I went to the shelter today. I got to play with puppies! I think my volunteer work MUST be cheating... I mean you have people: "I painted a house in Mexico and had the runs for a week!" "I went to mission in China and I was constantly afraid of being caught by the gostapos!" and then me, "I went to the shelter just a couple of blocks away and I took out three puppies and played with them for an hour!"

Not all of it was fun and games, though. You may not know this... but puppies bite! They're like toddlers, their mouths really have to explore everything, the only difference is that puppies have sharp pointy fangs that... don't break the skin, but they're like little needles. Frankly, it was friggen adorable, but I thought to myself, "When they get bigger, this won't be adorable". So when they bit me, I would push them away and ignore them. They were all tounges for the last half of the day!

The thing is, it really IS important to show no tolerance to your dog;s biting AS SOON AS YOU CAN! As I was going out, I saw this pretty little herding breed mix with white, gray and black. The officers were telling the owner that when she surrendered him, they would have to put him down. Why? Because he had a bite history. The dog had been allowed to become so territorial that the family's son was actually scared of the dog. You could tell that the mother was very upset that she A. had to give the dog up and B. it had to be euthanized, but it just goes to show, you have to catch that stuff early or NO ONE will be able to tolerate your dog.

In other news... I think I have enough chinese to eat for a whole week! I have this little "Ten Commandments" plate... a dessert plate and I filled it with chinese and ate all of it. Very happy, very full. But, I still have practically two full cartons of chinese, the rice, a couple of fortune cookies and a these free sugary things that they gave me! Isn't that amazing! I am going to eat like a queen and no food poisoning for me! Eat that Washakie!

Dang. You must SERIOUSLY love Chinese food. I don't think I'd be able to stand having to eat that for a whole week....
» randomjunk on 2008-04-05 08:54:30

ooh... fortune cookies. any good news from the cookies?
» renaye on 2008-04-06 10:30:07

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