**UPDATE** Thanks to all your insights. The feeling has passed. I just needed to vent and get it out of my system!
Growing up, I absolutely hated when I would go into someone's house only to have a huge furry dog come up to me and licking my hand. There would be hair everywhere and the tail would whip you in the legs. They annoyed me to no end. There was poop in the backyard that you had to avoid. You always had to make sure to not let the dog out. It would sit when you wanted it to come. It would run when you wanted it to stay. I really didn't like them.
Then Uncle KC and Aunt Deborah's dog had puppies and we all wanted my Gma and Gpa to have a puppy because man, they were so cute! So we had a puppy at our house for a couple of months until they came home from their mission. It was fun for awhile but then it would bark in the middle of the night and pee in places it shouldn't pee. I was ready to not have the dog live with us any more. And now, even though Fred is great, I do not want to live with him. I'm fine with visiting every couple of months.
But now, after all this non-dog liking, I find myself looking at puppies on sale on ksl.com. They are so cute! I love the black and yellow labs. I love golden retriever puppies. I love them. They are soo darn cute. So, would someone talk some sense into me before I go out and buy myself one. Please?!
"There was poop in the backyard that you had to avoid"...I laughed at this one. I'm pretty sure you need no other info than this. Although I can sympathize because when Dave wanted an English bulldog, I looked on ksl, too, and was thisclose to wanting one.
ReplyDeleteI completely understand wanting a puppy. I just remind myself that if I want to clean up poo, I can always go to work. ;)
ReplyDeleteDitto lynxes comment down to the name and type of dog. This is what a.ways snapped me back into my senses, unless you are going to stay home with the puppy, you will not have a well trained dog. It will eat your shoes and other things you lov, and it will be sad and lonely while you're at work. Always give it a week for the feeling to pass, never buy on impulse!, because chances are the feeling will pass.
ReplyDeleteAnother thing that helps me get over puppy craving is thinking of the cost. When you can't rationalize getting new shoes or something else because that money has to go to dog food, shots or something else for puppy, how happy will u be?
ReplyDeleteYes, Puppy's are cute (from afar), but(in addition to the ones you have already identified) they grow up.
ReplyDeleteRational solution:
If you want a cute dog, find a friend that has one, and meet them in the part to play with the dog. When the pooping, slobering, barking, and shedding get to you, you say to your friend. Lets get together again sometime to play with "[insert dogs name here]"
I say buy one! :)
ReplyDeleteLet me be the first to say from experience: DON'T DO IT! I will let you borrow Harley for one solid week.. if you last that long! lol! Then you tell me if you still want a dog. I actually have a pretty good dog, from what dog loving people tell me.. but I still really don't like him. Unfortunately I don't think you grow out of not really liking dogs, even when it's your own. I've come to the conclusion, that NO.. Dogs aren't like children (dog loving people are shuddering right now!). My children poop in a toilet or in diapers, not on my lawn or the carpet. AND they don't bark at people at the front door and wake up the sleepy babies while napping, or the gardener at the back door and wake up the sleeping baby. And they poop. And if you want to send a little kid out in the backyard to play, that means you have to go out and pick up the poop before they can do so.. so they just aren't allowed to play in the backyard because mom is TOO lazy to pick up the poop. Did I mention... DON'T DO IT!
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