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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Last night I took Cyrus and Snoopy for their walk by myself.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Snoopy has been getting much better on walks but last night was FAR from stellar.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I suspect the approaching full moon, or maybe weird weather, but he was pulling and I wasn’t having any … seriously Snoopy was galloping in place with me holding on for dear life …. I even moved the lead from his harness to his martingale to try to slow him down which makes him pull less but I have to pay MUCH more attention because he’s smart enough to let it go slack and then slip the @#* thing if I don’t watch.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Oh, and then these two ladies came up the street from the other direction with a Golden retriever and Snoopy just went NUTS.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So I told Cyrus to sit and
grabbed Snoopy by the harness to prevent disaster and I’m trying to help him into a sit and he’s screaming and lunging and twisting and this goes on for a LONG time and I can’t understand why he’s not calming down and then I turn to look and these @*#@ ladies STOPPED directly across the street from us to WATCH and STOOD there … for like minutes … well when they realized I was GLARING at them they WAVED to me (yeah, I didn’t notice you standing there) and when I continues to GLARE then they decided to continue on their walk.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>DEEP breath …. Calm down … ok ….. take the beast and his brother home now ….<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Calibri>Well guess what, Snoopy was pretty darned tired after our walk (ya think?).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Actually that’s a problem because Snoopy sleeps with Natalie who is 11 and goes to bed at 9:30 … and it wasn’t even 9 yet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And while she will sometimes go to bed 5 or 10 minutes early if Snoopy is sleepy she’s wasn’t going to bed an hour early for him and he won’t use a dog bed at night and he was SO tired so finally we decided that I’d boost him up on her bed and she’d finish her homework on her bed with him.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Which seemed to work fine.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I mean, poor little Snoopy as a very wrinkly face anyway and when he can’t keep his eyes open it’s beyond cute, he’s just a mass of wrinkles, no eyes, just wrinkles, and when I put
him down and he barely made one turn and he was out cold.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Natalie did her homework and brushed her teeth and put on her pajamas and turned out her light and went to get into bed and that’s when I heard it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>First a loud GRRRRRRRRRRRR which had me SPRINTING down the hall at top speed but what followed was simply HILAROUS.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>“SNOOPY, that’s just RUDE!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This is MY bed and I need to some space AND some covers and you will NOT speak to me that way!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now, you just move over and be nice”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Snoopy answered …. “harrumph!”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I got there as she pulled the covers over herself and turned her back to Snoopy and he rolled over and turned his back
to her and they pressed their spines into each other and went to sleep without another word and stayed that way till morning.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Seriously!!<o:p></o:p></FONT></P>
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