So for all of you in the Boston area, I have a pet owners trade secret that I recently discovered. It is a large discount pet warehouse, PetEdge. They primarily take orders online or over the phone, but they have a warehouse right here in Billerica so you don't have to pay for shipping! I have found that I can either run over to the store and they have what I need right there, or I can call them up and place an order for pickup at the warehouse thereby avoiding shipping fees! And pretty much everything is super cheap! Case and point the Gold's Gym toy she has in the picture cost me a whopping $1.50...and the green Polo Shirt she has on in my other post, Absence and death are the same, was $3.00!! But I digress...
So I have been taking her there with me and picking up little things here and there as she needs them, but this picture was from the first time that we went together and I actually brought her in to the store. Not only was she pumped to see all the other dogs but she was literally like a kid in a candy store. She was all over the place sniffing things and attempting to steal toys. I could just envision myself, "I swear officer it wasn't me, my dog did it!" Well when we went in this time she was very persistent about hanging out in the stuffed toy aisle. After about 5 minutes of tugging me back to them I just surrendered and let her check them out. She immediately started picking up toys and putting them in her mouth and after a second or two dropped them back on the shelf. After a few passes at this she keyed in on that Gold's Gym toy, don't ask why, I have no idea what is so interesting about it. Normally I wouldn't have an issue with this except that this toy happened to be hanging on a hook about 3 feet off the ground. Upon realizing that I was unaware of her desire to have this toy she proceeded to jump up on the display shelving and reach for the toy herself. This is typically something I would giggle at, except that pretty much everyone in the store turned to look and see what had mad such a loud thud down in aisle 5 and I got the much dreaded, "You're child is out of control, they shouldn't be in this store much less the zoo!" look. Naturally I shamefully grabbed Dolce off the shelf put her on the ground and said "No!" It wasn't two seconds later that I turned around to walk away and she was back up on that damn shelf grabbing for that toy again! At this point I figured better to accept defeat and just give in to her wants so we could hightail it out of there rather then to fight with her over it, because I assure you she is persistent and we'd have gone back and forth like that all day. Well she could not have been happier or more proud of herself. She was such a little ham running around the store with that thing in her mouth showing it off to everyone in line for checkout. And when we got in the car to head home she insisted it be right by her side while she chewed away on her new treat, as I buckled in she looked at me with a big doggy smile looking so happy and proud and I swear to God if she could have at that moment she'd have said "Look mommy, I did it all by myself!"
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