Reset Password
If you've forgotten your password, you can enter your email address below. An email will then be sent with a link to set up a new password.
Cancel
Reset Link Sent
If the email is registered with our site, you will receive an email with instructions to reset your password. Password reset link sent to:
Check your email and enter the confirmation code:
Don't see the email?
  • Resend Confirmation Link
  • Start Over
Close
If you have any questions, please contact Customer Service
Forgot password?
Blogs > Canus2011 > Adventure my ass!

Sleeping late  

Canus2011 57M
Ask me for a photo
177 posts
10/8/2015 7:27 am
Sleeping late
When I first adopted my little mutt, we joke that the old Dr. Hook tune "Sleeping Late" would have been his theme-song. The phrase "Time for Bed" would result in a vapor trail leading to the bedroom and he'd stay there all day long if he had his say in the matter.

As he got older, although he still loved bed ...his bladder eventually started getting the better of him (kinda know how that feels in that regard). Even after I split up with my GF, my family always laughed about how I'd take him out FIRST thing and as soon as we got back, he'd hop directly on the couch and bury his head under the pillows. He was either "not a morning dog" "he looks like I feel" or maybe he'd get an offer or two for some coffee in a dish. It was pretty comical to see.

Now that he's passed 15 (that would be somewhere between 90-120 "years" depending on how you judge it), he has an even harder time. For quite some time, he was getting me up at all hours needing to go out; tempting though it might be to grab him and try squeezing him like a tube of toothpaste, he usually has to walk a little bit before he can do what needs to be done. It made for a sucky nights sleep for me.

I finally reached the conclusion that perhaps I needed to quit sharing my food with him. I don't feed him scraps or anything, but he's just so dang cute when he begs (sit's up and looks like a little penguin) it's hard to turn him down sometimes.


Alas, the elderly one's tummy apparently disliked the food more than the rotten doggy, so I finally quit. He's slowly starting to come around, but he was NOT happy about the new development one. single. bit. For the first few weeks, he was whining and giving me the pitiful starving treatment; I swear he was even trying to suck in his tummy to show how hungry he was (and the little goober has NOT been missing any meals).

I'm not losing any sleep over it.

Literally.

He almost never wakes me up in the middle of the night anymore, and lately he's even been letting me sleep in a little longer; I'm finding myself actually LOOKING FORWARD to daylight savings time, just so I might be able to sleep past eight (holy crap ...if I'm able even!).

I do love my doggums though ...amazing how much company they give!

AJCookie2015 55F
74 posts
10/8/2015 7:53 am

 He's a cutie!!!!


Canus2011 replies on 10/8/2015 8:15 am:
Thanks! ...he's a real sweetheart; I used to take him to the nursing home a few times a week when my father was still alive (that's where that particular picture was taken as a matter of fact). I seldom let his hair get that long anymore (he's become a lot more cantankerous about letting me brush him), but he's cute and he knows it!

pagancountrygirl 66F
Ask me for a photo
6466 posts
10/8/2015 4:02 pm

 He is SO cute! Looks a lot like Toto.
Pagan
Hmmmm....I know I left that wand around here somewhere!


Canus2011 replies on 10/9/2015 7:46 am:
The pound had him listed as "Cairn mix" when I adopted him (which is what Toto was). He is a cute little guy for sure and he DOES know it; problem is that he sometimes has boundary issues and assumes everyone wants to pet and love on him; people who don't like dogs tend to not appreciate it.

wetlipssink00069 59F
1102 posts
10/28/2015 5:16 pm

 I created a monster with Lilly. And she is half pug. She gets this really sad look if I don't share. Sometimes she has a lot o drool, lol. It's me and my pup in our cave. Wet


Canus2011 replies on 10/29/2015 8:02 am:
Zeke used to sit up in the penguin pose (his hearing is largely gone now and I wonder a bit if that's why he's become so much more vocal in the last couple of years) and then he'd give a little yip ..then reach out and tap you with his paw.

The "creation of a monster" was in teaching him tricks (including the "beg") ...the worst was "speak" because when he wants something he goes through the whole bag of tricks, and "speak" gets the most attention (albeit negative). It took ages to UN-teach that one!

wetlipssink00069 59F
1102 posts
10/28/2015 5:17 pm

 Btw, whata cutie!


Become a member to create a blog