dog dependancy....is there a 12 step program for this?
I swear, the older I get, the more incapable of being without my dogs I become! Ive just gotten home from a 5 day long trip to Juneau, (a yearly show trip that I really enjoy) and all I could think about the whole time I was there, was how much I missed my pups  .
A friend, and fellow craftsperson from the show, Rebbecca, brought her little pug Heidi with her (Heidi is her business's mascot... she makes and sells beautiful dog jackets) and she very kindly provided me with puggy fixes from time to time throughout the fair, and that got me through!  She actually heard me crying (through the hotels super-thin walls) at one point. There was a knock, and I opened the door to have a tiny, bug-eyed face pushed in at me.  
Really....is anyone else like this? Is there such a thing as dogaholism? Sheepie-withdrall? Doggy-dependancy?  |
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| Hi, I swear to you I feel the same exact way! I don't like to go on vacation. I don't like staying away from my home even to go to work. I won't go out during the week after work unless I can take all 3 dogs with me. I won't go anywhere on a Saturday or a Sunday without my dogs for more than 3 hours. The funny part is my husband totally understands this. I will have a panic attack - I wanna get home I wanna get home. I just want to be with them my true blue wonderful friends. I think you are so lucky that you can work from home that would be a dream job. Just so you are not alone maybe not as crazy as me but not alone |
| I feel you on this one too! I have gone on 4 trips this year visiting my grown children. The trips have lasted anywhere from 3-5 days. I still have teens (2) at home but all I think about when I'm gone are my puppies. Next to seeing my husbands face when I get off the plane, seeing my sheepies wiggle their butts till they almost fall off when I get home is my favorite thing to see. They never sass or hang out with the wrong crowd. They never will be found at a drinking party. They just are my buddies. My husband tells me if I go somewhere they sit by the door until I get back. They miss me as much as I miss them. We spend all of our time together. I made my husband promise that if anything was to happen to me (God forbid) and I die, MAKE SURE MY PUPS ARE THERE FOR ME!!! funny I know.. but I have thought about it. It is my only funeral request. |
| Laurel knows I am beside myself when I am away from my fuzzies. My sisters and I once scare a poor yound man at a mall when we were all shopping out of town. We had no choise he had a puppy on his lap. The four of us sort of ran toward him asking if we could pet the puppy. What could he say with four middle age women running at him. The funny thing was that as soon as we started pet the puppy, the girl friend showed up looking angry. When she saw us cooing over the puppy she started laughing. So I am perfectly willing to make a fool of myself fior fuzzy love.
The worest prolem I have away from them is sleeping. A bed to myself, without being pushed all night. It is strange, I do not like it. I am going to Cabo next month, I will just have to have one of sisters sit on me in my sleep. |
| That's me too. When we go to Key West, I know a sheepdog that "works" in a glass store. I have to visit Dakota several times during our stay, and just huggle her. On the plane home, all I can think of is how exciting it will be for us the doggies to be back together! |
| My husband and I have been on a vacation together just once in the last 17 years.......we won't leave our dogs. One of us gets to go, but not both. Two days away is all I can take then I'm ready to come back to my babies.
When away I have to bite my tongue to keep from talking about my dogs.......my family is NOT dog loving. |
| Ummm....My sister and I are driving to Arizona from Chicago for Christmas....so we can take Izzie with us
We usually fly, but hate leaving Iz for so long. My Dad is actually flying up to drive down with us, and my Mom is driving up with us and flying back to Arizona.  |
| I am so with y'all on this one. I HATE leaving my dogs even for an overnight stay. Shoot, I bring them to work with me all the time, just because I miss them during the day. |
| Whew! It's good to know that we are not alone in our need for a 12 -Step program for sheepie withdrawal!
My hubby takes golf vacations here and there throughout the year, but I always stay home and hold down the sheepie fort. Since we won't vacation together without Oscar, we rent a house in Florida every winter and take him with us. What are ya' gonna do??? Laurie and Oscar |
| Laurie, does Oscar fly, or do you drive? |
| Hi, my name is Susan and I'm addicted to my dogs. A day doesn't go by I don't think about the dogs. I cannot keep my hands off my dogs. I share my meals with my dogs. I allow them to control my life, bed, sofa, etc. My friends and family shun me because my house has gone to the dogs. I cannot bear to be away from them for more than a day or two.
My clothes are covered with my dogs. My car windows have dogart on them. I know and call my vet by her first name, I paid for her new building, I'm sending her children to college, but I do not call my own doctor by her first name and know nothing about her personal life. I see her once a year (if I'm good), I see my vet almost monthly. I've come here hoping you can help me with my dog addiction. |
Deborah, we drive. I am such a baby that there's no way I could put Oscar on a plane unless he could sit in the seat next to me. 
We take two days to do the drive to Naples, stopping in Atlanta on the way down, and Chattanooga on the way back. This is our 6th trip, so we have it down to a science.
Laurie and Oscar |
SheepieBoss wrote: I've come here hoping you can help me with my dog addiction.
Welcome. I am afraid you have come to the wrong place  
Here you will find people who encourage your "bad" dog habits. People who will discuss food/toys/brushes and many other things and then rediscuss them weeks later. People who can offer tips and instruction on food/toys/grooming. People who will endlessly post adorable pictures of their most cherished family members. My name is Amanda and I too am addicted to my sheepie.  |
SheepieBoss wrote: Hi, my name is Susan and I'm addicted to my dogs. A day doesn't go by I don't think about the dogs. I cannot keep my hands off my dogs. I share my meals with my dogs. I allow them to control my life, bed, sofa, etc. My friends and family shun me because my house has gone to the dogs. I cannot bear to be away from them for more than a day or two.
My clothes are covered with my dogs. My car windows have dogart on them. I know and call my vet by her first name, I paid for her new building, I'm sending her children to college, but I do not call my own doctor by her first name and know nothing about her personal life. I see her once a year (if I'm good), I see my vet almost monthly. I've come here hoping you can help me with my dog addiction. Admitting you have a problem is the first step. I hope you never recover!!!! |
| i'm so addicted to my dog that i paid a large amount of money have him shipped with me to the usa as i was not gonig to give him up its only a ocean anyway i'd have rowed across it for him, told hubby the dog comes or he going by himself with out therest of his family.
he doesn't go to kennels he goes to family who spoil him more than i do and i have already bought his christmas pressents and got him extra special treats for his birthday only you lovely people don't think i'm insane. your dog loves you better than some faimly members do and still i do anything for my family so why would i not do the same for my dog he not just a dog, he has querks and strange habits that only i know he needs me but sometime i thnik i need him more. i have two children just one of them has four legs and lots of hair zoe and einy (what i'm a dog i don't believe you!) |
SheepieBoss wrote: Hi, my name is Susan and I'm addicted to my dogs. A day doesn't go by I don't think about the dogs. I cannot keep my hands off my dogs. I share my meals with my dogs. I allow them to control my life, bed, sofa, etc. My friends and family shun me because my house has gone to the dogs. I cannot bear to be away from them for more than a day or two.
My clothes are covered with my dogs. My car windows have dogart on them. I know and call my vet by her first name, I paid for her new building, I'm sending her children to college, but I do not call my own doctor by her first name and know nothing about her personal life. I see her once a year (if I'm good), I see my vet almost monthly. I've come here hoping you can help me with my dog addiction. Welcome, Susan. My name is Deborah, and I too, am addicted to my dogs..... |
| My name is Lynda and I'm clearly in the right place! I feel anxious about leaving Willoughby even when I know the kennel is very good (and very expensive!) I just told a good friend that I can't think of going somewhere for Christmas as it would mean leaving Willoughby and the cats! I'm away on a job interview, one of the conditions of my accpetance being if I can afford to find a house with a garden so Willougbuby has a place to run! |
 We are all such good doggie mommies and daddies! |
| I love this I'm so glad there are others out there....and I love Susan saying window art |
| You guys are all so awesome! ...and funny!
Juneau Public Market is the only major out of town fair I CAN"T take my dogs with me too...and I spent the whole trip trying to figure out how to change that!
To get there, we have to fly, and we just cant afford to fly 2 sheepdogs with us, along with our own airfare, and the cargo costs for all the art work  We could drive (we used to, every year), but it takes over a week out of work for Scott... two days of driving, and two days on the ferry each way.
All the same, I'm seriously considering working out a way to drive next year. That "Bridge to Nowhere" would have helped, darn it!
Our next trip is back up North to Fairbanks for Christmas, and of course the dogs are going with....my in-laws are looking forward to seeing THEM more than seeing us! |
Quote: I feel anxious about leaving Willoughby even when I know the kennel is very good (and very expensive!)
Our secretary left her beagle at the very exclusive and expensive kennel here and the dog came home with fleas...  |
Quote: All the same, I'm seriously considering working out a way to drive next year. That "Bridge to Nowhere" would have helped, darn it!
That bridge won't help with Juneau........you need a highway as well. |
SheepieBoss wrote: Quote: All the same, I'm seriously considering working out a way to drive next year. That "Bridge to Nowhere" would have helped, darn it! That bridge won't help with Juneau........you need a highway as well. It would have gotten us to an area with a quicker ferry ride....at least, I think so  |
| It's not just the dogs, it's the forum too. |
debcram wrote: When we go to Key West, I know a sheepdog that "works" in a glass store. Is that the really fancy glass store with the big windows? |
| Ummmmm, guilty too. |
Ron wrote: debcram wrote: When we go to Key West, I know a sheepdog that "works" in a glass store. Is that the really fancy glass store with the big windows?Yes. Glass Reunions on Duval. They also have a mosaic car in the parking lot. Click on "amenties" on the website, and meet Dakota! http://www.glassreunions.com/frames.htm If a sheepdog sitting amongst all that glass doesn't make you nervous, well, you are a stronger person than I! |
| super guilty here....an hour after i got my first chemo, i took panda to the vet for her first bout of ichys....10 days later bent over with stomach cramps, i take her to the emergency vet.....why? because it really isnt about me...its all about her...always.... |
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