Sweet and Sour... Sunday, May 8

"She's gotta go!" was the first thing that came out of my mouth this morning, and by "she" I was referring to the Pee Master Beast of Fur -- Pyun Chi.

Having Pyun Chi as a house guest was fun but she's kind of out done her stay. It was fun to watch her interact with Mi Nam but it definitely made for an uncomfortable weekened. Watching a movie last night or UFC this morning was constantly interrupted with "Where is she?" and poking around the house to find her, pick-up after her, or clean up after her.

But Snickers adores her.

I try to like her but I don't like babies -- four legs, two legs... or no legs for that matter. With having a baby around comes the training, the pooping and scooping, the extra time required, and the extra energy drained. Mi Nam was a lazy baby when I first adopted him. He literally pooped where he ate and then slept in his poop. Sounds funny but it definitely wasn't, nor was it cute or anything but gross and annoying. I was successful with paper training him but having to race down four floors when I made his bathroom move from the paper to the outside ground wasn't so easy. But now he's trained... he's domesticated. Pyun Chi is just pure wild beast, mind ya after much effort and much monitoring, I think this weekend we were successful with paper training her.

Snickers wants to keep her... here in Cheonan that is.

I was considering adopting someone's British bulldog just recently, as a means of a kind of last resort, if they couldn't find anyone else deal. They ended up finding the boy a home though. I'm trying to consider letting Pyun Chi stay her, on account that Snickers put up with Mi Nam despite really not liking him for a good while and on account that I was going to take in this other bulldog. But Pyun Chi -- a dog whose breed is nicknamed "Lion Dog" -- is going to be a huge beast.

Off the top of my head why she shouldn't live here...
1. She's going to grow to be 69kgs which means she'll be costly to feed.
2. A big dog needs a lot of room and I don't think Ggum Guum is big enough.
3. Long fur = one smelly dog and with Korea's monsoon summers and wet-snow winters, she's going to be wet a lot.
4. Although I don't doubt she'll be lacking in playtime/exercise outside because we're out by the river a lot, I don't think it's fair to Mi Nam to give her extra outside time, extra attention.
5. She's going to need some kind of bed to sleep on and where are we going to place that?!
6. Right now she plays with Mi Nam but is sometimes aggressive with him, and once she's bigger I fear her totally dominating Mi Nam.
7. If we plan on leaving Korea in about a year, what then? My family will allow Mi Nam to live with them but I doubt they'll take in such a large dog like Pyun Chi.

Snickers has his heart set on her though. He's never really had his own dog so this is all new and exciting to him. I feel like the bad guy, saying no, but I think it's the right thing to do, after all, I can't really think of strong reasons why to let her stay her besides the fact that it'd make Snickers so happy. But then again, isn't that what love is all about, doing all you can cause making the person you love happy makes you happy?!

QUESTION OF THE DAY...
What would you suggest?

QUOTE OF THE DAY...
I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.
-- Angeleaknewin Roy Croft