Can & Cannot

I’ve lived in my home for almost 4 months now, and from the very start I’ve learned many things…like where I can and cannot go.

I can go…

• On the couches
• In my human sister’s room, but only when she is there
• In the kitchen
• All over the living room
• In the backyard (mostly with supervision because I eat everything)

I cannot go…

• In the laundry room
• In the bathroom
• In the bedroom

Now…I don’t mind that much about not being able to go in the laundry room — there isn’t really anything in there for me. But I like to follow my family all over and they often go in there. Nala’s allowed to go in there, so she can follow behind them. But me — I have to stop at the threshold and wait. And as you can see from the photo on the left, I don’t always stop…I sometimes sleep near the laundry room, and sometimes go over the threshold just a little bit! Shhh, I won’t tell if you won’t. 😉

Nala’s also allowed in the bathroom…and she makes a point of going in there as much as she can if anyone in our family goes in. I’m not sure what the big fascination is with the bathroom, but my family does go in there often…and they use lots of water in there (and you know how much I love water)! A few times I got a glimpse of some water raining down in there, but since I wasn’t allowed in there I couldn’t see what it was about.

Nala’s also allowed in the bedroom. This one bugs me! The bedroom is like Nala’s room — the entire room! They tell me that since we can’t play nice together all the time, Nala needs a place to veg out and get away from me. Get away from me! Can you believe that? All she does in there is sleep, anyway. I sometimes try and sneak in there, but I don’t want to get into trouble so I stay out.

Sometimes I stand just over the threshold and egg Nala on so she comes out and chases me around the house. That’s when we go crazy! But usually when this happens, my family opens the back door for us so we can run around out back and go nuts.

Nala also gets to sleep on the bed in the bedroom. Not that my bed isn’t comfortable — it doesn’t even matter because I sleep all over the living room most nights anyway (couch, floor, etc). But I would love to sleep in the bedroom sometime. I’ve been in there a couple of times — it was heaven! Maybe if I didn’t go crazy and eat everything in sight, they’d let me go in. I don’t know — Nala probably wouldn’t be happy about it, and I don’t want to upset her. Maybe one day. For now, I guess I’ll stick to the rooms I’m allowed in because it makes my family happy when I listen. 🙂