poltr1 | I like dogs, but....

The Ex doesn't own a computer. (She does, but it's not assembled as there's no place to put it.) ANd thus, she has no high-sped internet connection. So I blogged offline. ANd now that I'm back home, I can upload and share some of these posts.

[Originally written on 8/19/12.]

As mentioned previously, I'm been taking care of my daughter's dog while my ex heals from her injury last month. (To recap, she broke her albow and her ankle while walking her dog, tripping over a hole, and falling.) My duties include taking the dog out for walks and potty breaks every few hours.

Kefi is a rescue dog, that they adopted from an animal shelter about 3 years ago. She's a medium-to-large sized dog, about 50 pounds. She's a mixed breed, but we suspect there's some Lab in her. And when she's determined to go somewhere, she will pull at whoever's walking her. She's a good and fast runner, as I've seen from the times I've taken her to the local dog park. (As for the name, it's Greek for "joyful abandon". It most certainly fits.)

The apartment complex that the ex lives in has a grassy area near her apartment. It's not fenced in. We put Kefi on a leash when we take her outside. And we pick up after her after she poops. (Those are both community rules and local township laws. And it's one I can agree with, because I'm usually the poor soul who ends up stepping in it.) There have been times where she go out with out a leash, and it would take at least a half hour to catch her.

But what I find annoying are the dog's demands to go out every couple of hours. If I'm reading, watching TV, or sleeping, she'll bark at me and "demand" to go out. And I have to interrupt what I'm doing oe watching to take her out. I don't like being interrupted. If I'm watching TV, I'll end up missing part of the program I was watching. (No, I don't have a DVR, as I can't afford one right now.) And if I have to wake up in the middle of the night to let her out, it takes me a while to get back to sleep again.

I grew up with dogs. But my parents had a house, and a fenced-in backyard for the dog to play in. They never too the dog out for walks. And my mom would always wipe the dog's feet and "private parts" when the dog came back inside. Thankfully I don't have to do that with Kefi.

Bottom line: I like animals. I like dogs, but they're too high-maintenance for me. I'll stick to cats instead.