smart as her namesake

apparently sagan is quite a good dog. kara says we won't find another dog so willing to go to bed. we crate her at night and when we're out of the house. this started when we first got her and she was rambunctious and not well housetrained. (she was cratetrained before she was housetrained; i guess that's usual.) plus she'd had some altercations with max and we didn't want to take chances. and she's been in our lives now for, what, 3 years now? is it possible it has been that long? and still we crate her.

it's weird how willing she is. when we're getting to go out, all we have to do is start putting on our shoes and sagan runs right into her crate. runs right in. sometimes if we're just changing clothes, with no intention of leaving the house, she takes that hint too and goes into her crate.

and at night, these days pretty much right at 8:30pm, she'll jump up on the bed (where we're invariably watching tv [these days either csi or the daily show]) and stare at kara and whimper. she knows it's bedtime and she's ready to go.

basically the only time she's irritating is when she's immediately out of her crate (when i get up at 4:30am-ish and when i get home from work in the afternoon i set her free) and when kara comes home from work - at those times she's a bit excitable and jumps up on us. actually in the early morning she doesn't jump up; she just stretches. and she pretty much knows i don't like her jumping on me, so in the afternoons she doesn't. so i suppose the only really bad time is when kara gets home in the evenings.

i don't know why she knows i don't like her jumping on me, but she doesn't know kara doesn't like her jumping up on her.

she hasn't attacked max in quite a while. a few months. that's good.

i can't quite bring myself to say i like the dog, though. dogs, by their nature, are annoying. she's bulky and stinky. drooly. i'll say this: i like her when she's asleep, and snoring. i like her snores. there's a buzzsaw inside her. i'm entertained by that. but that's all i'll cop to right now. sagan clearly has quite a high regard for me, which i think is just silly.and, yeah, that's a vhs tape of "the devil in miss jones" under the bookshelf. good eye.