I am having trouble, just at the moment, understanding just how anyone ever decided that there are health benefits to having dogs.
Having a dog is supposed to improve one's mood and lower one's blood pressure. Having dog is supposed to reduce stress. HA!
My TWO dogs seem to be bent on RAISING my blood pressure, destroying any positive mood and stressing me out.
My beautiful black dog is bouncing (literally) back and forth between barking his head off at the front room window, the window on the backyard, or my face. When he stops barking, it is to pick up ANYTHING- shoe, coat, pillow-- that he can chew or tear apart. Or thinks he can, until I shout LEAVE IT! Whereupon he drops the item and resumes barking, usually at my face.
My beautiful blond dog is coming up to me adoringly, trailing ropes of saliva which he seeks to paint me with as he lays his head on my arm, my lap, tries to lick my face.
It's really--
Wait, what do I hear? SILENCE?
Well, sometimes it is lovely to have dogs.
So long as we let sleeping dogs lie.
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