Or maybe I should say The Day My Dog Almost Attacked Someone And Gave Me a Heart Attack.
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Pretty much every morning starts out the same way. Little MPB wakes up, Adult MPBs begrudgingly pull ourselves out of bed, one Adult MPB takes Little MPB, the other Adult MPB showers. Once we get downstairs, Little MPB begins his day with a sippy cup of water and begins playing. Once Little MPB has his sippy cup in hand, the 90lbs friendly dog instantly goes to the back door to be let our for her morning bathroom break. It’s like a predictable morning waltz.
Well this particular morning, the waltz was executed perfectly. Little MPB woke up. Mr. MPB showered. I took Little MPB downstairs to start our day. I gave Little MPB his sippy cup, and let the dog into the backyard.
But that’s where the waltz abruptly ended. Within less the a minute of the dog being outside, I knew something wasn’t right. Our dog, was absolutely losing it! Like, completely freaking out. I could see her through the window and it wasn’t a normal reaction. She was VERY aggressive in her stance and not backing down. I couldn’t see what was bothering her as it was out of my sight lines. I thought maybe our neighbours had a visiting do in their yard and the two dogs were meeting through the fence.
It was so peculiar I looked at Little MPB, he was okay so I ran outside. It turns out someone was in our back yard and our dog was not happy about the intrusion! I had no idea who it was and just yelled at them to get out of the yard because the dog is unpredictable at the moment. I had never seen our dog like this before, it just seemed wise to get the other person out of the yard.
The person quickly went out the way she came.
And it donned on me, it was dog pooh pick-up day and we must have been the first house on the list!! Total light-bulb moment!
Once the dog pooh pick up lady left the yard, our dog instantly calmed down and ran to the door to go back inside. So, I yelled to the lady that I’d get the dog inside so she could come back in to do her pick-up.
Thankfully, I got outside and got the lady out of our yard before the dog became aggressive in her protection of her space. I honestly don’t know if she would have bitten or done anything, but I do know she was VERY unhappy about having a stranger in her yard with her. Rightfully so, I think. Now, I’ll admit, I’m a tad bit confused by all of this. Wouldn’t it be wise to make sure the large dog that doesn’t know you is not in the backyard when you enter? It seems like basic safety for her line of work.
Also, thankfully when I returned inside, I quickly saw that Mr. MPB had clearly heard the dog’s commotion and was already downstairs watching over Little MPB who hadn’t moved an inch.
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Our evening out was not at all what we expected…we had a third wheel, named Little MPB on our date! Which I think means it was really not a date.
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Our old nanny had a family emergency and had to cancel at the last minute. She was very apologetic and I was all don’t even worry about it!! Go do what you have to do!
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So, what was supposed to be date, turned into a family dinner-out at 5:30pm so that we could get home for Little MPB’s 7pm bedtime.
And for some reason both Mr. MPB had it in our heads that our change of plans at least required us to go to pub to have a decent beer rather then a kid family restaurant. But, alas 3 pubs later 2 of them did not accept minors and the one that did was just too busy to meet the urgent need of a hungry toddler. So, we settled for a Vietnamese restaurant in the parking lot of one of the pubs. And we very quickly learned that Little MPB hates Vietnamese cuisine or at least he thought it was more fun to play with then to actually eat. He basically only ate the snack food in his diaper bag and threw nearly everything else on the floor. It was really and truly a disaster – we were that family. Thankfully the staff though Little MPB was adorable and didn’t seem to mind.
Oh, and the Adult MPB’s didn’t even bother to order a glass of wine or a beer. Instead, we just ate as quickly as possible so that we could the tornado of Little MPB out of the restaurant! I felt so bad for the mess that they got a really good tip.
We got Little MPB home just in time for bed. And then quickly proceeded to poor a glasses of wine for ourselves, turned on Netflix and finished off the night by falling asleep at 9:30pm.
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But, honestly, I was so selfishly disappointed when our evening out was cancelled. Even Mr. MPB admitted being disappointed.
And, it doesn’t help that we have realized that given our old nanny’s circumstances and our schedule we probably wont be able to try for another date night until mid-June at the earliest!
I guess, this is just one of those things that parents get to deal with. And, rather then dwell in disappointment of a cancelled date, I’m focusing on the fact that at least our third wheel is our cute Little MPB and someone else got to clean up his massive mess!
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