I'm reading Mindy Kaling's book, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (and other concerns) and it's really awesome. She makes me think that even my stupidest thoughts could be funny.
So here are some random thoughts. Let's try this out.
Okay, so you know how you hear stories about dogs who are treated terribly -- their owner leaves on vacation for a week, and just left them outside with one bowl of food and water? or the owner makes them drink alcohol because they think it's funny to see them drunk? (Wait, why is that the worst thing I can imagine happening to a dog? I think because it's too painful to think about worse things. Anyway, you get my point.) And you know how you also always see how some dogs are spoiled rotten -- you know, like on reality shows, where mega rich people carry their dogs around in purses into restaurants and feed them caviar at the table. So my question is, wouldn't it be interesting to find out how people their dogs average-ly? Like, in an acceptable fashion, but not overdoing it, and also not abusing them? I like to think my husband and I are really really nice to our dogs, but we don't overdo it, and we definitely don't abuse them (unless you count my husband disciplining them, but let's review that later). Like, right now, our German Shepherd has a plastic squirrel toy in the house, even though she's thrown it around outside in the dirt a million times, so it's sticky with her saliva and super dirty. But she loves playing with it and carrying it around in her mouth. When she's outside with a toy and on her way to come inside, I can tell her "no toy" and she'll drop the toy (although I have to time this just right because if the timing is off, she'll drop it inside the house). So I'm super inconsistent about the no toy in the house rule. Is that average? or is that spoiling the dog? I kind of need some barometer about an average way to handle a dog.
