It is pretty simple to me, if you can't take care of yourself, you most likely can't take care of anything else. I am pretty confident that I can handle a dog now, since I have successfully kept a cat alive for 13 years as well as many fish and plants. I do think it is time to upgrade to doggy territory, or better yet, a puppy. However, I am mildly scared of full grown dogs which stand above my knee, and it is actually really intimidating to think that one day the dog I raise from a puppy will be able to tackle me to the ground and lick me till I give in and give it more treats. I know I am a pushover, and dogs are not stupid. Will a dog take advantage of me? I think so.
So for a while now I have been researching dogs. I want something friendly (golden retriever?), playful (Labrador?), Protective (German Shepheard) good with kids (Beagle?) and small (Chihuahua?) I came across an interesting breed a while ago, and I think I may have found a winner. A Shiba Inu. I have been talking about getting one of these for a really long time, and every time that I bring it up, Nick tells me that he is set on a Lab. Well I hate to break it to him, but although it is the only breed that he has been introduced to ever in his life, it is not the only breed out there. Yes, they are lively, great with kids and fun to be around, but they also have long thick tails which beat down Christmas ornaments, and bruise your legs, and they are massive. I think that the dog his parents have is entirely too big for me. I am not scared of theirs, but any that come around me, I am affraid are going to nail me to the sidewalk. I now have to break it to Nick that the Shiba Inu is the only way I will go.
I am dead set on having a furry companion, and I think since I will doing most, if not all of the work in training I should be able to have the one that I want. Maybe one day down the line I will be prepared for a Labrador, but not right now. I think that should I decide on a dog, it has to be one that I am prepared to get to know and research everything about it. I think the past four years I have been googling and AKC searching for the poor thing, just to see if I am ready. Today, I woke up and I knew I was ready for a small, attentive, and brave little puppy named Loki that I found on Petfinder. Logistically it will not happen, and I am prepared for the letdown when I talk to Nick, I jsut find it hard to tell him that in this move, he is getting everything he wants (no mortgage, his dream job, and to be near all his friends again) and I am starting over with nothing again. I had to give up a lot to move to NJ in the first place, and each time I moved since then I have had to give up more. I need something to keep me company while I look for a job again, and with the market being the way that it is, I am not seeing that as an immediate possibility. I figure the time that I spend looking for a job can also be spent training the dog, and the great thing about West Winfield is that my brother is so close, it would be so easy to pay him a twenty or two when I go to work in order for him to stop by and visit the dog and take him out.
That being said, I still have to talk to the landlord as well. He is a close family friend, and I am sure that he will work something out with us. I just want to be able to put up a small removable fenced in area for him, and I don't think that he will mind since we are doing all of the landscaping for him already. So how do I break it to the toughest of my critics that I want what I want? How do I ask Nick to let me have this one little, adorable, fluffy thing?
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