Rottweilers Ate My Laptop

Rottweilers. Computers. Cameras. World Domination. Not necessarily in that order.

Rottweilers.
Computers. Cameras.
World Domination.
Not necessarily in that order.

Axel’s on the road again!

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It has been much quieter around the house for the last few days. There are four fewer paws of doom thumping and jumping about since Axel left on Sunday. The next couple of weeks will be devoted to Remedial Show Dog 101, where Julia magically turns him back into a show dog after a summer of wild abandon. Then it’s off to the shows, and hopefully there will be enough majors available this fall. If all goes well, he will be back in Chicago in mid-December as a new AKC Champion with a Rally Novice title.

I don’t really want to think about it yet, but I have to figure out what to do if all doesn’t go well. I want Axe to have a championship. But I don’t want him to be one of those dogs that lives his whole life on the road.

So, it has to go well. And that’s that.

I miss Axe (although I don’t miss him acting out his dislike of anyone getting too close to me or our house, and he defines “too close” as “in the same county”). Freya misses her little brother even more. They fight like closely-aged human siblings and there are days it really seems like they hate each other. But whenever one is away, the one still at home so obviously misses the traveler. It would almost be cute if she didn’t look so depressed.

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Comments

    • This has been a tough one for me, because there are times I do want the dogs to warn off suspicious strangers or people I dislike. I use “watch ME, not them” a lot though!

  2. I seem to think different about the over protection thing with everything that is now going on in life you never no when you’d need him around the house especially when home invasion is so rampent now days it’s become the number one gangster crime did you no that? anyway I don’t mean to offend anybody by this comment but I’m always looking for a real big and viscious protector like a Rott..remember no offence from the commenter.. Just a ~~mingler~~

    • We’ve had Rottweilers for 15 years and even though there have been a fair number of home and garage break-ins in our area, we have never been a victim. Most of them have been far from vicious, but they are big and serious-looking and serve as a deterrent which isn’t a bad thing sometimes.