Can you make up your mind????

Baby can jump off the bed very easily. She CAN jump up by herself, but she doesn't like to so she will sit on the floor and make kind of a half hearted attempt and whine at me like "Poor pitiful me, I can't do it." Mike tells her (As he's picking her up and putting her on the bed mind you) that if she'd lose some weight she wouldn't be such a rolly poly and could get up by herself. I tell him part of the reason she can't lose any weight is because they do everything for her. She's become un interested in any kind of exercise.

When I stay at my in laws for any reason, I can leave her outside for awhile because they have a huge fenced in back yard. She doesn't have that here in the apartments. That's one of the reasons why I take her over to Robbie and Ronnie's...to give her some room to run. Unfortunately, they have two big dogs who believe they are lap dogs. So I put her out, and she follows Koti and Jake right back in the doggie door. I end up having to track down the gate to the doggie door and locking them all three outside! But then they stand out on the patio and look at me with their eyes downcast like I've mistreated them. As you can see from the picture, they look very abused and underfed and unloved! LOL

that's TOO funny. My sister in law has two gorgeous huskies. I was over there last week and my mother in law asked me to put the dogs out. Now, keep in mind, they have a doggie door and can use it. When I take Baby over, she can come IN, but isn't tall enough to go OUT. Anyway, Reggie, the UPS guy was at the door. The dogs think they are supposed to be the center of attention at all times. So I opened the patio door and shooed all three of them outside, and then Pat answered the door. I shut the patio door and started across to help the UPS guy get all of Lauren's AVON order in the house. As I bent over to pick up one of the boxes, I felt a cold nose up the back of my shorts! The dogs had come back in the doggie door and had just about beaten me to the front door. They were happily greeting Reggie who was laughing. He said the dogs had come in and were "Sneaking" around the opposite side of the kitchen counter from me, like I wouldn't see two big dogs that weigh 80 pounds each!!!

It sounds like our house! The rule is that Baby is to get ONE treat a day. But what that means to my husband and the rest of the family is that he can only give her one COOKIE. (She loves the doggie cookies that you purchase at Petco and PetSmart) So if she's already had a cookie, he will give her a potty tidbit, or a liver treat. Also, He says that if he has given her a treat, that it's ok for Kristen or Lauren or Zack to give her one. I tell them that I can't do anything with her because if I say no...she just runs to one of them!

Our daughter and son in law live with us. She can hear one of them get up out of bed and go to the bathroom that is attached to their bedroom, and she immediately wants out of my room. She will run across the house, into their room to check and make sure they are ok, and then she'll come be bopping back into my room and crawl up on her pillow like "Ok, I'm done" Kristen asked her this afternoon. "can I not pee without you watching me?"

Baby Girl is ok at night...unless we go to bed before one of the girls gets home. If that happens and she hears them come in, she has an absolute FIT until either Mike and I get up and let her out, or they come and open my door to let her out. She doesn't want to stay out long, just enough time to make sure that they are home and settled in for the night. Then she comes back to my room and is ready to go to sleep for the night.

Interesting words, though I'm not sure exactly how they pertain to this discussion. However, I appreciate your taking the time to read and answer my discussion starter. I'm leaving you with a cute picture of my dog.