Lucky-isms

 Our GSD Lucky whom we brought from Ukraine in the fall of 2022 gives our lives some meaning outside of ourselves. He answers to Lucky, Doofus, and Bud. Some days he is a sweetheart and somedays a total Richard Cranium. 

He does his best to love Tanya and I equally. I walk him. Tanya feeds him, opens the door for him at midnight and six am, gives him his meds when necessary and worrys about him constantly. He has a big dog bed and will use it in day time when we are up and about. At night, He sleeps on my carpet some of the time. My son in law put LED lights under my bed so I dont step on him when I get up in the dark. 

Most times he sleeps in Tanya's room (I am a night hawk) either on the carpet or in her bed. (She has a queen, I have a twin). But he will come in a few times in the night to chack on me. If I am awake I will give him pets and back/hip massage. Then he may collapse on my carpet or go back to Tanya's room. 

Tanya will often be on her phone, checking news from Ukraine or texting her sister/friends. When Lucky wants to sleep it needs to be dark so he pokes his nose under her phone and flips it up, signalling time to shut it down.

He gets a denta-stick every morning. The other morning Tanya forgot so he dug into his box and got one out on his own. He knows the routine. Otherwise he never goes near his treat box. He's not very food oriented. Except for my bacon at breakfast and meat from our plates any other time.

One day Tanya gtd him some sausage out of the fridge. He lay in front of the fridge staring longingly at it with his sad brown puppy eyes. No luck.

I discovered he likes Dad's oatmeal cookies. so do I. Tanya bought generic oatmeal cookies at the grocery store. Dryer and not as sweet. He ate a few and then if I gave him one, he would take it and give it to Tanya. 

When we are eating he will come and mooch, knowing we usually share. If he has no luck with one of us he will try the other person. To make him go away we offer him something he hates, like broccholi. He goes off in a huff and eats his dry food. 

He also eats his dry food if Tanya gets the vacuum out. I guess he worries she will clean out his dish. He has a dish used to slow down dogs who inhale their food. It gives him a challenge is all I can say. We are old and boring, not up to mentally challenging a GSD with the intelligence of a 3 year old. (He and my grandson are intellectual equals???) Well, my grandson did get written up in Play School for disobedience.

When we moved from Regina to Saskatoon two months ago, he was very unsure about the whole thing. We put out his dog bed; he lay on it for a minute and was good to go. If the bed is here then this is home. 

Like any middle aged male (6 years old is about 42 in human years) he has suddenlky developed prostate problems. The vet said that neutering him would cause the prostate to shrink and pretty much disapper. Tanya wondered if that would solve my prostate problems too and could she get a two for one deal at the clinic.