New Day New Bruno!
Hey friends, fans, and followers! It’s me, Bruno.
I hope you had a great weekend because I sure did. I love Sundays because it’s cleaning day and that means mom brings out so many different toys for me to play with. There’s the dust rag, the broom, the mop, and my all time favorite, the vacuum! My biggest brother is scared of it for some reason so I protect him by charging at it and barking, and then he’s barking and then my other brother is barking and my sister starts barking and then mom starts barking and everyone is having so much fun! It tires me out a lot so when mom puts me in my crate for my afternoon “time out stop bothering me I need five minutes of peace please” nap I conk out for a few hours. I think Sundays are the best day of the week honestly!
Mom and I had a good chat about my progress the other day. I’m not giving up but she told me that people weren’t signing up to say they would keep an eye on me. She told me not to get discouraged, that people are busy, and watching a bulldog feels like a big responsibility. God forbid I get hurt or something, how do I think they would feel? I hadn’t thought about it that way and she kissed my head, told me I was a good boy, and then very gently told me that I am also a bit self centered.
I didn’t like that, but I let her explain, and after I showed my dissatisfaction by peeing on my brothers crate pad, she said “This is exactly what I mean Bruno.”
Well that hit me kinda hard, because she’s not wrong. I do pee on things when I am mad at her, I don’t listen when I don’t want to, and I do act like a bull in a china shop when I want something. I never stopped to think about anything other than myself. Well wait that’s not true. I think about April and I do nice things for her because she does nice things for me. I told mom about this and she said “But why does someone have to do something nice for you first? That’s self centered and selfish.”
Ooof. Mom must be really old because she is pretty wise.
So today’s entry is pretty short because I am reinventing myself and I don’t quite know how to do that so I have to put the effort into that before I fall asleep by the woodstove again. Can you help me become less self centered? What do I have to do?
OH I know where to start! Okay, so normally I would include the newsletter link at the bottom of this, but what if instead I shared the link to learn about the project that mom and dad are going to start working on this January? Go check that out because they are helping dogs and it’s a really great project. That link is HERE and I will be back as a new and improved Bruno tomorrow!
Tail wags and belly rubs! - Bruno