I’m sorry to make yesterday sound so serious. I’ve just been feeling pretty down the past couple of days. As most of you know I’ve been wanting a dog for a long time. The earliest post that I can find about this subject on my blog is from August 7, 2007. Recently, I’ve been feeling extremely frustrated because I can’t have one and these feelings have come up in full force this week.

When I lived in Vanier, I lived in my parents triplex. It had a very large backyard and it would have been the perfect place to have a puppy. I spoke to my family about it and the idea got shot down pretty quickly. They didn’t want me to get one, because it would strain the relationship with Jessie. I then agreed that it would be a better idea not to have a dog at that time and get one once Jessie passes away.

We’ll Jessie unfortunatly passed away this summer. So, I brought up the idea again to get a dog. The idea was not welcoming at all by my brother because it would ‘ruin the grass’. I argued for a while about this because it wasn’t up to anyone but myself to take care of this dog. I got so frustrated that I even started emailing other rental properties to try and find somewhere to live and be able to have a dog. Finally, A. convinced me that renting somewhere else was a bad idea, because we should be saving for a house. Our own house = me getting a dog.

Here I am today. Frustrated, no dog and constantly being told that it’s not the right time. On top of this, my parents recently bought my brother (at the triplex) a new cat! It’s still a pet and it’s in the house! I’m still very not happy about this, because part of the reason I wanted to move was so that I could get a dog. But still they try to argue with me how cats and dogs are different. They only got the ‘barnyard’ kitten to ‘catch the mice’.

I don’t know what else to do. A. yesterday told me that finally, because he knows I want one so bad, we can get a dog. Thinking about it, after what I know now, I think it was only to try and help me not take it so bad that one of our close friends just got a (very cute and adorable) chocolate lab puppy. A. said that we could start looking at the option. Except once I got home, I begin to hear the speech that ‘it’s still not a good time’ or ‘we don’t have to get one tomorrow’ or ‘why not get one after we do the floors’… but then says ‘I’m not trying to discourage you to get a dog’.

After dinner, we head over to our friends house, who have the super cute chocolate lab puppy and played with it. It was really cute. While we’re all chatting, our friend Ry asks A. when will we be getting a puppy… A. then says “not before the spring’.

Can any one else see why I’m so frustrated? I’m not sure what to do about this. A. has this saying “It’s easier to be forgiven then to ask permission” but I don’t really want to go this route. I want the dog to be an enjoyable experience, but we just can’t seem to agree on this.

Does anyone have any advice for this sort of situation?

 

Another thing that I should probably mention, is in the next 8 months, we plan on:

• Doing the floors
• Finishing renovations
• Going to be leaving for about a 2 week vacation to BC
• Maybe going to go on a 1 week vacation down south

So I can sort of see how it may not be a good idea right now to get a dog.. but people who have dogs, they can leave on vacations too. So to me it’s not a really good argument.