Pampu II

Yesterday, we bought Pampu his very first leash at Robinson's so we can tie him up whenever we leave the house. He has this tendency of slipping out of the gate when no one's around. There's a small space on the lower part of the gate where he usually squeezes himself out.

There are of course other factors why we decided it would be better to tie him up.
Pampu has this unusual habit of shitting anywhere on the garage, especially on parts where we're most likely to step on them, so we decided we might be able to contain his shitting on a particular garage corner, the safest for all of us. And since he can't help chewing on things, like slippers, papers, electric cords, including certain body parts (i.e. toes, hands, ankles, soles) we thought we can help him become more disciplined and train him to act a little more - civilized.

With all these things in mind, we thought that we should tie him up the whole night so we can start training him. At first, he cried so we let him loose several times until we got tired of his whining, we let him sleep without tying him up.

This morning,we tied him up to keep him from the streets. At first, there were his usual whining which we tried to ignore. Then, suddenly, he got quiet. That made us smile. We thought, he's gotten used to it after trying it out several times last night.

But, when I took the stairs to get my coffee, there he was right at the foot of the stair! He was looking at me on the eye, seemingly with a smirk on his face to show off his chewed leash! He was able to chew that in more or less 30 minutes!

I was quite surprised that he was able to chew that in such a short time. I should be checking those teeth sometime, they must work like razors. Though I was a little annoyed about what he did with his newly-brought leash, I must admit that I'm quite happy he's a clever dog. And maybe, tying him up wasn't such a good idea, after all.

Yup, tying him up with a cheap leash won't do. Chains, maybe. Hehe.

thirty-minute break

After several days of hardly ever having healthy conversations with some people, I finally took a full six-hour sleep last night. I woke up early to a great morning, never mind that it was forced since my cellphone's time is about two hours early.

I was able to wash the dishes with not much of a hurry and I managed to send messages that were not "business as usual" hoping I could cheer up the people I might have dragged into my monotonous self these past days.

Good thing last night, I was able to catch a good thirty minutes of inactivity at Robinson's while waiting for someone. I was able to relax a bit, think through things and realized that things were actually going great. Targets were met except for some slight changes but we managed. So in that mall lobby, I kissed goodbye any negative thoughts and smiled like I was just treated to a Coke float.

So, after all, 30 minutes are all I needed to rid of all those negative thoughts. And, except for reminding me how penniless I am, at least that mall has other things to remind me of: chill, ranix. chill.