PuppyParenthood:entry "I don't give a ..." Mollie aka The Gremlin!

I am having another night where I wonder to myself what in the hell I was thinking for getting a puppy. She ate through a $119 crate. My puppy has no concept of money...she doesnt seem to understand that I have none at the moment...and if she does...well aint that a bitch.

Mollie howls. She howls when she is left alone...she howls when she is in her (now destroyed) crate....and its times like these where I want to give her back!

(I think she knows that I am writing about her b/c she is resting her head on my butt, trying the whole I'm too cute for you to be angry with me)

Mollie is a GOOD GIRL during the day....or maybe I am just more able to cope with her puppyhood when I have more energy. At night I am just so tired and she wants me to take her out, and to play and she wants to pee and poop and howl and talk and tell me about the boy puppies and how the little wiener dog across the way said this and this about this etc. etc. etc.

I love Mollie.

She is like a gremlin...at night she turns into this little monster shit.

She is a baby...hell no she is not! she is a teenager according to the book "Idiots guide to puppies" and she is in her teenage angst phase of puppyhood. All I can hear in her moaning, groaning, heavy sighs and roll of the eyes is "MOM! I HATE YOU! AND I WILL PUNISH YOU! BECAUSE I'M FILLED WITH TEENAGE ANGST."...little whore. oops sorry Moms arent SUPPOSE to call their children little whores.

I smacked her on the nose tonight...nothing too hard...nothing to make her go to a therapist later on in life to say, "yeah my mom use to beat me"...just a smack with one finger. I don't want to let my dog get me to the point where I smack with one two or three fingers. I feel horrible about hitting her little puppy nose...I lost my temper.

This is puppy parenthood. Breathing and counting to ten...to a hundred is essential...no crucial to both you and your puppy's survivals.

I love Mollie...I love Mollie...I LOVE MOLLIE. I also recognize that I need to work on my patience with her angsty teenage self.

-Hannah