Janice M Cali
Aargh! My Dog Has a Domain and Blog!
Roux 'b Doux, watching
First of all let me say that my typing is horrible right now, as is my spelling, but with luck my spell checker and grammar checker (horribly wrong many times) will catch most of the mistakes. Maybe, maybe not.
I've been gone a lot lately, my blogs have suffered as has my writing. I've been diagnosed as bi-polar, which frankly sucks but also explains some of my behavioral problems. I tend to be more than a little impulsive when manic, I spend a lot of money when manic and I say and do strange things when manic. When depressed, well you've seen some of that so we won't go into it. Right now I'm manic, but not out of controlled, I'm also on the brink of depression due to many things that the real world, as I call it, is imposing on me. I'll write about these soon, but right now I want to write about my dog, Roux 'b Doux.
Roux, pronounced Rue, is a black standard poodle. She just tuned 10 on October 9th and I've had her for 8 ˝ years. That's a long time and frankly I love her to death, well not actually but figuratively. Anyway Roux is a hoot, she has a great sense of humor (note smile in above photograph), and enjoys the company of other dogs, especially greyhounds.
Well, a few months ago Roux decided she wanted to write her own blogs, I know I mentioned this previously. She has done so, I'm not overly impressed with her writing but she's doing all right. Recently she posted about her Australian greyhound friends and how my first greyhound has several Australian greyhounds in his pedigree. She is very proud of this since she thinks of Colt as her lost brother, since he was my first “heart hound.” I'm not going to explain this term, it is self explanatory, suffice to say this is a term I learned from one or two of the greyhound groups I belong to and it is very fitting as a greyhound can worm his way into your heart and steal it, forever, through life and into death.
Colt, Roux's Brother
OK, Roux got her blog. She has done the writing herself, it is much like my style but not at the same time. She writes in a much stiffer style, I don't think she is all that comfortable writing in “people” as she would be if she wrote in canine. But, get this Roux has gotten her own Orble domain. Since there weren't any Poodle Dog domains available, and the only pet one was about alpacas, and she didn't even know what those are until I explained, she didn't want that one. Most of the miscellaneous ones were not of her liking but she did find one under, I believe, relationships, that she thought fit her and her perspective on her relationship with people and other critters who are not Poodle Dogs or Greyhounds, of which she is a member through the auspices of her Australian greyhound friends.
She has chosen www.peopleareweird.net. That's my Roux 'b Doux. Always putting her opinions where her bark is. You see she has never truly understood the human race, and she probably never will, she does honestly think people are weird. She doesn't understand their thinking, their refusal to understand a Poodle Dog's desires and needs and their unwillingness to bow to the, perceived, superiority of said Poodle Dogs and Greyhounds. We have had many debates on this subject and will probably continue to do so.
Roux, Distain Personified
Now, I'd like to ask you, how do you tell your dog, your companion of 8 ˝ years that writing a blog is just not what a “Poodle Dog” does, that getting a domain for said blog is just not done? She won't listen, she never has. Getting this stubborn, hard headed canine to listen has always been a trial, and will undoubtedly continue to be one.
It is my unfortunate task to tell her she doesn't and won't have many readers. They will be expecting something similar to the person who was previously writing for the domain. The previous readers won't want to hear what a dog, even one of her caliber, has to say. Whether on relationships or not, they just won't understand the perspective of a Poodle Dog. Again, I ask, just what am I to tell her?
If you have any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate them. I don't want my beloved black poodle dog to think she is being rejected, and I don't want her heart to be broken, but I'm afraid she is in for a huge disappointment, you see, most of her friends haven't even found her current blog, and it is doubtful that they will even now.
So, I'll just have to tell her, her blog just isn't entertaining, funny or even relevant to people. We will have a long discussion on the subject, she will refuse to believe me and she will sulk, but with luck I'll be able to soften the blow and get her to give up on this blog. You see, she insists on using my laptop and I need it, but when she wants it she whines until I give in. What am I to do? I'm canine pecked.
