While my nicknames for Addie are "Angel," "Sweetypie," "Cutie,"
"Addie May," etc., others have nicknamed her "Jaws", "Shark Bite" and
"No No Bad Dog." (Given with affection of course... I hope!) I admit
that their nicknames may be closer to the truth most of the time, but in
the car, Addie is a dream dog.
On our recent trip we
drove 13 hours to get to our destination in Washington State. Addie was
amazing. We made regular stops to take her to go potty, which she did,
and walk her around a little.
We had the back of our Passat wagon folded down and she slept
most of the way. Since she is usually such a wild thing, I figured we
got lucky.
After arriving at our destination, of course,
she made up for lost time and was crazy wild! Our friends have a sweet
little Boston Terrier named Maggie, and Addie made her life miserable
for ten days. I was afraid I'd made a terrible mistake imposing her on
our dear friends, and poor little Maggie. She was a handful, and a
pain, and exasperating, but Addie had a great time and loved everything
and everybody. (Even Maggie, as long as she didn't get near her food, water or toys.)
On the way home we took several days to drive down the Oregon coast.
I was apprehensive about Addie being good in the car because I thought
maybe that her behavior on the way up might have been a fluke. But she
was absolutely wonderful for all three days! Sometimes she would sit
perched between us, watching where we were going. But most of the time
she just slept in the back... I was very impressed. Little Addie May was such an Angel! And turning out to be
so great! We so enjoyed her company.
When we got home, she went wild again. She ran around at full
throttle for hours in the backyard and just couldn't settle down. Its
been days now, and she still hasn't settled down! I told Woody we were
going to have to go back on the road!
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