November 13 2014
Up slightly earlier than usual this morning. Came upstairs and my boy was very sleepy. When we did our morning couch cuddle he fell right back asleep. All my other dogs have wanted to make a beeline for a pee as soon as they wake up - not this boy! I figured he was a little knocked out from the increased Prozac dose. I made coffee and just kept sitting with him for awhile listening to his breathing and touching him. Speaking of breathing, aparently he had some lung damage from the heartworms. Do we need to do x-rays to find out how bad it might be?
I needed to get in the shower and wondered if I should do that and then walk him afterward, but when I stood up he woke up and we went out for a brief pee, they upstairs for breakfast, which he ate well and then out the door for a walk...
And one of the bad neighbors was just backing out the driveway in one of their huge trucks and Milton barked and lunged, but not in a crazy frantic way. Maybe he's just acting out what I'm already thinking? :-) So I walked him down the driveway and went the other way and very soon he was fine. But we saw a few other people - that we were able to avoid - but he did a little of the growlies. I didn't pay attention to his ears and tail, but he didn't seem aggressive about it, just "I'll tolerate you being in my neighborhood but I'm telling you I'd prefer it if you weren't here." Gosh, he's just like me..!  ;-)  We came back, I showered, he slept, I picked up the sleepy little love and put him in his crate, and went to work.
Came home and he was glad to see me, waggy tail, out to pee on a Bush, mom made lunch, Milton hung out and came around once to see if I'd drop anything, eventually gave up (I've never given him people food and certainly never dropped anything when sitting at the table!), I was able to easily put him in his crate and go back to work.
Came home after work and my sweet Miltonator was really glad to see me. Did the reachies, waggy tail, I bent down to hug and kiss him and scratch his back and tell him how happy I was to see him and that there had been a lot of missing. He can stand with his front legs (arms!) on me for a long time! He ate a good dinner, we went in the cold dark rainy backyard, he did his business... crazy bad neighbor lady was outside on the deck yacking on her dang phone in the dark and the rain!! I swear the woman is nuts. I have never talked to her, but he hubby is a pretty decent guy... but they have high school / college age boys that enjoy throwing trash in my yard... anyway, that's neither here nor there!
So today we've worked on "look".  And I realized I was doing it wrong. I was saying "look" when he was already looking at me and then held eye contact for a long time. But I realized he needs to look at me when he isn't already. So we practiced that today. It's kind of hard because he doesn't look away from me that much. :-)
So now it's cuddle time. Another pretty good day.