:30 Leah went down for her nap, so it started to calm down in the house. Mardi was banished to the basement where we kept it chill so as not to wake up Babycakes. Mardi layed down too and took a power nap herself. Ian was afraid that she would get cold:
And yes, she really was sleeping!:
After Allison got home from work we put Mardi in her crate and went out and ran some errands. She didn't put up a fuss at ALL about going in, so that made it easy to leave, as we didn't have to hear her barking as we walked out of the house.
We got home a few hours later and I took her for a short walk around our yard so I could be back in time to put the kids to bed. Then after they were down, Mardi and I went for a walk around the block. I quickly discovered that she actually liked to run...so we ran the majority of it, except for when she stopped dead in her tracks to sniff the property of those houses with dogs.
We got back and she just kind of plopped down in front of the fire while I chilled and watched a movie:
Again, no protests going into her crate for the night.
Sunday was more of the same: Playing, running, playing, running, etc. until our neighbors came to pick her up.
It was a lot of fun to have her for the short duration, but I think it shows that we're probably not ready for a dog at this point in our life. I think we need to wait until we're in a bigger house and the kids are older.
There is nothing definitive going on with the house, so I'll hold off on reporting on that.
Until next time, don't forget the courtesy flush.
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2 comments:
Couldn't just leave it as a really sweet dog story. Had to put in the item about flushing, huh?
Great way to wear out the kids! Getting them into the crate is one better :-)
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