A blog about a dog

I'd like to introduce you to my dog Chloe.  Chloe is a rescue dog so her background is a mystery to us and we can only wonder how she developed her strange habits.  We think she is a Great Dane x Mastiff x Ridgeback and think she is somewhere between 6-10 years old but don't really know for sure which adds to part of the fun of owning her.

In many ways she is the perfect dog.  She doesn't bark (ever), she sleeps all day, she doesn't need much exercise and she never chews anything.  However she is very stubborn - she knows exactly what she wants and how to get it.

For example she is very particular about her beds and where they are positioned.  If she isn't happy with the current location of her bed she will stand in the spot where she wants it and whine until we move it. Or if our other dog, Gemma, happens to be on the bed that Chloe wants, Chloe will run outside as if something exciting is happening causing Gemma to follow her and Chloe will then come back in and take the bed she wants!

We've had a lot of rain in Brisbane over the past couple of days and that has made life difficult for Chloe.  She doesn't like to walk in the rain - I can't blame her neither do I - but she needs to go for a walk because otherwise she won't go to the toilet.  She has access to our yard all day but for some unknown reason will not make use of it so she needs to go for walks.   So I took her for her mandatory walk the other evening in the rain, with Gemma - walking two 45kg dogs in the rain trying to have enough hands for them and an umbrella is always fun.

We went for a short walk around the block and Chloe decided when she has done her 'business' that it is time to go home, which I agreed with.  However we disagreed over the quickest way home.  Chloe wanted to turn back the way we came, whereas I knew that to keep going would get us home faster as we had walked most of the loop around the block.  So here I am in the rain at the side of a busy road trying to drag a huge dog who is not budging and none of us are getting any drier.  I won in the end after a bit of foot stamping

Sometimes I wish they could really understand us and learn when we are trying to do what's best for them - it can be so frustrating trying to argue with a dog!  But it's hard to stay mad at this face and most of the time she wins :-)