LadyGypsy.net – the blog of Kimberly Dowd of New Jersey

While WM and I were in Michigan over Thanksgiving, the pooches were in the kennel, getting treats and scritches. We get them a larger kennel that accommodates them both so they can snuggle when they feel lonely. And despite what a lady at our hotel said (“I could NEVER kennel my dogs, how cruel!”) when we take them to the kennel, they don’t look back. When we pick them up, they lick and cuddle against the staff behind the counter.

Here’s their “report card” from their last stay.

None of this surprises me. Max (I can’t believe he’s 7-8 years old already!) loves to be pet and snuggled. He’s my lap dog. Ollie (I wonder if he answered at all to “Oliver” while there since he never hears it at home.) will fetch and fetch until he drops over from exhaustion. Fetching is his job.

I also love the “I was a little messy” part. Atta boys. You trash that hotel room.

They were playing with the stuffed frog next to my feet when I snapped this one.

The dogs have been doing quite well lately. Max is still a sneaky thief at heart and Ollie’s still hands-down the dumbest dog I’ve ever owned. But that dynamic somehow works for them.

September marked Ollie’s 2-year-mark with us, and like magic something went off in his brain and he realized there’s a life above him. So now if I’ll be sitting on my chair he’ll walk over, put his two front paws on my chair and get completely excited about seeing what’s on my desk. Weird little dog.

It’s hard to believe that Max is 7 or 8 now and the only sign he shows of slowing down is that he lies down more. Otherwise he’s scheming ways to swipe the cat food without us looking or engaged in knock-down, drag-out, face-eating brawls with Ollie. He’s smaller than Ollie but he holds his own!

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Dreams:

1) giGANTic zit in my face and I had to go to work because I had no mire sick days left.

2) World of Warcraft is launching a new dungeon soon. That part is true. In my dream we got to tour the new dungeon. There were souvenir maps, placards indicating where the bad guys would be, and cake & coffee.