This COULD be our dog, Amber. She’s a 3-year-old yellow lab who didn’t get the memo about calming down once she hit the 2-year-old mark. To say she is ‘quite a handful for two old folks’ is the greatest of all understatements.
She is a good-hearted dog, but definitely wants ALL of our attention. If you get up to go to the kitchen, for example, she rouses from what appeared to be a sound sleep and is either running into the back of your legs, causes your leg to collapse, or pushed past you to race in front, then change directions suddenly to come back to see why you’re moving so slowly, over and over until you hopefully reach the kitchen in one piece. We are trying to discourage this, but she is the eternal optimist, thinking that if she surrounds you. only good things will happen.
She wants to GO. She doesn’t care where, when, or why. If we take her with us for errands, she plays ‘trampoline,’ jumping up and down in place beside the truck, waiting for us to open the back door for her so she can jump in. We open the back windows for her so she can go from side to side, looking out the windows.
If we say, “Go to bed,” when we get up, she hangs her head and dejectedly walks slowly to her bed in the utility room, waiting until we return.
Poor Amber. We are about to leave for Lunch Bunch, and this will be a ‘Go to bed’ moment….
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