Doggie Pheromones......**

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Its been a rough day to be the owner of two of three dogs.......

I got up to use the restroom myself this morning at 5:30am, as soon as I did I knew it was a mistake....all three dogs were up wagging their tails and waiting to be taken out and fed.  Terrified that Karmella would have an accident in this beautiful house.....I was hurriedly getting dressed and running down the stairs (so I am sure you can imagine I looked disheveled and homeless)....I went to the side garage door, reached over for the light switch while looking outside for the location of the light...I found the switch turned on the light and promptly blinded myself with a powerful flood light......so there I am reaching out in front of me feeling my way through the large open lawn.....attempting blindly to walk the dog...

Shortly after this we took all three dogs on a two mile walk....we got home they all laid down and were being such good dogs.  

LEGS and I had to run to Fred Meyer, Best Buy and visit Grandma Coussens and Uncle Don.  We left for about a 1/2 hour.  In that half hour Karmella peed in the living room, and Clancy lifted his leg on an antique basket with quilts in it and sprayed, while LEGS' Mom who will now be called Queen Diana (she looks like Princess Diana to me) was on the phone.....The Queen started to yell in her soft voice "OH NO! OH NO!" (all of this occurred in the presence of Queen Di, and LEGS' sister Cupcake)

(Queen Diana would give Martha Stewart a run for her money, is a great Mom, and seriously cannot be aggressive or forceful which is necessary when you are a new pet owner of a Golden Retriever that goes by the name of 'Clancy Duke- the Celebrity') 

All the dogs were taken out to the garage....and LEGS and I rushed home....but by then what do you do??? We scolded Clancy and Karmella and left them in their 'houses' for awhile.  LEGS told Clancy 'Your going to pee yourself out of a home if you don't stop this....' my heart sunk....


After the 'time out' we took them outside, LEGS threw the ball for Clancy and Jake and I proceeded my schizophrenic pacing back and forth walk with Karmella in the yard, chanting over and over and over again 'Go Potty, Go Potty.' She didn't go UNTIL... I had all but given up hope, we had been in the driveway chatting with relatives for 45 minutes and I decided to try one last time.

The rest of the afternoon went okay.....

We had to leave to go visit Grandma Coussens and Uncle Don, because we never made it earlier, so we put the dogs in their 'houses.' While we were away Queen Diana called and said that she had stepped in poop in the formal dining room.....which she slipped on.....almost went down completely but ended up in a half kneeling position grasping onto the chair for dear life....she said she thought it was a banana peel......we cannot even comprehend how Karmella was able to manage this feet as she was never allowed into that room....???


Taking the dogs outside to 'Go Potty' has been a big production.  First of all, the grass is sooooooo wet and soggy that we have to wear boots in order to go in the yard, I think Karmella gets stage fright because of the soppy grass, and they are covered in mud.  So when we bring them into the garage we have to give them each a mini bath in order to allow them back into the house (understandably so)........After going through so much drama just to get them to pee and poop outside........its starting to make me feel seriously violent toward the dogs.


I am also starting to cry at the drop of a hat, (which is really AWESOME in front of LEGS' family) because I feel like the dogs are never going to adjust and deal well without LEGS, Me and each other......I feel like a horrible person not only for ruining this beautiful home with my chaos, but also for abandoning these amazing animals that cannot possible understand what is happening to them.....


I will say that my sissy, Queen Di, Bobdad (LEGS' dad) and Cupcake have been very helpful, understanding and determined to make this work.  They have calmed my nerves, assured me, and promised to try very hard at taking care of the dogs.......and of course we have laughed at the theatrics of it all......


We got D.A.P.S.- its a doggie pheromone releaser....yes I have purchased doggie pheromones for my dogs.....this IS my life......


Just another crazy day in the life of an unlikely military wife.......**