Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Macy

I love titling posts with a female's first name because I know that at least 15% of you are terrified that I'm about to introduce you to one of Tami's family members. This is no such post, although I do think we need an update on Tami's newest hairstyle soon.

My sister called me the other day and asked me if I would watch their dog while they go out of town because "your entire social media presence is basically a virtual dog pound so we thought you wouldn't mind taking in another."

I never did think there would be a time in my life when anyone would consider me an option for dog sitting. But as I've explained on numerous occasions, Mr. Pants has changed my world view on everything.

I pretty much immediately and enthusiastically told my sister that I would gladly accept their request, in large part because they have a Boxer and I really wanted to post a picture of the dog to Instagram, including as a caption the lyrics to Paul Simon's "The Boxer" because I'm poetic like that.

Two days later, Macy showed up at my house.


A few things you should know about Macy.

1. She is four times heavier than Mr. Pants and therefore much more awkward to hold like a baby while walking through stores.

2. She likes to turn her food and water bowls completely upside-down and then wrap them up carefully in towels. I have no idea why she does this, but it seems she cannot be talked out of it.

3. She crapped on the floor a few minutes after arriving but has otherwise been potty-trained since. Considering the look she had on her face when she did this, I see it as a sort of threat. Like she was telling me, "this is what I'm capable of if you don't treat me like a queen." And this brings me to number

4. She follows me around looking at me like this:


And now I feel like I've done something wrong and I don't know how much longer I can live with the guilt. IN MY OWN HOME.

6. I skipped 5.

7. As it turns out, Macy can open doors. I know this because on her first day here I shut her in my bedroom while I left the house to go to a work meeting. When I came back, she was sitting on the couch in the front room, looking at me like she was disappointed in the way I had conducted myself, and completely unapologetic about the fact that she was clearly in a place I asked her not to be.

8. Macy not only opened the door to get out of the bedroom LIKE A FREAKING HUMAN, but she shut the door behind her before going and sitting on the couch.

9. Macy had not barked at anyone or anything for two straight days until the mailman walked up the steps at which point she howled so viciously that I think it may have been considered a federal offense and those hazmat people from ET are on their way to quarantine my entire property.

10. The mailman flipped Macy off while she was barking at him through the glass door.

11. The mailman doesn't know that I saw this.

12. The mailman and I still have a hostile relationship.

13. Something be weird with The Perfectss's''s's'es' dog because Ollie, who normally approaches all other canines with unwavering enthusiasm acts like Lord Voldemort has entered the room every time that dog goes outside. And Macy acts the same way, which is making me wonder more and more what's the story behind The Perfects keeping him on such a short leash ALL the time.

14. I think a Satanic dog lives next door to me.

15. Although she weighs 650 pounds, Macy insists on sleeping in my bed, not with me, but at the exclusion of me. I am left nearly no room. I have found that if I curl up into a little ball at the bed's end, I can sometimes get some shuteye.

16. Macy jumps off of and back onto the bed, on cue, every ten minutes, all. night. long.

17. If Mr. Pants sleeps for 20 hours out of a 24-hour day, Macy holds strong at nearly 22.

18. I do not understand how these animals survived thousands of years of natural selection BUT THANK GOD THEY DID because

19. I love her with every fiber of my being.

~It Just Gets Stranger

24 comments:

  1. Hace Macy met Mr. Pants or Mr. Scraps????

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Mr. Pants came over tonight and threw a royal temper tantrum when he realized that Macy has been playing with all of his toys. He gathered them on the couch and barked at her anytime she got near them.

      Delete
    2. Did Mr. Pants gather you on the couch and bark at Macy when she came near you as well? Or did he stare at you with eyes of betrayal that you let another dog near his things?

      Delete
    3. He approached me skeptically. He barked at me several times when I gave Macy any attention but also kept jumping on my lap and curling up into a little ball. He looked at me like "we're going to talk about this later." He also does this when I greet Mr. Scraps before saying hi to Mr. Pants first.

      Delete
  2. *your entire social media presence

    ReplyDelete
  3. Hiding her food and water bowls is normal. It's the same instinct that has dogs burying bones etc. Dogs have fun instincts. My favorite is when my dog gets the insane idea that she should have had puppies, and she starts hiding all her toys behind the couch and protecting them. She flips out of you move one of her pretend puppies.

    ReplyDelete
  4. I love dogs, and I love this post!

    ReplyDelete
  5. Macy is just gorgeous, I have developed an instant doggy- mom crush on that dolorous little face!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Wait...ET has a hazmat department? Oh...makes sense, their entire lineup is a giant cesspool, I suppose there's the danger of spillage so yeah, hazmat.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I think he means the hazmat people from the movie ET that were sent to contain the alien. I'm not quite sure what you mean.

      Delete
    2. She is obviously referencing entertainment tonight. Duh.

      Delete
    3. Leslie - you're not alone - I was lost

      Delete
  7. I have a greyhound and I now realize why they call them "the 45 MPH couch-potato" ... She sleeps ALL. DAY. LONG. She gets super sassy for approximately 30 seconds and then goes back to lounging and sleeping. I'm not sure why I have been cursed with being human, but I hope in my next life I'm a spoiled greyhound.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. Mine is the same way! But they're so cuddly like that.

      Delete
  8. Love this post! Try having two boxers and finding room on the bed to sleep!

    ReplyDelete
  9. I'm telling you...those Perfects are people you gotta watch out for. Did you ever see the movie Arlington Road?

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. OHMYGOSH! I've thought this several times when reading about them!

      Delete
  10. Any way you could publish a transcribed version of the podcasts? I'm deaf and I'm feeling kind of left out. Thank you.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. I would so love to do that, but I may not be in a position to do that just yet. If I can recruit some help, I would love to make that a priority. Keep hounding me about this!

      Delete
    2. Is there any way you could cast it on to your TV, like thru ROKU, and then possibly CC it? Just wondering.

      Delete
  11. "Keep HOUNDING me about this." I see what you did there.

    ReplyDelete
  12. Macy has to sleep 22 hours a day or how else would she have the energy to jump off and on the bed every 10 minutes for the 2 hours she allows you to lay in the bed pretending to sleep.

    ReplyDelete
  13. I just got a boxer puppy, she is 3 months old, and everything you've commented above seems to fit her exactly.

    ReplyDelete