Currently in Book Seven: Reconstruction 2020
- March 13, 2020, 12:12 p.m.
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Last night, I made food and had a healthy dinner. Gave Nala a big walk (her second as Martha had given her a walk as well). I really thought Nala would have slept. But she woke me up at 3 to go outside. Same thing. Just walks outside, sits on the porch, and waits. I gave her about ten minutes of that before I encouraged her to come back inside. When she did, she looked at me and kind of guided me to a place in the living room. Ah. There was… an accident of some kind on the carpet. It was the shape of vomit but the color and smell of poop. So… honestly, no idea. Nala is still eating poop, so it could have been vomit. Just… no idea what was going on. So I sprayed it, wiped it, sprayed it, wiped it… placed a chair over it to keep Nala from licking the area. Hopefully that takes care of it. But Nala didn’t come back to the bedroom. Spent the rest of the evening sleeping on the couch. When I woke up and got ready? No movement. She lifted her head as I filled her food bowl but that was about it. Not surprisingly, I’m feeling tired.
Got into work and… boss is gone. Victim Witness Coordinator is gone. So… a bit of a lonely and slow day, all told. My calendar suggests I should (1) respond to three cases and (2) tightly schedule next week. Obviously, that isn’t exactly the kind of thing likely to take 8 hours. And I wouldn’t say I’m in the best state of mind for that anyway. If I could take out my thought map and carve it up to illustrate the various simultaneous thoughts I’m having it would be something like the following:
SexyStoryFantasy
Irish Standards playing in my Head
Fury over Idiots
Desire to actually be Shang Tsung
Worry for Nala
Curiosity about My Weekend.
That’s where my brain is right now. And kind of a general malaise… kind of a funk. So that’s my headspace right now.
So… for that reason… I bring you memes and stuff from Chive.
Down the rabbit hole... ⋅ March 13, 2020
I would take her to the vet just in case if she continues to act off. It could just be the environmental change, but the throwing up or whatever it was is concerning.
Filiola ⋅ March 13, 2020
Dogs have a tendency to create new and weird habits on occasion. It might have only taken one night of her waking up and needing to pee outside and now she’s conditioned that it’s part of her routine to be up and being a bugger at 3am. Our dog would randomly start a midnight pacing habit, then that would stop and then he’s start a routine where he would “forget” he was supposed to go outside and pee next to the doggy door. Often if just takes you giving a different reaction for a few days to curb it e.g when she whines at night and wants to do the outside thing, don’t get up and instead ignore her or encourage her to get back into bed with you and go back to sleep. It’s unlikely she can’t hold her pee all night every night. She just needs boundaries and to have a routine enforced.
I know you feel guilty towards this dog, but dogs don’t understand guilt. Giving dogs boundaries makes them feel comfortable. Rules and routine make them secure. You need to be her pack leader. Placing human emotions onto her and leading from your guilt will only make her feel less secure and be more likely to play up.
Purple Dawn ⋅ March 13, 2020
Give your dog some cooked rice, it settles their stomachs :)
AppleGirl ⋅ March 13, 2020
We had a dog that ate their own poo ..ended up they were vitamin deficient. Got some vitamins, no more poop eating!