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Me and Erik both got altitude sickness when we went to CO and we're only 6 hours away. It sucked. Hope you guys feel better soon. :(

That's cocaine, dude.



So we are getting stoned off air and then chewing some coke. Party at Roz's place!

Mike read Dramamine is supposed to be something preventative. We're at 7500 I think but Wyoming was at 8k+ so we're thinking that didn't help. What pisses me off was I told the guy at the gym I literally just got there 24 hours prior and he had some guy show me where the damn treadmills were. Now that's just cold.

When we went to Denver I was so starved for mountains I made Erik drive us up one. It was really cool and there was a fort at the top but as soon as I got out of the car I was about ready to fall over.

We bought a treadmill but I haven't used it in a year because our basement has been under construction and there's just no room in the living room anymore. Hopefully Erik will get that done in a month or three. It's so cluttered with all the crap that was in the family room.

I'm not a fan of New Years, but I'm a big fan of three-day weekends! I feel like a human being again =) We'll see how long it lasts.

I got out of bed at 6 and sent the kid off to school and then exercised and then made banana muffins (to negate all the exercise) and then cleaned the kitchen and then went to work. Rawr!

Yeah, we'll see how long that lasts :X.

We got a dog. It's about 7 months old. She keeps peeing on my bed. No where else but my bed. We just bought a new mattress set maybe 2 weeks before we bought her. So of course Erik is pissed and hates the dog. As long as my bedroom door is closed she doesn't pee anywhere but outside. So last night she peed on the bed (Erik left the door open) and then he ripped the waterproof mattress pad we bought (cheap ass Walmart one). So....does anyone know of a high quality waterproof mattress pad?

Dunno about mattress pads, but I'd talk to the vet about the peeing on the bed as it could be a sign of a medical problem. At the very least it's a behavioral problem and maybe the vet could help.

Yeah I read up on it after about the 4th or 5th time she did it. I think it's a behavior thing. She only does it at night when we're spending time with the kids. I think she feels ignored so if the door is open she goes in and pees. Erik's fed up and wants to take her to the animal shelter but when James heard him say that he started crying and screaming for us to not take his doggy away. I'm reading reviews on Amazon and of course some people love this or that mattress pad and others say it's terrible. =[

Don't just go by the numbers of 1- or 5- star reviews on Amazon, especially if a product has a low number of total ratings, because some unintelligent people will give something a 1-star review because the package arrived late (or a 5-star review because it arrived on time; even more perplexing), or because the 3rd party vendor they bought it from wouldn't take back a defective product, as if that has anything to do with the quality of the product itself.

Other than that, thought, I find the Amazon ratings to be the most helpful when I'm shopping for something that I don't know much about. You just have to sift through all the reviews and see what about it people didn't like, and see if that will be an issue for you as well, and that's time-consuming :(

Also, I had a black labrador who did the same thing.

Yeah and Erik tasked me with doing this while he was at work and I want to make the right choice and would prefer his input. I saw one that seemed good and some people gave it low rating because it was too large for their bed. Kind of silly to me since it said it can fit up a to a 10 inches deep mattress.

I don't get why Erik's so mad about it. Our last dog was a lab and when he peed it was a huge huge mess. That dog had the runs from one end of our room to the other on cream colored carpet and Erik didn't have a fit he just expected me to clean it up! Same dog woke me up one morning with the sounds of a waterfall. He cocked his leg and peed all over the wall in my bedroom and made not a peep while doing it.

I just keep trying to tell Erik she's only a puppy and it will take time to teach her good habits! oh so frustrating! :P

Aw she's jealous and peeing where it will get your attention. Tell you sir it's better than my 9 mo old puppy who so far has: eaten a part of the couch, eaten the walls, eaten chunks of carpet in random places in the house, ate some couch pillows and also some underwear. I owe us a lot of new item for nto paying attention and assuming he was chewing his toys/bones >_<

You could get one of those plastic covers that make a ton of noise for the short term. Not ideal but if you need something in a pinch. I have the walmart pad you had on my sons bed.

Yeah we live in a really small town so the best we could do was the walmart one lol and I told Erik that I want his opinion so when ever he has a day off we can talk about it. It's still staying on the bed right now so I'm not worried about it. And she does chew on everything. But mostly she steals stuffed animals and pulls their eyes off. Great way to teach James to keep his stuff in his toy box! I think it's less my attention she wants than Eriks attention because she only does it when he's home and as soon as he's home he's on his computer and the rest of the world slips away. She's started sitting in his chair so that he can't ignore her. You'd think Erik would get tired of it and would help police that the door is closed....but no. I think if he can just stop being so emotional about it that we can get past this I think it's partially do to her being a puppy and still figuring out her place in the pecking order.

I love dogs, but why not just give it away?

I have to be honest I'm not seeing how this is his fault (Erik's)

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Well it's not his fault but he could be a little more understanding. He thinks all dogs should whine at the door to be let out but she doesn't do that. So he asked his self proclaimed dog expert father how to make the dog whine but either the dog does it or it doesn't. When we got her at the animal shelter we signed a contract saying if we want to get rid of her we have to take her back there. And I'm sure she'd get adopted quickly because she is a nice dog she just has this one little hang up. I just feel like I made a commitment to adopt the dog and I'm not willing to give up yet because I think she can outgrow this and with everyone helping to keep the dog out of my room she will stop peeing in my bed. Maybe I'm just fooling myself :(

I think he's wrong about dogs whining at the door. You tell your dog when it's time to go out, not the other way around. For puppies, a very frequent, consistent schedule can be helpful. It's easier for us humans to be responsible for keeping a schedule than it is for puppies to learn not only where and when to go, but also how to tell the humans that information.

My rescued dog never learned to whine at the door; he was two years old when we adopted him and living as a stray might have been all he remembered. We take him for a walk in the morning and evening and let him out in the backyard several times a day.

As for wanting Eric's attention, it could very well be a pecking order issue, but...dogs are uncanny (and sometimes uncomfortable) mirrors and they are very sensitive to people's moods and emotions. It sounds like there's some frustration and resentment happening, and she could be acting out on that.

Ultimately, you have to make the best decision for you and your family. This is a terrible position to be in and it's hard -not- to be emotional when considering giving up a dog. We had to give up our first rescue due to some aggression issues and it was absolutely heartbreaking even though it was absolutely the right choice for us.

You never realize how much complete and utter crap you have, until you have to dig through it to find something.

We bought a house. Hopefully we close on the 27th.