She knows

I have to travel once again, which means placing my pup at her favorite boarding spot. But she is moping around and has decided while I sit here typing to stand by my legs. I am on a stool, so her back fits perfectly under my legs. She is also looking at me with some very soulful eyes and sighing. She must have seen my bag or her bag sitting by the door filled with her food. How do they know? My Boston used to do the same thing when we were traveling. I will have to find some special treat while I am away and spend the first few days when I get back with a lot of puppy attention. Wish I could take her with me but it is a long drive and she is not the savviest car puppy. Maybe one day she will be able to travel with us.

Still Chewing

 I thought Kai was past the chewing things up stage, but last night I was corrected on that piece of information. Kai came into the TV room last night with goo on her face. We could not figure out where it came from, so I did a search of the house. Well, let me just say I found out where the gelatin came from. To understand you have to know that I am a breast cancer survivor, and that I elected to have a mastectomy but not reconstructive surgery. I use a prosthesis on my right side. I have several forms, one in which I use for swimming. I had place this on my bed as I packed for going out of town. Kai apparently felt that she needed to see what this thing was, so she chewed around the edges. I am thankful to be a girl scout and always prepared, because I had bought two of them, not cheap but you never know what can happen.

Today Kai was watching me fold laundry and had decided to jump on the bed. I am thinking what a good girl she is nestled up next to my husbands jeans. But I noticed that her jaw line was moving. She had one of the belt loops and was casually chewing it while I folded the laundry. If I had not noticed that little flick of her jaw, my husbands loop would be completely gone. I guess she is bored. I am getting ready to board her again, so maybe she will get some of her boredom to go away. I will give her a long walk tonight, unless we get a thunderstorm.

I guess I am going to go back to locking doors to keep Little Miss Mouth away from things. SO far she has left my shoes alone.

Walking between the raindrops

I do not like to walk in thunderstorms and luckily today I did not have to. I was debating around 9 to take Kai for a walk before it started to rain, by 9:10 we were having a lovely thunderstorm. Since they called for storms all day, I was wondering what I was going to do with a 30 LB sock thief all day. She started out with socks, when the chase did not happen as fast as she wanted, she found a new source. A toilet paper roll that had not been placed on the holder yet. It was big enough and squishy enough that she grabbed and started heading for the back door. But when I got to the back door she had placed it in her crate. I guess she thought I would not be able to get to it, BAHAHA, but I did and she looked at me with her big brown eyes, but I did not fold. Then she disappeared for a bit to go get a shoe. Crud, if she is in shoe phase I am in a world of hurt. So it was 10:00 am the sun was not out, but no thunder, no rain, quickly got on my shoes, raincoat and grabbed the leash. 42 minutes later we were home and Kai is somewhat tuckered out. I will play a rousing game of fetch the monkey in a bit, but now she is content to lay down so I will hold that energy buster for later. Maybe I will work on her training. Hopefully, this other rainstorm coming through will be over just as quickly as the first and we will get that second walk in this afternoon. Anything to save the shoes.

Speak to your Mother

Today Kai was pestering my husband for food. He had not even sat down yet and she was all over him. I think it was just in greeting, she loves her adopted daddy. So he says to her I do not have any bacon, if you want bacon talk to your mother. Kai turns around and goes WOOWOOWOO. Like she is chastising me for not having any bacon for her. It was perfect timing to my husbands request, and the fact that she actually turned to me after was super funny. Love this dog.