Dogs....mans best friend?????

Ok, so we got this dog in June.  First....I had wanted a dog for awhile but our jobs and life in general it was just never a good time to get one. So last year when I lost my job and didn't find another one I thought this would be a great time to get a dog.  So, last Oct. we found this wonderful little girl cocker spaniel.  She was so sweet and soooo good and we just feel in love with her.  Well shortly after we got her she started getting sick...thought it was allergies at first but it progressed.  We took her to the vet and the vet suspected distemper but wasn't sure and said that she definately had pnemonia (sp?)  so we treated her for that.  Well she never got better and actaully got so bad she couldn't even stand on her own....IT WAS TERRIBLE.  We took her to the humane society vet (this is were we got her from) and they told us that she definately had distemper and she was so far along that there was nothing that could be done for her and she had to be put down....this happened right before christmas.  We were extremely sad.  

Humane society said that would let us get another dog and of course not charge us for it.  So we looked and we looked and we weren't finding one and asked about a refund.  However, we decided we would hold off till summer and try one more time.  Well, that brings me to June!!

We went back becuz online it looked like there was several cocker spaniel dogs available there so we wanted to see them.  Since the little dog we lost was a cocker spaniel we felt that this was a good dog for us.  Well, we looked at the cocker spaniels....tried to anyways...the 2 we were interested in growled at us before we even got to take it out of the kennel to look at.  But we found this other dog, it was a smaller dog and was labeled spaniel so we took him out and he seemed really sweet.  We looked at a few other dogs but ended up getting this one dog we thought was sweet.  He is a brittney spaniel mix and one of those mixes seems to be rat terrier.  He was really good when we first brought him home and was very clingy to me.  But the newness wore off and he became comfortable with us and his devious side has slowly but surely come out. 

We first had to break him of barking.  Took about a week but he doesn't bark when we leave any more.  We tried to let him sleep on a blanket (dog bed) at night but he likes to chew things.....and when I say chew things I mean he likes to chew MY things, with the exception of a few things that he has gotten ahold of such as a whole box of condoms.  Now you might think....why in the heck do you have condoms....I thought you were ttc???  Well we are ttc, so we don't need them anymore, they are just left over from when we were preventing and they are over 2 years old so probably close to expiring anyways......It's just that....well try explaining exactly what this is that the dog chewed up and is now littered all over the bedroom floor to a 6 almost 7 year old who is curious about everything herself.  NOT fun.    He's chewed up a toothbrush, shoe laces, and more.   Oh and the couple of boxes that I had stored under the bed  he decided must belong to him cuz they were under the bed and appartently that is HIS space so he shredded....yes shredded the boxes.  Hard to vacuum under a bed that you can't move without taking the mattresses off the bed. 

I think that this dog is out to get me.  He is now clingy to my husband, but probably because I am the one who spanks the dog cuz it is always my stuff he chews.  But the actually tried to kill me....he tripped me going down the outside cement stairs and I feel down a half of flight of stairs bruising my whole right side of my body and slightly twisting my left foot.  

Not to mention when we go for a walk he is a maniac.....he runs as fast as he can until the end of the leash snatches him back and then he does it again.   He PEES on eveerything!!!  This is why I hate boy dogs.  He also goes crazy when he sees other dogs.  He is 17lbs and thinks that he is 100lbs and can take on any dog out there.  Little dog syndrone I guess.  My husband doesn't understand how a dog with no nuts thinks his balls are bigger than the pits that our cop neighbor raises and trains.  LOL

Now this sweet little dog is jumping up onto the table and eating my daughters food that she has left on the table cuz she went to the bathroom or what have you.  UGH just another bad habit to have to break. 

Oh......did I tell you he is just a puppy about a year old now....so we got him at about 9 months. 

He can be sweet and loves to be loved on but oh my gosh why does he have to be such a pain in the ass??

So.....dogs...mans best friend...I think not!!!   but I think that we will keep him around anyways. 

Sorry about the off topic rant....but i had to get that off my chest.  :)

OFF track....trying to get back on!!!

Well, I guess it's been a while since I wrote.  There has been so many things that have been going on in the last couple months.  First we moved from one apartment to another larger apartment.....it was one of the most traumatic moves ever.  Friends tried to help us but almost killed us...lol.   Anyways....we got it done.  Then we had to move all my teaching supplies that were in storage to our new apartment because I still do not have a teaching job but at least I am saving money on storing my things.  Kaley came home from her dad's house 2days before school started and I had to get her school supplies and school clothes on tax free weekend....YUCK!!!!  

The biggest change is that I am no longer on my ttc break and we are back ttc again.  The break was 5 months long and this is now the 2nd month trying again.  I am in the middle of the 2nd almost "normal" cycle where I have ovulated both months.....YEAH!!!!   I hope that this is the month that it finally happens for us and our long 2 year ttc journey will come to an end.....here's to hopeful wishing.  I am also hoping that we can get pregnant before deciding we have to go back to the doc's to get extra help and I think that as long as I am ovulating that I am going at this au naturale, so we will see what happens. 

I only lost a total of 24lbs....am I happy with that???  Absolutely!!  do I think I should have done better and lost more???  of course, but I am thankful that I lost anything.   I know that if I would have been better about sticking to my plan in the first place than I probably would have lost more.....but that is just life and I am ok with it. 

Time to get back on track and start a new plan:   My new plan is to watch what I eat and start walking again.  It is finally starting to cool back down...not much but a little bit and hopefully enough that it will be bearable to walk again.  I think that this is the best plan I can have because IF we get pregnant I will be able to stick to it as both things are alright during pregnancy.