{"id":1211,"date":"2011-02-04T16:45:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-05T00:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2011-02-27T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-27T05:42:00","slug":"doggie-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baileybegood.com\/home\/2011\/02\/04\/doggie-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Doggie Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I’ve said before, I am really happy with my family. I know they really love me, and I really love them. But there is something that’s bothering me, and I’m not sure what, if anything, I can do about it.
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\nIf you’ve been reading my posts, you’ll already know that 12 (now 13)-year-old Nala wasn’t too happy to see me when I first showed up on her territory back in September. She has made a lot of progress accepting me though… <\/p>\n

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\nWhen I was just 3 months old, she played tug-of-war with me.<\/p>\n

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\nShe now accepts me being on her <\/em>couch with her, even if I sometimes take up most of the room. At the beginning, she would run away whenever I would jump on.<\/p>\n

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\nEating bones next to each other can sometimes be tricky, because she wants what I have, and I want what she has. We’re both never happy because we always want what the other has!<\/p>\n

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\nWe both love looking out the window. If there’s something to look at, Nala barks and looks at me, I guess hoping that I’ll jump on the couch and join her at the window. Even if Nala’s barking at the window, I’ll bark wherever I am to join her. At least she <\/em>knows what she’s barking at!<\/p>\n

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\nWhen we’re both outside, she doesn’t mind it if I walk near her. When I first joined the family, she would try and get as far away from me as she could. I love being outside with Nala. For a 13-year-old, she still gets moving pretty fast, and usually catches me when we’re running (though she gets tired really fast). She always tries to bite my behind when I’m running past her — I don’t think she knows how to just play <\/em>with another dog. <\/p>\n

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\nWhen Nala’s outside by herself, I wait impatiently by the sliding door for her. I make a lot of noise moving the vertical blinds by the door, and usually cry until she’s let back in. <\/p>\n

Today, I will admit I went a little crazy inside the house. I was running around and playfully hit Nala in the face with my paw (like I have many times before). Nala got really mad and nipped me on my front leg. It didn’t really hurt me, but my mommy got upset about the whole thing and separated us for a short time. Then I got a little crazy and started to run around the house. Mommy quickly opened the sliding door and I was able to run around the backyard to work off some energy. <\/p>\n

I know I’m constantly in her face, taking away her time with mommy and daddy, taking away her toys… and stuff like that. But how can I make her not bark at me constantly, and not try to bite me? It’s gotten a lot better in the almost 5 months that I’ve been here, so I should be happy about that. But I want it to get much <\/em>better… to the point where Nala wants <\/em>to lay next to me and actually like <\/em>to spend time with me. I love my new sister and I just want us to be friends. Maybe I should suggest to mommy that Nala go to school too, so she could learn how to act around other doggies? I would love to have my sister as a classmate. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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