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Ziva

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Barked: Tue Aug 18, '09 4:44am PST 
What do you do when you're convinced that your lab puppy is smarter than you are? Here's one example: Every night I go to bed about nine o'clock. At about 12:30 am my lab puppy pees and poops in her crate. I leap out of bed to keep her from tracking through it and making a real mess. If I'm quick enough, it's just a pile and a puddle. If I'm not, it looks like something the monster from the black lagoon would be comfortable in. Tonight I didn't feel particularly tired so I decided to sit up until midnight, and walk the puppy. I walked her. She did nothing. I put her back in her crate. She peed. That's not all.

I stayed up until 3 am. No more pooping or peeing. I went to bed. I wasn't in there a half hour when the familiar smell of her poop came wafting into the bedroom. I leapt from bed to find that she had started the mushing around process. I caught her in time, though. There was only a small lump in the puddle. The rest of the lump was spread a bit, but pickupable.

I got down on my knees, crawled halfway into the crate, and proceeded to scoop and mop. My lab puppy is observing me do this. I refuse to look at the look on her face. I'm afraid I might forget she's only a puppy. With everything mopped and scooped, I crawl back into bed. My nerves are jangling. My puppy is scrabbling and whining. I give up. I get up. I am sitting here now writing this. Is my puppy smarter than me? She's asleep.
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