Evenin' Everybody

This blog will document the trials and tribulations of my moronic dogs named Comet and Jetta. Comet is a half black lab / half golden retriever and Jetta is a Rotweiller. Comet is around 7 years old (give or take 4 years) and Jetta is around 1 year old (give or take 4 months). Hey - if you want to know their real age, ask my wife.

I don't have pictures available right now, but will post them as soon as I can dig them up.

This Blog was inspired by Jason who is a doggie foster parent (and colleague). His blog is here: Fostering Addison

So anyway, back to the events of the day ...

My wife gets up wayyyyyyy before I do. Usually only a few hours after I go to bed. So she has the dogs in the morning and I have them in the late evening.

This morning Candi, my wife, let the dogs out as usual and neurotic Comet was back at the door after a minute or two. This dog is afraid of everything - the vacuum, being outside, any loud noise, his food, and on and on and on ... He is nuts!

Jetta on the other hand attacks the vacuum, loves to be outside (then inside, then outside, then inside, and on and on and on), barks at loud noises. But she is nuts in her own special way.

So this morning, after Comet has already come into the house and nervously stared at his food for 10 minutes, Candi lets Jetta into the house. Well, it looks like Jetta has stepped in some mud and is tracking it throughout the kitchen. But ... it wasn't dirt-mud, it was Jetta-mud! What dog steps in it's own shit??? Looks like my dog does. I have never had a dog do this before. My kids have all stepped in dog shit. My wife and I have stepped in dog shit. But never one of the distributors of dog shit.

So Candi starts the cleaning process but ... she's dressed for work and can't kneel because she's dressed for work and doesn't want dog shit on her knees! So she squats into the catcher's position with her bad knees and hip popping and cracking and works on the floor. Following the floor, she attacks Jetta's back-right paw which is caked with processed dog food, chew toys, plastic bottle pieces, and whatever else she ate yesterday. Using her finger, she scoops out the "mud" and does her best to wipe the paw clean with a cloth.

Fast forward to tonight and I'm on the floor wrestling with Jetta (Comet isn't much of a fan of wrestling). Being a Rotweiller she can get down right nasty, but never crosses the line and bites me .... except for the time she accidentally bit my head and drew blood (my fault there). So I grab her paw to pull her back to me and I catch a whiff of something that shouldn't be in the house. I check my fingers to discover that Candi didn't get all the shit off of her paw. Wonderful ...

What dog steps in its own shit???