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One of C's fish died this afternoon. I could see it coming. He was drifting near the top the few times I had looked this morning, so I wasn't all that surprised to find him dead by 3PM. We sort of unceremoniously flushed him. I basically told them that's what you do with fish, return them to the ocean where they came from. So what if it was a freshwater goldfish. C did ask why Nemo was alive when he got flushed, so I just said that was a movie :-) I wasn't very helpful.
She did want to make a little memory book about the fish. Like we had done for Wrigley. Hard to find pictures of the goldfish that we had for 9 days :-) She drew some pictures and that seemed to suffice. Of course it brought up all the emotions of losing the dog, so that was tough. Just like when my grandmother died.
The dog is good. She's definately got some quirks. Being in a crate while we're gone has been stressing her out. I've found her legs soaking wet after being alone both times today. I may leave her loose in a small portion of the house tomorrow. I'd hate for her to hurt herself. Night times have been fine. She had one accident in the house today, so I think she's getting the hang of things. I'm glad she isn't at all interested in chewing the kids' stuff. Weird little noises scare her. I opened a can of soda and she ran, she hated the garbage disposal and the shower. Yet there were 6 kids ages 5 and under at our house today for a couple of hours and she didn't seem bothered at all. I can't complain as I'd hate for it to be the other way around. She's obviously been through trauma in her short life, I know she'll need time to adjust. She is sweet and really seems to like C the best.
C spent the night at my IL's last night. She had tried once before, about 6 months ago and ended up coming home at 8:30PM. Since the summer, she had started asking to spend the night there. It almost happened one other time but MIL had to change the plans. So, I knew she'd be fine and she was. MIL brought her home at about 10:30 this morning, so other than the kids starting to fight within 10 minutes of her coming home, it was nice. It was actually really nice to go out to dinner with DH and R last night. He's always so different without his sister around. No one to compete with for which songs to sing, where to sit, what to do... it was good for everyone.
She did want to make a little memory book about the fish. Like we had done for Wrigley. Hard to find pictures of the goldfish that we had for 9 days :-) She drew some pictures and that seemed to suffice. Of course it brought up all the emotions of losing the dog, so that was tough. Just like when my grandmother died.
The dog is good. She's definately got some quirks. Being in a crate while we're gone has been stressing her out. I've found her legs soaking wet after being alone both times today. I may leave her loose in a small portion of the house tomorrow. I'd hate for her to hurt herself. Night times have been fine. She had one accident in the house today, so I think she's getting the hang of things. I'm glad she isn't at all interested in chewing the kids' stuff. Weird little noises scare her. I opened a can of soda and she ran, she hated the garbage disposal and the shower. Yet there were 6 kids ages 5 and under at our house today for a couple of hours and she didn't seem bothered at all. I can't complain as I'd hate for it to be the other way around. She's obviously been through trauma in her short life, I know she'll need time to adjust. She is sweet and really seems to like C the best.
C spent the night at my IL's last night. She had tried once before, about 6 months ago and ended up coming home at 8:30PM. Since the summer, she had started asking to spend the night there. It almost happened one other time but MIL had to change the plans. So, I knew she'd be fine and she was. MIL brought her home at about 10:30 this morning, so other than the kids starting to fight within 10 minutes of her coming home, it was nice. It was actually really nice to go out to dinner with DH and R last night. He's always so different without his sister around. No one to compete with for which songs to sing, where to sit, what to do... it was good for everyone.