Ah, the Spoilt Brat!

He needs to be feeded, he needs to be carried around and he will even bite you!! May I introduce to you my dog, Maxie!!

These days I am alone at home. Well not entirely alone, my grandmother is there and of course my two dogs are there to keep me company. One of them, Piyasena, is out of the house most of the time these days, simply because it is a busy time with women. So its just Maxie and me at home.

Due to the fact that my mother is not at home, it is perfectly understood that Maxie is to be given maximum attention. He is missing his best loved care taker (my mother) and left alone at home when I have to go to work. So, he believes that it is his god given right to be spoilt as he wishes when I am at home.

The latest habit of his is to make me feed him. He refuses to look at his dinner or lunch and walks by as if not bothered about it at all!! Although I try and coax him to eat, he will put on his best airs. So now, I have to sit next to him and feed him mouthful by mouthful. Believe me, I am not doing this because he is being rather cheesy about the whole matter, I simply ignore him in the past when he puts on a show like this, but I cannot have a thinner version of him when my mother gets back, or else, all hell will break loose!!

At night, before I go to sleep, I am SUPPOSED to take him with me to my room to sleep on his rug. The orders given to me were to make sure that he is not left alone, in the dark, in the living room, where, poor him will have to get up in the middle of the night and find his way to my room!! So when I try to make him walk to my room, he absolutely refuses, puts all his strength in NOT moving one step!! So finally I have to carry him!

These days, he has managed to get himself an ear infection. Under the prescription of the vet, an ear drop needs to be put in both ear twice a day! This has become such a traumatic experience for me, and I dread even thinking about it! First of all, its impossible to catch him. Being a part of a poodle and endowed with a certain amount of intelligence, he has come to identify the bottle carrying the ear drops and runs away as soon as he sees it! Say that I finally get him cornered, I hold him tightly and just as I am about to put the ear drop, he shakes his head! I give him a slap on the head and scold him and try again and this time he bites me!!

I dare not complain all this to my parents as I am perfecty certain about the answer I will get: "You must be mistreating him, so that's why he is acting this way"... Now you tell me, what am I supposed to do? :)

But I must admit, all these complains of mine are simply because I love him and even adore his spoilt manners! Although I scold him terribly when he does these things, in my mind I am smiling at what a darling he is! Its not like I get licks on my face when I carry him to my room or his exhubarant joy at seeing me coming home or him following me everywhere I go! For all his spoilt ways, he is the best dog in the world!!