Life with Spunky part 2

So I would up with this little brown and black dog that I knew nothing about. I have never had a dog, had a cat my mother hated. When I got sick and had to go in hospital my mother gave my cat away. So we gathered up food, bowls, crate, collar and leash and off we went.

 Remember this is the son's dog he is supposed to crate train him and clean up after him. Yeah right. The dog never got trained and the clean up still goes on.

So stupid me thought maybe there was some other problem with the dogs training so I got a doggie door and installed it in the back door. That was fun sitting on the floor with a level and a power saw.

The thing with the doggie door was that at 2 AM he would go outside and barks at blowing leaves. Had to plug it up at night, which defeated some of the purpose.

My son was too much a softy to put the dog in his crate when he left so he shut him in his room. The dog tore up the carpet at the door and peed on it.

When our neighborhood changed abruptly and it was no longer a safe place to live then getting that carpet fixed turned into a hassle.

We moved and everything was fairly ok for a while except it turned out that Spunky wasn't the son's dog he was mine.

I could not sit down in a chair without getting a dog in my lap. He was up in my bed, followed me from room to room and showed separation anxiety whenever I would leave.

Then the opportunity of a lifetime, or so I thought, was a job traveling all over the country. By this time my son had moved for school purposes and I couldn't leave the dog alone all week. Spunky went to live with my son. Every weekend they would come home and since the dog was mad because I was gone he would pay me back. Pee on the floor, keep me awake, hog the bed, steal my food, and bark for no reason.

Three years of living in a hotel room and constantly being groped by TSA agents and I was time to live at home again.

I have to admit if he were not here I would have gone nuts. He is MY best buddy. I talk to him all the time and he cuddles no questions asked.

Just like me he has gotten a little slower, cannot jump like used to, sleeps a lot and has gas that would drop a horse, but he is my dog and I will love him forever.