You ever have one of those feelings like, "I should be doing something...but what I am doing is just sitting back doing nothing?" That describes Thursday. Other than taking Indy out for a few breaks, pretty much did nothing until we left to meet Laurie at Texas Roadhouse.
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| Laurie and Marcia after dinner |
Leaving Indy alone is always a concern. If I leave her treats, she does not eat them until we get home. I don't have cameras in the motorhome, so what I have to say is just a "most likely" scenario.
We are leaving, I have the TV turned up a bit and on FidoTV. The AC is on, and AC fan is on constant low, so if it gets down to 74, the fan will still run. I hear Indy doing a small wimper...I leave a window shade open next to my computer chair. I go to that window and see her looking out. We drive off. More about this after dinner....
Laurie pulled up in her Mazda MX-5 (I think that is what it is) just before we do (she texted me a picture of her in the car). We are all about 10 minutes early...which is typical with each of us. Two hours later we are saying good bye. It was a nice dinner, very nice company, and always too short of a visit.
It takes us 25 minutes to get back to the motorhome. Indy has been alone for 3 hours and 15 minutes. She is ALWAYS so happy to have us home, and I got her outside before Marcia got into the motorhome. I sit out with her for a bit, but she won't do her business...she wants to lick my face, and then she wants inside. Inside she jumps up on Marcia and then goes back and forth between the two of us. I give her about 2 ounces of my steak that I brought back, and she gobbles it up. Then I give her the bone (I had the Ribeye Steak with Bone-in). At first she sets it in her bed, then comes over to us again. I change my clothes, and take her out where she does do her business...and then she wants right back in. She goes to her bed, where she left her bone, and for the next two hours the bone stripped clean. I got her to bring it over to me after the first hour, and although she growled at the idea, I needed to cut off a small bone end that is barely attached...then I give her the big bone again.
As for what she did while we were gone... The cover over the window of the driver door has this 'cave' which just fits her little head and neck as she looked out that window. Marcia's window is the same. My computer chair, which has a cover over it, now has the cover all bunched up on the seat, as she certainly put her paws up on the back to look out the window. I am sure she went from window to window to window. Eventually, she probably fell asleep. Hard to say if she even watched the TV at all. Now, she is crashed with a full tummy, tired from the anxiety of being alone, and tired from gnawing on that bone for two hours. When I took it away from her I praised her at how well she did with it, and tossed it in the trash.
While out with I caught this nice sunset with my cell phone. The cactus and bush was pretty much in the middle of the sunset, so I took a picture to the left of the cactus, and another to the right. 2 minutes later it was all gone...
Your description of Indy's action upon your return are identical to Zoey and Dakota's. They will not go to the bathroom until they welcome us home and smell where we have been. We have cameras in our house so we can see what they do. For the most part, they just lay on the couch and sleep.
ReplyDeleteIn the Condo I have cameras for outside, and turned the one looking out the kitchen window (which monitors people coming to our door) around and the first time she howled and howled and finally calmed down. Second time she did the same, but calmed down much quicker. The next two times I did not turn it around but I could still hear and she was fine within a minute...but that could have been because we put the Rumba in the middle of the Kitchen, not on, just sitting there. She did just fine. lol
DeleteOur pups are so funny ... SO excited when we return. It makes you just not want to ever leave them!! One of these days I'm going to set up my game camera on Cooper again. I did it once ... and he just sat and watched the window, waiting for my truck to come back in. So sad ... but so happy when I walk in the door.
ReplyDeleteSkruffy was afraid to stay alone too for a long time...Bubba helped that out a lot. Indy is doing much better, but she sure can screech when we get home...some think she is hurt, but she is just so excited.
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