Put your best paw forward!

“There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. “

Ben Williams

Who ever said having a dog is nothing like having a child is ooouu so mistaken.  As you might remember from one of my previousposts, I have a very special now 6,5 months old dog Papi.

Papi and I are going through various stages of his early doghood. From the very beginning he learned that touching my shoes and clothes is strictly forbidden, as he got his behind whooped with newspaper when he did it. 

Much harder thing for him to accept was my packed work schedule so he got quite mad when he had to stay home alone for long hours, he got to mad that he decided to make a point by eating my vanilla candles, all of the buttons on my pillows and bed cover, peeing on my bed mattress if I left him alone during evening hours without a light on. 

"If your dog doesn't like someone you probably shouldn't either."

Unknown

“A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.”

Josh Billings

Obviously, I had to adjust my work schedule to accommodate Papi’s needs to I started leaving work early (5pm) and going home to feed him and take him out and then continued to work from home.

“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man's.”

 Mark Twain

“A dog can express more with his tail in seconds

than his owner can express with his tongue in hours. “

Author Unknown

“My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet.”

Edith Wharton

“My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am.”

Author Unknown

“If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.”

 Roger Caras

    Also, he went through various stages of running like he has two legs only, simultaneously jumping around “rabbit style”, being afraid of men with beard and mustaches, taking wooden branches he finds outside home and hiding them under my bed, up to now when he is a bit older to running like he is three legged, two front legs each on its own and then two back legs together and he stopped ruining my apartment under condition that he gets some sweets each morning and a bone to keep him busy, his current thing is that he plays scared of stepping down the street curb, he starts wining and bends down as he is about jump of the cliff (this last for like 10 seconds) and he just continues to walk.

"In a perfect world, every dog would have a home and every home would have a dog."

“Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.”

 Emily Dickinson

From the very start Papi made a point he is not a circus dog and he will not sit and lie down or do tricks. He will do it only to get a cookie or to imitate what you are doing so my boyfriend has taught him to together lay on the floor and play dead and my friend Iva taught him to jump on people with no reason at all. There, he knows some tricks.

“Dogs never bite me. Just humans.”

Marilyn Monroe

"Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way."

the character Jules in Pulp Fiction

Papi and I have our own little routines, in the morning he needs few minutes of cuddling, when I drink coffee he eats his breakfast, I brush his hair and then he plays with his buddy Max at 8am, I go to work and he does God knows what for eight hours, their second play date is around 11pm. During weekends he plays with Cesar each Saturday morning at 10am while Sundays we go to Dog Park close to our house for few hours of play.

Do you have any interesting routines to share you do with your pet?

Roko - the worlds wirdest dog

Sunday, 28th of July

Dear all...I have been mentioning him in many of my posts..As he is rather peculiar creature...This time I decided to attach his picture as well, for your better understanding of his character (I haven’t still figured him out but maybe you will).

On the left you see his picture about 6 months ago...now he looks pretty much the same, although his legs are longer...nothing else changed really. Roko still hasn’t learned to pee like a male dogs do; he is still scared of everything. Roko is hardly a macho, house protecting, hunting and fearless kind of dog. The only word I can really use to describe Roko is: awkward. He actually behaves more like a human that like a dog.

In spite of all of our efforts, Roko is very misbehaved, we even had to take him to see a dog trainer, who refused to work with him after 2 days, as Roko continued to pee on his leg ( he never does it to us, I promise). The trainer said that Roko has his own will and will listen to nobody, he said he have never seen a dog like him.

Roko doesn’t sit, does not lie down when you ask him to...but he will gladly eat the cookies. If you yell at him he cries like a baby, and when my father is around he runs and jumps into his lap shaking (I swear he does), awkward right? I know!!!

Every day something new happens with this dog, another incident, as our neighbors like to call it. I have stop telling my friends about it, they do not believe me, well, that’s until they meet Roko.

Last night for example, yet again( Saturday night) he had waken up the whole neighborhood, he was crying and hauling like crazy. I woke up and I thought it had started to rain or something, which would kind of make sense because Roko is terrified of rain and hates to get wet, so than he cries and demands that we stand by his little house until he falls a sleep (again, weird, but my dad does it out of embarrassment in front of our neighbors).

This time it was not raining, I took a flashlight and annoyed went to see what’s going on (it was 4am); I found that some slimy snail have entered his house and Roko was scared and could not sleep.

Naturally, I was also scared, so I woke up my dad to take the snail out. We gave Roko a brave cookie (which is how we call special colorful cookies he will eat, only) and again, dad was standing by his house until Roko fall a sleep.

So that was the latest and the greatest with Roko.

Ouu yea...and another thing...I try to play catch with him..Roko seems to like it a lot, although whenever I throw a ball, he runs up to it and brings me a leaf...how weird is that? Every single time I throw a BALL he finds a leaf to bring..and completely ignores the ball.

Love life: Uff...lots of interesting stuff lately... I am considering offers, although not yet acting upon any. July will be very interesting, in terms of getting in touch with what I really feel. I am actually looking forward to finding it out...as paintful it might be later, it is worth of checking, just in case.....you never know.

xoxo

~Kat