Max & Ollie: Rainy morning
11 Sep
Max hates to be toweled off after a rainy walk:
Ollie savors it:
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The list of crazy
14 May
WM and I are taking a trip VERY soon, and Max and Ollie will be spending the time in the kennel. It’s a great place and they’ve both been there before – Max quite a few times.
But…guh. It casts a small shadow on my trip to know they’ll be there. Because I’m genetically predisposed to worry, here is an incomplete list of the things that have been dancing through my mind. This is mostly so I can see how dumb I’m being.
- They will be lonely without us.
- They will be frightened and think we’re never coming back.
- They will be cold.
- They will be hot.
- They will be afraid of the flappy doorway that will let them go outside and play
- One of them will lick the Frontline spot on the other, get poisoned and die.
- There’s a sadistic employee there who loves kicking dogs.
- They will go on a hunger strike.
- There won’t be a “double” available (‘though we reserved one) so they’ll get split up into separate pens and they’ll be doubly lonely and doubly scared.
- Ollie’s groomer will call the SPCA on us because his “thumbnails” are starting to curl back on themselves and his fur is matted under his front legs.
- The place will burn down.
Seeing that list makes me want to crawl into a hole. It’s also why WM gave me a Mother’s Day card from the pets this year. 
