Tonight, after work, Kevin will go home to check out the now re-finished wood floors, air out the house for a couple of hours and most importantly, pick up Bailey from the vet where we had her boarded this week.
We've felt guilty all week about boarding Bailey and naturally we've made things worse by talking about it at length and discussing various scenarios:
1. Bailey probably thinks we abandoned her like her last family did.
2. Bailey is confused and wonders if she did something bad and is being punished...
3. Bailey is going to be really-really mad when we pick her up and never forgive us.
4. Bailey blames Kevin and not me because he was the one who dropped her off but she blames me for not saving her.
5. Bailey was so excited to go for a car ride with Kevin and go to the vet (really she loves the vet) and feels betrayed and tricked, and is so scarred from it she'll never be excited about going for a car ride or to the vet again.
6. Bailey is sad, lonely, scared, hungry and bored.
Boy if you could've seen our long faces when we talked about Bailey, you'd see how pathetic and sad we were about the whole thing. I can picture someone reading this post somewhere and thinking to themselves "They're just dogs..."
I think a sign that dogs are more evolved than us is they've figured out that guilt is the most useless of all emotions. I wonder if we're going to worry about the baby in the same way. Stupid question really- of course we are.
I have plans tonight in Seattle and I am sleeping over in Kent one more night ::snaps fingers:: so I won't be able to join the welcome-home committee for Bailey. I'm bummed but in some ways I'm relieved that Bailey won't associate me with the vet-boarding experience. But I can't wait to see everyone tomorrow (especially the dogs) when we head to Shelton to spend the weekend at my mother-in-law's. A week without my dogs is too long!
Oh yeah, I'm excited about the floors too!!!
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