So much for leaves

You may have read in my previous blogs that I have a few problems, including a leaf fetish. When mom takes me out for walks I go for every leaf I see.  She finds it quite annoying.  This habit has improved a bit over the last few months, but I am still struggling with the desire to chase and eat leaves.

Mom thought that since I had a thing with leaves, she would try to pose me with some.  The last few days on our walks she's been collecting leaves that she finds on the ground.  Tonight she thought it might be fun to pose me in her collection.  Was she in for a surprise!  I absolutely hated it--I wouldn't smile and kept jumping out of the picture.  This was a big shock to mom because I am generally so good at doing what she wants.  But these were dry and prickly, and sitting in a pile of these was so terribly uncomfortable! You can tell by the look on my face I wasn't happy. And as much as I love leaves, I didn't even try to eat one.

This may have stopped me from eating leaves permanently.  Time will tell.  If it did, mom may be telling others how to cure their animals of a bad habit--just saturate them with whatever it is they are obsessed with.  

Two good things happened this week, though.  I got to be in the "Behind the Scenes" portion of 805 Living magazine this month.  Mom has been shooting for them for 10 years, but this is the first time I got in the magazine. The blurb even gave a link to my blog, so I feel really special.

But the best thing was seeing Grace and Luke today.  It was loads of fun! Grace fed me from her hand.  They played blocks, did crafts, and read books while I snuck around and chewed their toys that I found on the ground. I hope they don't mind that there's a few chunks out of some of their things. I just couldn't help it.  They were having so much fun and I needed something to do. A dog needs to do dog things.