Relaxation

Today is August 15 and according to the crazy calendar, it is National Relaxation Day.  That is a pretty foreign concept in our house.  We canines like to keep busy – when our human is home.  When she’s not here, we usually relax – she can watch us via BiG Brother.  We are generally relaxing, although we do move around a bit and will chew on the odd nylon -type bone. Yes – we still have them lying around – it’s that or the furniture.  

But now if my HUMAN wants to relax she has found the best answer – those real raw bones.  Especially the big marrow bones.  Not for her – for us canines. If she wants a few minutes of relaxation, all she has to do is pass them out – and she is free to stretch out on the lounge chair on the deck ( the one she has caught us peeing on ) and she can actually READ a BOOK.  She was doing that the other day.  We were all busy chewing away.  She got all comfortable.  And got into reading her book.  And the skies were blue.  With a slight breeze.  The birds were singing.  And she was actually beginning to RELAX.  And clunk.  She heard a noise.  She looked up and there was the FG looking all confused.  He dropped his bone through the rails and off the deck.  We have a rather complicated gate system on the deck – so instead of battling with that, she went back in the house, out the front door, all around the house and had to go under the deck to find the missing bone.  So much for relaxation.  But she was successful and the FG was back in business.  This time my human directed him to lie down AWAY from the edge.

By the time she got all settled again, she looked at us and started wondering if we had been chewing long enough.  She read that some dogs get…uhhhhh….oh what the heck, just say it – soupy poops if they eat too much marrow – so she started wondering if we had had enough.  We certainly didn’t feel we had had enough but you know the Worry Wart – she started envisioning cling-ons and subsequent baths – so she decide we had enough for one day.  We reluctantly traded our bounty for measly treats.  And relaxation was over.  Now time to start bugging her for a walk.  Or a game of fetch.  Or better yet- some supper.  We feel relaxation is overrated.

Anyway, we will celebrate the day with an extra power snooze.  We DO rest sometimes while my human is home with us – just not for very long.  You know our motto Carpe Diem! 

Have a good one!  Peace and paws up.