Citizen Power

I just got a very distracting, very energetic puppy named Gracie. She’s a 6-month old Puggle, which is half beagle, and half pug.  She is a major handful and is cutting down my computer time drastically, so far, but I don’t think that will last. She is just getting used to her new home and to her new masters (of the universe), which means I’m chasing her around the house a lot and cleaning up messes, when we are not going on walks.  So far it has rained every day which has made the walks wet, muddy and overall a lot less fun than they should be.

She has so far attempted to eat all sorts of things she found outside that are very bad for her, (including cat poop) which has made me see that having a dog is going to be quite a bit more gross, and demanding of my full attention, than my 2 old cats are.  So if I miss a day or two in writing online, she is the reason.  It’s hard to even read a newspaper with her around, online or the paper kind.  And talk about energy. This puppy has energy to spare!  If we could find a way to capture and store it, she could probably power my appliances, at least.

She is  learning basic puppy commands and so far all she knows is “sit”.  She lies down on her own though without being told.  She leads me during walks, and that’s not good, especially since she will eat anything and everything that looks interesting.  I even took somebody’s old piece of gum out of her mouth today.  If anyone know how to keep her from eating everything in sight, let me know . . .  I do feed her a lot of really good puppy food!

And I am quite sure that “slobber” is a noun because it’s all over her toys. . . .