Walking Over the Man
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 3:44PM 
In this house Nathan loves his naps. I rarely get them unless I am so fried I can't make sense. But he loves to take one dog or 2 upstairs and catch some serious zzzs.
Thing is with Dennis doing nights and me doing pups during the day for the most part, he's it after I finish grooming for the adults. That changes when the pups reach 4 weeks. They sleep upstairs and Dennis sleeps nights again. He has 2 more weeks to get there.
So Nathan crawls into the tv room and so do the dawgs and then they proceed to walk all over him. Today Andy was part of this craziness and seemed to fit in nicely. I think he is missing Maxine.
I am not sure if Nathan is actually sleeping or just trying. I 'get' his voicing "I get no sleep."
Katsura is the worst as he walks up and down your body. It's how he wakes you up. His momma Risa does similar but I don't allow so they saunter up to me and lick my face. That I can handle. They snuggle with me, lay between the legs, draped over the head but don't walk up my body. I think its a claustrophobic thing.
It's not that I don't love the dogs. I absolutely do. I just have boundaries and they respect them.
It's sort of like our kids. For years they went into Nathan's closet and took his socks and he would have to buy more and more and he always complained that he never had any. As adults they still do it. Me, I said you ask you don't take anything of mine. Of course they tried over the years but they finally learned that I wouldn't tolerate it. The dogs are similar.
Neither is wrong. You just have less to complain about and better behavior my way. hahahahahaha
Reader Comments (2)
So funny, love the picture, you can barely see Nathan... and the comments. It is so true, it is what we can all tolerate and they do learn if we are consistent.
Chinook will come and stand on me or lay on me in the morning , until I acknowledge him, and now Breeze will too but she is so light i can't even feel her :) But then I tell them off and they lay beside me and we talk about our day and I give them a nice massage before we get up. We all have our rituals.
stella is exactly like her daddy , she drapes herself over my neck and gives kisses. then she likes to stand and lay on my chest while i pat her. this is our routine. stella is having her christmas card photos taken on sunday. should be a lot of fun.