It’s a crazy world in the Martinez household, with four dogs and two cats now holding court in a borrowed house. A few days ago Saffron and Henna, one of the dogs we’re housesitting, jumped out the window we keep cracked for the cats. (The cats, I might add, are very unhappy that we’ve taken up residence here; they responded by urinating on everything in the closet in Ben’s room. Subtle, cats are.) Have I mentioned the poop? Â It appears that six animals create a lot of, shall we say, animal waste? Â Or, in other words, there’s a lot of sh** going down around here.
Yes, it’s Saturday, and by 6:30 a.m. this morning we were in full crisis mode.  Two dogs got out of the yard this morning but only one came back (Saffron, my dog, the one I can AFFORD to lose of course); I called and called, and finally a neighbor stopped me and said she had found Henna and had her in her yard. We went to her house, only to find that Henna had escaped — again. I organized a small neighborhood search team to find her, only to find she had finally gone home  – Ben very graciously let her in and closed the door silently behind her. I’m not sure how many years I lost off my life over that.
However, as anyone who is a pet owner knows, there are moments when the owner gets to remember why s/he decided to adopt or buy or accept a pet and today it was Ewok’s turn to remind us why the escaping/pooping/barking/shedding is worth it.
Behold, Maya, asleep on the floor after throwing a fit because she decided she wanted peanut butter toast instead of peanut butter bread:
Yep, she fell asleep in the middle of a tantrum.
Yes, she is asleep in the middle of the kitchen, in her white princess dress, in the middle of a trantrum. I think she might have been a teensy bit tired — after all, she got up at 6 a.m. to play with the dogs.
I kept walking past her, getting snacks, making tea, etc., when I looked down and saw this:
I think the girl and dog MIGHT have bonded a little.
Ewok, as I’ve mentioned, is ridiculously cute, and curled up next to the naughty little princess…well, it’s going to be a bit tough to find him a new home, now, isn’t it?
HMMMMMmmmmmmm.
