Dr Copa Scrip for Success

Several months ago my wife signed up for a profile on a website called care.com so that she would be considered for the position of occassional pet walker. She thought it would be a fun way to make a few extra dollars from time to time. She loves dogs. Anyway, she got a job this weekend to go to a lady’s house and let her dog outside twice a day and feed and water him. The dog’s name is Spaghetti! I have to wonder why in the world would someone name their dog Spaghetti! I think that they need another one now and name it Meatballs.

My wife has been complaining that I have not been paying close enough attention to the house manners (or lack thereof) of our dogs.  Ever since we got Riley, Pita has regressed to marking everything in the house, and then Riley marks, and then Pita marks.  My wife has been asking me to confine them to the rooms that aren’t carpeted, and to pay close attention to them, and warning me to not put things on the floor that I didn’t want to get peed on, but I  really didn’t realize it was really that big of a deal and was ignoring my wife’s words of caution until I saw both of them lift their legs on my brand new leather laptop bag that my daughter gave me for Father’s Day!

I was not happy about that at all, I can tell you that!  So after cleaning the bag I put it up on top of my desk and complained to my wife about it she simply smiled at me and said “oh really? you don’t say!”  I hate it when she’s right!  But I don’t want to confine the dogs to the kitchen, either!  Not quite sure what to do with this situation other than to put doggy diapers on them both.

Thankfully my children never colored on anything inappropriate. Although the dog does not seem to mind being the canvas, I have to wonder about the parenting. Why would someone go get the camera and take a picture of this rather than grabbing the crayon out of his hand to stop the coloring? And perhaps a smack on the butt was is order, too.

To know that there are so many people out there that are serious hoarders is pretty frightening. The Learning Channel has an interesting hoarding show, Hoarders: Buried Alive, which is about people who have had a traumatic life experience and have turned to hoarding for one reason or another. Their homes are not only over flowing with items but are in severe need of hard core repair and a major cleaning. It is just mind boggling!

I think that the Animal Planet has the other hoarding show that is about folks hoarding animals. These people, who for the most part, are very lonely people, are turning to animals, but way too many animals.  It isn’t surprising to see on this show that many people have 30, 40, 50, or some times even more, pets (mainly cats and dogs) under their care and you can only imagine the damage and the filth that these people are living in.

These shows are an interesting insight to a growing problem with hoarders. At the end of each show they provide you with information on how to help some one that you might know with this type of problem.

Yesterday I took two of our dogs to the vet. Neither one of them was acting right. Seems he thinks one of them might have an ear infection OR a brain tumor. He said we’d give her some pain medication every day over the weekend and see if they helped. If the medication does not help, then her days are numbered. I really love that little dog. The other dog he took blood tests and we’re waiting for the results on them. It is going to be a tense weekend.