Where the Good Smells Are

Posted on May 27, 2017 by joey

You know how sometimes you dunno what causes a thing until it happens a second time? Yeah?

Well, one night last week Sadie was actin weird. She kept me up half the night, traipsing around with her clickety-clack toenails and her jingle-jangle tags, and the pant-pant-whine of her stupid furry face.

sadie_a

It’s always my side of the bed — kids, dogs — always the mama, am I right?

When I got up in the morning, I don’t know when, but early, I was all, “I was up til three cause the stupid dog was acting fucking weird!” and Sassy said, “Same.”

So last night, The Mister and Sadie performed their nighttime ritual — He took her out and she did her tricks and she got her cookie and again she did not lay down and sleep her face. She hung around with the panting and the whine and bout drove me outta my mind. AGAIN.

I tried all the same stuff one does to appease those who do not speak. I checked her water. I loved her up. I snuggled her. I rubbed her tummy. I scratched her snout. I made her a special pallet with a pillow and some dirty clothes. She would not lie down and shut up and go to sleep.

IMG_3295

Too close to infant care for me. This is why I don’t have more babies and why I don’t adopt puppies and OMFG DOG, WHAT DO YOU WANT!?
I am not the dog whisperer.

Finally, at 3:50 A-fucking-M, I took her outside. She was eager to go. I stood there, vulnerable in the darkness — is my yard four times bigger in the dark, or nah? — while that bitch sniffed every single freakin blade of grass and made absolutely nothin. Then, she plopped down in the center of the patio and with her eyes, she said to me, “You may go now.” It turns out THAT is what she wanted.

Oh Hell No! It’d been a long time since I was so angry.

You know those times when you take a deep breath and count to ten? Yeah, I should’ve done that. But no, I went in and yelled at MY husband about MY dog and as is typical, he yelled louder and went back to sleep.
The nerve of these people who can always, always sleep!

I went back outside in the darkness and practically herded my dog indoors. I gave her half a cookie, pointed to the living room, and told her “Go Lie Down!” She trotted off to our bedroom instead.
When I arrived, I SAW. The window was open. Sadie was poised nose to air, obviously engaged in some sorta olfactory delight. She wanted to be where the smells are. Unfortunately, I wanted her not to die a tragic traffic death. Impasse. Total impasse.

I closed the window and snapped my fingers, “Out! Out! Out!” With a huff, I shut the door almost closed.

She went nigh nigh. In the living room. Like a good bitch should.

Stupid smells. Mama needs her sleep.

 

Stream of Consciousness Saturday — SoCS ‘smell’ is brought to you by LindaGHill

About joey

Neurotic Bitch, Mother, Wife, Writer, Word Whore, Foodie and General Go-To-Girl
This entry was posted in Random Musings and tagged , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

53 Responses to Where the Good Smells Are

  1. Dan Antion says:
    May 27, 2017 at 7:19 PM

    I was closing up shop when this arrived. I’ve already sent it to the Mrs. Maddie goes out and works her nose sometimes and we swear she’s sniffing some far away land instead of doing one of the two jobs she should be doing. Sometimes, it seems that she’s gonna break her nose.

    I’m picturing you out there at 3:50 AfM and I’m laughing a little. Great job with the prompt.

    Liked by 3 people

  2. meANXIETYme says:
    May 27, 2017 at 8:49 PM

    Butthead will walk the entire yard (and it’s pretty damn big) nose to the ground just a’sniffin’. Then go out and do it all over again an hour later. And I’ll get no reprieve because SOMETHING HAS BEEN IN MY YARD AND I NEED TO FIND IT. How do they not hyperventilate with all that sniffin’? Meanwhile, Le Moo will just want to go out and splay on the patio and just WATCH. We’ve been through the 3am nose-poke-gotta-go-out-now-or-i’ll-die dance only to have her go out and lie down. In the dark. Until we have to go out there and drag her in with a leash. Normally it’s Hub who gets nose-poked at 3am (it usta be me with the previous dog, but these two are better trained!), but with him being gone for a few days, it’s gonna be me! At 3am in the dark, in my nightie, with a flashlight, and ohshitwasthatabatthatflewby? Yay.

    Liked by 1 person

  3. mainepaperpusher says:
    May 27, 2017 at 9:05 PM

    This is why we have great big Great Dane-sized dog doors. If they wanna smell things, they can go out to the kennel and sniff and snort all they want. Best thing we ever did. I remember the days of standing out in the rain waiting for the poop that would never come. You are a good dog Mom and an exceptional wife. Your husband is lucky you didn’t roust him out of bed to take the dog out. Mama doesn’t sleep, nobody sleeps!

    Liked by 1 person

    • joey says:
      May 27, 2017 at 9:17 PM

      Hah! Thanks so much!
      While that sounds fantastic for y’all, we have an escape artist. (Fencing seems trusty, we don’t know how she does it.) She’s unreliable, has gone over a year without runnin off now, but we live surrounded by busy thoroughfares and the interstate so we just can’t take the risk. 😦 At most, we’ll leave her out while we do yard work, but usually we just hold her leash or tether her to the front porch so she can be outdoors with us.

      Liked by 1 person

  4. ghostmmnc says:
    May 27, 2017 at 9:39 PM

    I’ve been through all that when we had the dogs. It was always me they woke up to let them out in the middle of the night. They’d do the ‘check the perimeter of the yard’ thing, and take for-ev-er! I got to where I just got me a snack, sat at the kitchen table, and did a bunch of writing…all in the near darkness. When the dogs passed on, I kinda missed our early morning times. 🙂 Sweet Sadie is so cute, and I’m sure she gives you that innocent look, too. Oh, yeah, the back yard always gets way bigger in the dark!

    Liked by 1 person

    • joey says:
      May 27, 2017 at 11:49 PM

      If I had a window where I could watch her, she’d be out more, but alas, I do not. I rather like your solution to the situation though. Although, I can honestly say I wouldn’t like it at 3:50am, either!

      Liked by 1 person

  5. mainepaperpusher says:
    May 27, 2017 at 9:58 PM

    Hey hon, I just wanted to let you know that I’ve nominated you for the Growing Self Blogger Award. You always make me laugh and I want to share you with my followers. 🙂 https://wordpress.com/post/mainepaperpusher.wordpress.com/3401

    Liked by 2 people

  6. sustainabilitea says:
    May 27, 2017 at 10:20 PM

    I don’t have any dog stories like that, but I remember when the girls were little, they come to our room at night if they had a bad dream of something and they’d call (really quietly), “Mom.” Never “Dad.” So eventually, I pretended to be asleep and I’d give my husband an elbow. so he could get up with them. 🙂 Hee, hee.

    janet

    Liked by 1 person

  7. Geraint Isitt says:
    May 27, 2017 at 10:24 PM

    I don’t have a dog now but I have two cats that need to have drawers and cupboards open so they can find Narnia without breaking into things and keeping me awake

    Liked by 2 people

  8. Jami Carder says:
    May 27, 2017 at 10:26 PM

    Seriously, why do they have to sniff EVERY SINGLE BLADE OF GRASS????

    Liked by 1 person

  9. Erika says:
    May 28, 2017 at 12:20 AM

    Ugh. I’m glad you figured it out before it happened a third night and you flipped your shit. 😉 Bilbo has been up at night a lot lately because of storms. He has developed anxiety, and he always comes to ME, the disliker of dogs and other animals, for comfort. Yeah, mama thing.

    Liked by 1 person

  10. JoAnna says:
    May 28, 2017 at 1:25 AM

    If a dog’s nose could talk, oh what tales they could tell.

    Liked by 1 person

  11. Manja Mexi Movie says:
    May 28, 2017 at 7:49 AM

    “Stupid furry face”? Ahhhhhhhhhh, I root for her! 😉

    Liked by 1 person

  12. Benson says:
    May 28, 2017 at 8:57 AM

    I feel for Sadie. Smells evoke so much and not to be able to express your feelings must be terrible. Or maybe I am making more of it than it actually was. There was probably just some really neat smell of something rotten she had to sniff.

    Liked by 1 person

  13. orbthefirst says:
    May 28, 2017 at 10:47 AM

    Hopefully we wont have this issue with our newest edition, Willow the shih tzu, but I feel ya. I recall when mas old dog Zena took off and came home with parts of a quite old deer carcass. It smelled FANTASTIC to her, Im sure.
    Fun times.

    Liked by 1 person

  14. Joanne Sisco says:
    May 28, 2017 at 11:16 AM

    AHA!! That explains Theo recently! Yes, with the windows open, he smells and hears stuff too. At 4:30 afm he was sending out tentative meows like “are you awake?” “Getting up soon, maybe?”

    Liked by 1 person

    • joey says:
      May 28, 2017 at 6:05 PM

      OH Lawd. I feel for ya. I love having open windows, but I guess the smells were just too good this week. Apparently the animals can’t sleep with all those smells out there!

      Liked by 1 person

  15. marianallen says:
    May 28, 2017 at 3:44 PM

    Our cat, Tipper, loves the outside smells and sights. Now that the lightning bugs are out in force, he races from one open window to another, back and forth, upstairs and down. Charlie can’t hear it, and I developed the knack for that Japanese present-but-asleep thing during Natural Childbirth, so it doesn’t really bother me. Lucky for him. Otherwise, he’d be out there sleeping wit’ da lightning bugs. Or *I* would.

    Liked by 1 person

  16. bikerchick57 says:
    May 28, 2017 at 4:12 PM

    “I am not the dog whisperer…” LOL!
    I would like to trade you the dog that smells and paces for the cat that yowls at 4 a.m. because he’s awake and so should everyone else, including me, and he wants food and will not quiet down until he pushes everything off the computer table and tromps across my head a few times and I finally get up and feed him.
    Wanna? Wanna trade?

    Liked by 1 person

    • joey says:
      May 28, 2017 at 6:02 PM

      NOPE. No trade here! I gotta leave doors open so Catticus can travel room to room and that’s annoying enough. He does sometimes carry on, but I sleep with earplugs, which help.
      I give them dry food before bed and they don’t get wet food until the dog eats, which is never before 8:45. I am grateful this works for us, because I would put my cats in the shed if they acted like that in the morning! lol “Y’all can hunt spiders and howl at the leaves!” *slam*

      Liked by 1 person

  17. Judy E Martin says:
    May 29, 2017 at 2:20 PM

    Oh, I feel for you, Joey. I get very crabby when I am woken up in the middle of the night for no good reason!! Luckily when Roxy gets like that, she goes to my husband to go with her whilst she sniffs around outside! I am blisfully unaware! 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

  18. Fourth Generation Farmgirl says:
    May 31, 2017 at 6:59 PM

    I love the way you tell a story! And, I can certainly relate. Dogs are so sweet….and annoying sometimes. Glad you finally got some sleep. 🙂

    Like

  19. Judy @ NewEnglandGardenAndThread says:
    June 1, 2017 at 2:58 PM

    Pets are members of the family but if only they could tell us what is on their little furry minds life would be so much easier. 🙂 Hope she has settled down so you can get your sleep. 🙂

    Liked by 1 person

Comments are closed.