Sep 2 - 8

So, I had this dream last night that Cooper wrote me this letter. Apparently, he believes that Phoebe is getting all the attention. He commented that I haven’t written about him in the emails since we got Phoebe. He also thinks that Phoebe is very annoying, she wants to play with him constantly and now that he is mature, he thinks that is completely out of line. So he wants to remind me about the hierarchy, and he should be on top, and Phoebe should be relegated to a much lower position of recognition. "Ok", I said, I would take his views under consideration.

So then, Phoebe gets jealous and wants to voice her opinion. First off she wants to point out that female dogs have never gotten the recognition of male dogs, and she thought that I was being discriminatory. Second, she doesn’t understand why we don’t have the energy to play 24/7 and she thinks I should purchase Red Bulls for everybody. Ok, I apologized if I gave her the wrong impression and I would take this all under consideration and also I would consider the Red Bull thing.

Then my wife chimes in. What the hell was I thinking of when I decided to get a puppy. I miss my sleep so much and I think this is all your fault because you should have talked me out of this.  Yes, you are absolutely correct. This is all my fault and you should take no responsibility. I apologize for not reading your mind correctly and I promise this will never happen again.

Just then a very foul odor wakes me up out of a very deep sleep, and I say “please not again”. I look at the clock and it is 2:15 AM.

My wife just says 2 words.

"Your turn."

Aug 26 - Sep 1

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Aug 12 - 18

So training a puppy to not pee in the house appears more difficult than building the Golden Gate Bridge. Apparently, the previous owners trained our girl to do her business in the house, so we are having a difficult time trying to correct that. When she goes outside and does it, we can count the drops, but when she goes inside it is like fire hydrant. Hopefully you are not dining while you read this.
 
So my dentist has a dog named Cooper. When I go for my checkup, Cooper comes to me in the lobby and I scratch his neck and he just lies there. When I stop he gets up and just stares at me, like, “why did you stop scratching my neck”? So I start scratching again, and he immediately lies down, and this goes on over and over. Finally, I am called in and the dentist is working on me when I get a nudge. I look over and there is Cooper giving me the stare again, “there is no reason you can’t scratch my neck here”.
 
Ok, so as you know I hire a lot of adults with disabilities, and since I sold Sunrise Country Waffles, I am bringing 2 over from there to FlapJacks. So give John and Nathan a warm welcome.