Lenny wearing her dolls shirt. Presley will tell you it's his pj's.
Clip from a 1987 sitcom, The Family Dog. It's blurry but the little girl is dressing the family dog.
Presley has been asking for a doog (she drags out the "o" sound) for a while now. I've been thinking about dogs since giving the little lost dog we found to our friends (where we visit him often). It was only a few short months ago but it just felt like now we were ready for a doog.
I was telling my Mom I missed, Hadley (the doggie we found) and was thinking of rescuing a new one. She mentioned that we could have her miniature doberman pinscher, Lenny (named after John Lennon). I said we would give it a try, I wasn't sure I wanted a small dog. Our dogs before were 100 plus pounds, I bought my dog Bailey because I wanted a running partner- not a lap dog. He hated to run and was pretty much a 115 pound lap dog!.. The dogs on my short list, another wiemaraner, golden or lab. I figured one would call to us from a rescue shelter.
I decided (I didn't really mention it to Mark) the way I explained this to Presley was we were going to babysit Lenny. So if we did need to give the dog back, for whatever reason she would not be upset. Presley was great, she told my Mom we could only watch him for this many days , holding up her two hands... Well once he got here, he's been a dream. I have to admit it was nice to have the unconditional love/joy of a dog in the house again. Mark enjoys him to and lets him lay with him.
Lenny is so patient with Presley, she dresses him up in the doll clothes and wants him next to her side at all times. We even took him to "show and tell" and he let all her classmates pet him. He learned to use the doggie door the first and hasn't had an accident since the first day. He was mostly an outside dog so I wasn't sure how he would do.
Lenny sleeps on his bed in Presley's bed. This arrangement has helped us keep Presley in bed at night. We may move him to the floor next to her bed, this was the original plan. But the first night he kept coming to our room. We put him on her bed and Presley held his collar to keep him in her room. As long as he stays in his bed I think I'm ok with it...
I wasn't sold on a small dog before Lenny but he's pretty much as easy as a cat. The great news is my parents and sister-in-law have already offered to watch him when we leave town. That is something that never happened with our weimaraners!..
Oh since having Lenny he reminded me of this cartoon I saw as a child. I don't think there are very many episodes. But I found a few on YouTube. And the episode I saw showed the little girl torturing, I mean dressing the family dog. How fitting...
