Reluctance (another name for Chihuahua charm)

I should have know when the morning started this way it would have been an omen for the rest of the day. When you have to coerce the dogs off the bed to go outside - when you have to roll them over to put their collars on - when you have to carry them down the steps, that is when you know you should have just hit the snooze button again. OK - so I couldn't sleep and got up on the first buzz. So it was still dark out. Watching the sun come up is really beautiful. And we were the ONLY ones out. How great was that ?


Reluctant. Yes - reluctant to walk in the wet grass in the dark. Wet Paws!! What was I thinking? Carmel certainly can't poop in wet grass. (She needs to walk on her front paws like Dudley) But it's so much easier to see when she goes on the curb. Something to be said for not wanting to squat in the grass.


Reluctant to walk anywhere because it is still dark and who knows what will pop out at you in the dark? Reluctant to go out last evening - there was THUNDER. Didn't you hear it ? Can't possibly go for a walk - dark AND thunder.


So off to work I go. But I know that the reluctant twins will be waiting for me like two fuzzy bookends on the top of the love seat when I do get home. I'm sure they will have been planted there all day but they will both come running to greet me with so much enthusiasm it will wear them out. And once again they will be reluctant to go out and the cycle will start all over again.

You gotta love it! Well you don't have to - I just love these two neurotic little dogs. They make all the BS of the workday melt away.