You might have noticed the news page was a little screwed up the past couple days or so. That's because I had messed with the blogger template to try to do a non-frames site, but I found out tonight when making more non-frame pages, that if you have to load a full page everytime you click a link, more ads just pop up. That's no good. So I'll just work with the frames instead. Though I'll add some page links to every page, so that if you go directly to one, you'll be able to at least navigate to the other pages without needing the bar on the left there.
Puppies are the devil in sheep's clothing. We got one, and he's just the sweetest thing when he's sleepy. He'll lay right down on your lap and go to sleep, and look as cute as can be. Though five minutes after he wakes up, he's either already going into his biting mood, or making a mess somewhere on the carpet. He'll rocket up and down the hallway, grab at your pants legs, chew on your socks, chew on your hand, chew on your shirt, chew on your pants, chew on the chair, chew on the carpet.. etc etc. We're trying to break him from the biting, cause that's even worse than wetting and messing everywhere. He doesn't seem to acknowledge any kind of reactions though when we try to make him see that biting hurts. I read you should yelp or say "ouch!" and stop playing, and look at him so he'll know he did wrong. But when I move my hands away, he just starts jumping up on me thinking I'm playing, and most times ignores the yelping completely. Sometimes I just leave the room (partly cause I read you should after a point, and also cause I get tired of being chomped). But depending on how soon I come back, if he's still in his playful mood, he'll keep right on biting.
Nevertheless, it's hard not to love him after he wears himself out. I'm just not sure yet if we'll keep him, cause my folks are getting tired of the mess and the enormous amount of energy he has (which involves biting to play). I hope he'll settle down eventually, or at least not bite so much, cause it would be nice to keep him. He's the first real pet we've had since we had our lab put to sleep a couple years ago. We have a bird, but he just squawks a lot and flutters around. It's nice to have a semi-intelligent animal trotting around.
I bet I can put a picture. let me see.
posted at 1:28 AM
