a tale of two tails

I just want to recount a 10 hour period in the life of Elmer and Inu.

Friday night Micah and I returned home from volunteering at an AWESOME benefit concert to raise money and awareness for Love146 (www.love146.org). I was exhausted so I went to bed while Micah stayed up to work on something. From the bedroom I kept hearing commotion and eventually heard something that sounded like a dog fight.

First, Micah smelled Inu's gas (which is disgusting) and when it didn't go away, realized she had pooped in the kitchen. Which isn't typical. Inu is a big dog with BIG SMELLY poops. Then the dog fight happened.

Normally we pick up Elmer's food when Inu comes in from outside because she tries to eat it. But this time we forgot and Inu didn't notice it right away, but then saw Elmer eating something and decided that-though she wasn't hungry-if Elmer was eating it, then she wanted it too. So a fight ensued.

The dogs were up and at 'em at 5 in the morning, I got up to take care them to find that Inu had chewed her diaper (she is in heat and we are protecting our lively hood) and strewn the little chunks of cotton all over the living room. Also, Elmer had thrown up all over the living room. Micah cleaned up the vomit and I cleaned up the diapers, put the dogs outside, and went back to bed.

We were supposed to get up at 6:30 to go visit our parents in Auburn for the day, but didn't get up until 7:30. We packed all our things, got a new diaper on Inu, and started to load the car. I had Inu on her leash and was carrying something to the trunk when she lept and put herself in the trunk first. (We then closed the trunk to see what she would do, but when we opened it she was licking the inside of the trunk and resting.) Micah got her out of the trunk, then she ran over the neighbor's yard, peed in her diaper, then started flinging herself everywhere in attempt to be clean.

We got the diaper off Inu and Micah went on a quest with her to find a place for her to poop (she is very particular). So I tried loading the trunk again and Elmer jumped into it. Micah came to help and Inu joined Elmer.

Needless to say, we were very excited when we got both dogs in the back seat and could head on up to see our parents.

Love.

PS It was an absolutely wonderful weekend, by the way. We are blessed.