6-28-17

My species continues to disappoint and confound me. in People suck. Cats are awesome. Dogs are alright.

•  June 28, 2017, 2:55 p.m.
 
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So yesterday we went to the EOPA to renew PIPP, the program that keeps our power and gas at 6% of our income. - Just to show that it is possible to create successful “masks”, (much like a sociopath), without really understanding what you’re doing, (NOT like a sociopath); the lady who did our paperwork struck me as cute. - (Yes, I’m in a relationship that will probably last me until I’m dead, but that doesn’t make me blind; and some women do look attractive to me. I had a girlfriend once, a long time ago. But I digress.) So without thinking about it at all, I apparently shifted to “flirty” mode, completely unintentionally, and we walked out of there with our back gas bill written off, a free air conditioner and tickets to a baseball game; neither of the last two of which we needed. sigh and eye roll Only after the fact, as the Male was talking about it, trying to figure out what happened, and I mentioned that I thought she was cute, did it become clear. (“Only after the fact did it become clear” could be carved on my tombstone, it’s such an accurate representation of my life.)

To be clear, we’ve been there twice before, and no one ever offered to do anything about the gas bill, or give us anything. They just set up the 6% payment thing, and that was it. So this woman treated us differently; as if we were friends.

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On the way home, we passed the house of the guy who gave me my dog. He asked “How’s the puppy?!” So I went over and talked for a minute and met her mother, a full blooded pit bull, all white. I told him that she looks a LOT like her mother, just a different color.

He asked if she was mean. I said, “Nah. She’s not mean. She’s a cuddlemuffin.” He said that all the rest, (as in her litter mates), were mean. I told him that I started her when she was really little; I carried her around and stuck her nose into my cat’s fur, and said, “Tell Pumpkin we love her!”, and she’d wag her tail. So now she walks around to all of the cats, sniffing them, trying to get them to play, and they hiss and bat at her. It’s funny.

He said that her mother wags her tail and knocks stuff off the table. I said that she’s the same way. She wants to be in my bedroom so bad, but I’ve got all this stuff on shelves, and all she has to do is walk in and turn around, and it’s all in the floor.

If we’d stayed longer, I would’ve told him all of the tricks I’ve taught her, and how every time I’ve had an issue, I’ve found a relevant training video online, and worked with her until it was fixed. It has not been an easy journey from leaping, squealing, floor pooper, to reasonably well behaved, housebroken, mostly quiet dog.

But I’m proud of her. She’s mostly awesome. And apparently she’s the least awful of her brothers and sisters, so go me.

Now if she’d just stop harassing the cats, we’d be good. Every time I leave the room, she tries to put her nose in a cat, and they do not appreciate it. I think if they didn’t claw and hiss, it would be fine; but she sniffs one, the cat growls and claws, so she makes a sort of tongue and nose poking motion at the cat, so the cat moves to a different part of the house, and then she’s chasing it through the house, tail wagging, like she thinks that the cat is “playing”. - And I know she wouldn’t hurt them on purpose, but I’m not 100% sure about what might happen accidentally, purely because she’s so big. So I have to spend all of the time that she’s loose in the house, (maybe 2-3 hours a day), constantly watching her. To her credit, after much work, she will stop chasing a cat and come to me, so that’s good. But it’s stressful and irritating when you can’t do other things because your dog requires constant supervision. - Which is why she has a lead tied in the kitchen. (If I ever see any indication that she would knowingly harm a cat, she’ll go to the pound; just so we’re clear. My cats are my kids.)

Unlike her mother, who has the stereotypical wide pitbull head, her head is more square; and she has a lot of excess skin on her face and neck. Having seen her mom, it looks like she got the hide for all of pitbull bone and muscle, without the skull to fill it out, so her “clothes” are too big. - Or it could just be the other breeds from her father’s side making her look like that. (She’s pitbull, boxer, and chow.)

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Tomorrow I go back to the neurologist, for no particular reason besides keeping me in Propranolol.

Presently I need to do some housework. Onwards.