Forgo has been in Michigan for nearly 6 days and I’ve been by myself with Loki & Kuma. The Boys have been surprisingly easy to manage by myself this time. However, they haven’t slept in their crates all week. I can’t bear to put them in them, since they are spending the days cooped up. Kuma has been well behaved compared with the last time Forgo was out of town. We made our daily evening trips to the dog park, where Kuma decided to annoy a mean old greyhound named Edge. Edge does not like being humped and is pretty aggressive it letting other dogs know. However, Edge was really the problem, it was his owner. She either has something against humpy dogs, like Kuma, or she doesn’t trust her dog not to attack. She ended up stomping out of the dog park on the second day and said to me “your dog doesn’t belong at a dog park”. I was really upset and embarrassed by this situation. I was mad too. It has taken me some time to figure out what my deal was, but I think I finally have come to a conclusion I am satisfied with. I realized I have some issues managing my little problem child. He is a handful. He is like wild teenager and I am his frustrated parent. I needed to get a grip on his behavior and I was embarrassed that I was so incompetent. However, the greyhound’s owner was an intolerant witch. It is a dog park and dogs are going to play and be pests to other dogs. She didn’t belong at the dog park. Her dog probably would have worked things out with pesky Kuma or any other annoying dog. He would have figured it out if she gave him the chance. SHE WAS THE PROBLEM. She made me feel like Kuma was a bad dog and didn’t belong, and for several days I believed it.

We’ve been to the park everyday since Forgo’s been gone. Kuma’s been pretty good and I think I’ve been doing a better job disciplining him. Loki gets ignored at the park… by me… but there is a kid who live in the nearby apartments who who toss the ball around with him. I don’t think he realizes how helpful he’s being. Nice kid, I will save his story for another time.