Corona. Home Office. Week 3 (out of 5) done. Isolation was increased to 5 weeks.
The best news: we are healthy!
This weeks blog is from a dogs point of view.
Hey there! I am Charlie. I was adopted in the USA. Later I moved with my parents to China and I’m very proud that I’m the only one in the family who barks proper Mandarin!
I have been practicing my German recently to keep up with the neighbor dogs… you can see I’m quite busy (cannot wait to see which language I have to learn next). Those neighbor dogs are quite alright, one of us is usually starting to bark and then the rest of us follows. We are a great team, defending our houses. It’s quite a nice concert (and I’m sure all those post men are super scared of us).
But recently, already a couple of weeks ago now, something has changed. My parents don’t leave the house anymore… (I wonder why). And they are not very amused with our dog concerts… I can tell you! They sometimes get really angry, especially when they are on the phone (they lock themselves in different rooms for almost all day and talk to strangers on the phone). I really wonder what’s going on and don’t understand.
I am not used to them being home during the day. All day. I decided to keep follow them around in the house to find out what’s going on. I stare at them… and still don’t understand.
But it doesn’t really matter. What matters is that when they are home that means all day food & play time, right? Eating all day… what a dream.
Well, it’s now day 19 of them staying at home and what can I say… there’s not more food and not more play time. In fact, they are interrupting my routine, especially my nap time! Now they are having lunch every day. In the same room where I’m usually napping. I need some “me time”, don’t they get it? At least the weather is quite good, still a bit chilly but sunny. So I love to be outside. All by myself. Chilling in the garden, enjoying the sun.
This is how my days go recently: waking up (in the nice cozy bed of my parents).
Stretching. Walking (I love those morning walks, nobody on the roads so I’m allowed to walk & run off leash into the fields. Amazing!).
Breakfast (getting a bit worried since I heard my mum saying that the dog food has been sold out in the supermarket… but I’m sure they will figure something out). Sleeping. Treat time (bribing me! Ha! But for treats I don’t care). Play. Sleep. Walk. Sleep. Play. Dinner. Play. Sleep. What an awesome life!
I don’t mind watching the world through our windows.
Actually, its been quite all right to have them around all day!
The parents point of view:
Charlie is so innocent. She doesn’t know what a virus is. She has no glue what’s going on at the moment. Corona? What’s that? She gives kisses as usual (and she’s the only one allowed). She steels food as usual. She’s lighthearted. She’s the best dog in the world.
She doesn’t get up with us anymore… she enjoys sleeping in…
That’s how you keep a dog busy. Sharing the soup bone with her (yes, sometimes she has to to in lockdown, too. When I’m on a customer call for example…).
When she did decide to get up… She’s our little co-worker.
She’s our reason to leave the house. We are enjoying the long sunny walks as much as she does.
She can get very demanding to be played with.
Day19 at home and the dog is looking at us, “see? This is why I chew those flipflops”.
The quarantine has us realizing why the dog gets so excited when something moves outside of the house, going for walks or car rides. I think I just bathed at a squirrel.
And yes, we think we are bothering her 🙂 because we have been home since 3 weeks…
Dear Charlie, be patient, it will be a little more weeks with us 🙂
Stuttgart547 