Big Dog House

BACKGROUND INFORMATION TO THE STORY:

In a last couple of weeks our housemate was giving us slight hints about her intention to bring her dog over, such as placing a framed picture of her dog on the dining room table. Since we knew that her dog rearing abilities were earlier proved very poor, we were not too keen to agree. At the same time me and Spider, being nice people, we did not feel we can turn her down straight away, so we agreed on a trial period.

So, there they were yesterday evening, Jenny & Jossie, the former being our housemate, the latter being our new housepet.

Jossie is a kind of undetermined dog breed, or at least I cannot determine it using my best canine knowledge. What I know for sure is that she is fat and spoiled, but still quite adorable creature.

And for all of you, who don't want to miss out on this, I set up this weblog diary where I will be posting daily updates from the Big Dog House.

Big Dog House, Day 1

The trial started rather catastrophically. What happened was exactly what I feared would happen. Since Jenny's room is next to mine and the walls are paper-thin, I can always hear when she wakes up and gets ready to go to work. Think what you want, but particularly on the first morning I wanted to have a look into how it will all work, how will she manage to go out with the dog before going to work for 9am so I was listening to what is going on next door.

8:00 Signs of movement there, marching down the stairs to the bathroom to have a shower.

About ten minutes later: I go down to the loo and meet jossie on the stairs where she is not allowed, so I tell Jennifer. I get a reply to tell the dog off and that she will go out with her soon.

8:20ish The door slamms and I am going downstairs to have a breakfast, relieved that everything went smoothly. To my great surprise I find Jossie there, twisting her tail and looking at me with expectation of adventure!!!

It does not take a genius to work out, that the dog actually was not walked that morning. I can think of two alternatives:

Alternative one: a better one in a sense - Jenny let the dog to pee and crap in our backyard, which I'm strongly opposed to with a prospect of summer barbecues accompanied by the smell of dog excrements.

Alternative two: we will find a nice surprise on the carpet when we get home, because the poor creature could not hold it any longer...