Mourning

You know what the saddest sound in the world might possibly be… The sound of a dog howling for something they obviously miss or lost.

This started a few nights after Rosie came home with us. About 5 minutes after we go upstairs to go to bed, we can hear her roaming around the downstairs, she will do her crying and knock over the food dishes. But now she has added this terribly mournful howl… it goes on impossibly long and is so heartbreaking. 🙁 I wish we could convince her to come upstairs with us. We don’t know if she misses us and Amos, or if she misses one of her old doggie friends from back in the greenhouse, or what. But it is just so freakin’ sad. Luckily, once she gets one or two really long pitiful howls out, she then settles down and goes to sleep.

Otherwise, she has just been the happiest dog. Sometimes she’ll be snoozing away and Mich and I will start talking and then her tail will just start thumping away. Her happiness just makes us so happy. She also LOVES to see her reflection. We set up a mirror behind her bed and so she goes to it and play bows in front and just gets silly in front of it.

While I was gone yesterday, Mich said that Amos and her actually started to play together inside the house. Mich didn’t want me to miss it so she took them outside. LOL I guess she had hoped that once back inside they would do it again. They didn’t yet… but its a very very good sign. Also a good sign is that they have had toy time together and there have been no more instances of grumpiness from Amos.

On another sad note is that Rosie attempted to play with this fuzzy red ball. I’m just super excited she chased after it when I rolled it across the floor… but the sad part is, once she picked it up, she started carrying it around and was crying so sadly… She looked like she was looking for a place to hide it. I don’t know if it reminded her of her puppies and her puppies being taken away from her or what, but it was just heartbreaking and seemed to be causing her so much stress that we ended toy time early.

Otherwise, life with these two has been a joy and blessing.

I’m still thinking very hard about the job offer… This morning I tried to plot out how early I would need to get up in order to go through the usual routine with the dogs and get myself ready. It looks like 5:30 would be the time. Ug… LOL It will probably be worth it, but UG!!!