Husbands... can't live with them. Wondering if I can't live without them.

[xellil]

some days he just drives me CRAZY! I love him and all, but...

I wanted to walk down to the lake with both dogs. Snorkels may have heart disease but she is still pretty fast, and I needed my husband to watch her while I watched Rebel.

Anyway, we head off down to the lake and the first thing Snorkels does is start running full blast to a place where if she hits the edge she will fall about five feet. My husband is nowhere around. I catch her in the nick of time and move her down to the beach.

Where is hubby? About 30 feet away, going WOW look at all these fossil rocks! I say honey please watch Snorkels, Rebel has now wandered about 50 feet up the lake. I call him back and turn and no Snorkels. Husband still not watching. I start looking for her and she has run past the beach to a muddy place with a steep incline.

I go after her and get her but now I am standing on this steep muddy incline and as I turn to go back I fall forward. I have Snorkels under one arm so I can only halfway break my fall so I only get halfway covered in mud.

Since I am STILL on the muddy incline I can't get up with her in one arm because I can't get a foothold or a handhold anywhere.

I look around - no hubby. No Rebel. I am alone in the world and I can't get up off the fricken mudslide. And like an idiot, I am still in my church clothes, my shoes have sunk into a mudhole and come off and Snorkels is doing her wiggle thing trying desperately to get away from me to get into more trouble.

So I start hollering and he eventually rounds the corner. Rebel rounds the other corner. I point Snorkels at hubby and let her go and successfully crawl off the ground.

I swear, he's ADD or something. He has no attention span. If I could have managed both dogs at the lake I wouldn't have asked him to come!!

I guess I'll have to put a leash on Snorkels tomorrow and go by myself. My hubby is useless. I guess I still love him, but HIS shoes and clothes are not covered in mud! Not to mention his pride is intact.

[magicre]

you are too funny......i know the feeling well...

how many years are you married?

[xellil]

We've been together for 24 years, married for 13. I guess I have to keep him, I've spent too much time training him to send him to the shelter. Obviously, he needs a little more work!

[Itty bitty Kitty]

lol how did hubby respond to all of this afterwards? I think someone needs to freshen up on their clicker training :P

[xellil]

He said well why did you let her run up into the mud?? ARGH. Because I was trying to locate Rebel at THAT moment and she scooted off like a little red flameball, you dorkus. It wasn't like I just stood and watched.

She is such a funny little dog. She's very old and has all these things wrong with her and yet when she is feeling good she'll just fly. And she has this weird hopping run like a rabbit almost. It doesn't look fast, but she can really move.

Plus, she has all this hair and yesterday I trimmed her front legs down to the skin because they were collecting stickers in the tall grass. So she is all poofy except for these two twigs in the front.

Glad we're not trying to impress anyone or we'd be failing miserably.

[Itty bitty Kitty]

Wow and she's 14 years old? Granny still has some spunk!

[magicre]

i think it's gonna be all right.

if snorkels hasn't trained in fourteen years, do you really think you're gonna have any luck with honey?

give it up and just enjoy the ride.

[Mondo]

Sounds like Hubby is a rescue. I think most of us hubbies are .. Sorry about your clothes.

Glad Snorkels still has energy. Tuffy is almost 12 and the last 6 months or so have seen him having some tough times. But like Snorkels, he has his moments. Then he sleeps. Preferably outside in the cold, on his memory foam bed.

[magicre]

my shih tzus were like that after the age of twelve....

now my corgi mix is twelve and like night and day, she's starting to miss the couch.....:(

[Sprocket]

Sounds like my boyfriend...

Last night I said "Don't let Sprocket out into the yard!"

What does he do? Let Sprocket out, then as a I yell "You let him out! GO get him!". He walks away, then stops and says "What? oh shit I thought you said LET HIM OUT".

Men.