The Bad period

With eye upraised his master's look to scan,
The joy, the solace, and the aid of man:
The rich man's guardian and the poor man's friend,
The only creature faithful to the end.
                                                                 George Crabbe 

Ladies and Gentlemen, Welcome to the "Not so good" part of having a FEMALE dog. So, like every female, dogs also have to go through heat cycles. The good thing is they have to go through this every 6-9 months and not every month but then it goes on and on for 21 days and not 3-4 days. This is going on for last 1 week and we are forced to keep her in garage but that explains a lot of her stomach upset part as well. It is pretty common to have a digestion problem during the heat cycle and that holds good for anyone who can reproduce. 

There are ways to have them spayed so that they don't have to go through that at all. Our neighbors had adopted their dog and adopted dogs are fixed by default. But we had purchased Alice and didn't want to spay her. It basically involves removing her Uterus so that she doesn't have to go through all this which also means that she can never give birth and I was very much against this. I didn't want to take away her right of being a Mother and after becoming a mother myself, I really wanted her to feel the same for her babies. I do agree that involves a lot of pain, uncomfort for her as well as us but in the end it's all worth it. The feeling when you have a baby is incredible. 

For the last 3 years I have been pushing hard to not have her spayed. I am not sure if I can do that anymore. I really become very emotional when I imagine her not being able to have kids and Raj understands that but unfortunately there is a huge difference between understanding and agreeing so he wants to have her spayed after this season of her heat cycle. At the same time I do agree that she will be much more comfortable by not having to go through this torture now and then given that she doesn't know what it is all about but then who knows she might have her own ways to gain that knowledge.

As of now we are extremely busy with Eesha's Birthday preparations and are giving little attention to Alice since she stays most of the time in garage. I ideally would like to breed her with a pure German Shepard and have her produce lovely and affectionate doggies just like her but I am not opening my mouth about this right now :) I  might need to study more about "How to convince your spouse for breeding your Dog" kind of book to do that.

Don't be disheartened by seeing all bad thing for last 2 posts. It's all  part and parcel of the game. At the end of the day she is still worth it. Someone who belives in just giving and not taking.