Is My Dog Becoming a Politician by Susan Handle Terbay
By Susan Terbay • Oct 21st, 2009 • Category: Columnists, Susan Handle Terbay
Maxine is my furry companion these past three years. She is a mixture of daschund and Heinz 57. Don’t know if the mother was the daschund or the dad but safe to say – lot of mix breeding going on.
My children gave me Maxine on a Mother’s Day – totally by surprise – they were saving her from certain death and they decided I should be her rescuer!! I wasn’t real thrilled at first but she truly has been a blessing.
Lately, I have noticed a slight change in her actions of late and perhaps I need to stop watching so many political talk shows. I am beginning to think she is taking on a politician personality – such as being less truthful!!!
When I let her out in the morning to do her ‘thing’ she is given a treat upon entering back into the house and high praise for doing it. This began when she was a puppy. Lately I notice she comes in all excited and I’m ‘assuming’ she did her ‘thing’ and so she is rewarded only to notice that she then ‘requests’ to go out again. At such times I watch her and notice she is doing her ‘thing’ for real this time and comes bouncing back into the kitchen for another ‘treat’!!! augh!
I have ‘talked’ with her about the fact that she is becoming like a politician and we need to have some ground rules re-established. If she doesn’t do her ‘thing’ she doesn’t get a treat. Not sure she gets it yet – but she will.
Now as for the ‘real’ politicians – my suggestion is that they need to abide by the ground rules of honesty and integrity and if they don’t ‘observe’ them – well – their ‘treat’ of being re-elected will be taken away. They need to learn as Maxine learns – the hard way!
Copyright 2009 Susan Handle Terbay
Susan Terbay - Susan Handle Terbay shares, "As I look back over my life I have come to some profound conclusions. The most valuable gift both given and received is love. Throughout my life I have been blessed with the wisdom of children, the wisdom of the elderly and especially the wisdom of the dying. Not one person on their death bed wished they had made more money or worked more hours. They all wished they would have spent more time with their loved ones, enjoyed the beauty of this world and taken a chance to love someone. I learned so much in my life and have faced some difficult challenges. I hope that maybe something I write touches another and reminds someone they are never alone in this world - someone understands, someone has been down the same path and always God is within each of us. Of all the experiences in my life the greatest gifts I have ever received were six precious lives who came into my life and forever changed me. . From the moment each were placed in my arms at their birth, my children have taught me about life and love. Now the gifts continue with my beautiful grandchildren as I await to listen to their stories yet to be told, and their wisdom yet to be learned. Motherhood is a gift - something to be treasured - always."
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