I bit the dog!

So, there are funny moments in our life, and I think we should embrace them.


I was thinking about the prompt "what I am I doing to become stronger and braver" when I stumbled on this quote and

“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who have not got the guts to bite people themselves.”
J. August Strindberg - Swedish writer and playwright

- being a dog owner - it made me laugh, and then think, and before I knew it I was remembering something that happened a week or so ago, and this page popped out.

Journaling reads (just so you know why!):
Yeah!  You heard that right!  I bit the dog!  And she dang well deserved it too, let me tell you!  She may be a 6th month old puppy, but she weighs as much as my eight year old son and almost 3 times as much as my 4 year old daughter.  She is loving, but she doesn’t know her own strength.  Puppy training has not gone so well either.  She is smart, but she is stubborn and defiant to boot.  She knows how to push the limits.  Its almost like having a third child.  One day a friend suggested that I needed to make sure I was the alpha dog.  I needed to assert myself in a language she would understand, otherwise she would never respect or obey me.  I thought she was crazy.  A few weeks later I was full up on the defiance I could take, and the dog was just being stubborn, so I wrestled her to the ground and bit her ear!  It surprised her as much as it did me, but I have had very little trouble since!

Credits:

background: blend of Polka Dot Chicks And Soto Creations Altered Junk: paperset 38, Mixed Up 8, Sherrie JD: Studio mix 19
Tumble Fish Studio: Freestyle
Tangie Baxter: Keep moving forward, AJC 11 parcel 24, 30 & 33
fonts: Remington Noiseless, Scotosaurus, Script MT bold

Now, to sleep!