My folks are here for a couple days. We were supposed to spend Spring Break together and we talked about it for a couple months but we never checked the dates. Turns out, we are a week off. They watch my sister's kids and thus have to be home to babysit. But they are free this week, and so decided to come up and hang out with their favorite son (I kid).
Anyways, my dad was explaining about them getting their new shower tub installed. It looks very nice in pictures and then he was explaining other projects going on and possibly even changing out the carpets. My mom was saying she was planning on simply steam cleaning out the current carpet. I agreed with my dad that now that the dog has been gone awhile, change out the carpet, get rid of the last bit of "smell". I tease my mom about this, the house doesn't smell, the dog passed away awhile back. When he was alive, that little chihuahua owned that house. You had to be careful not to run into a room too quickly or startle the stupid thing. It actually nipped all the grandkids that walked in the presence of that dog. Of course, what do all dog owners do, take the dogs side. My mom of course felt real bad, but the half rat/half dog still was able to bite four of the six grandkids. There was always the threat of "I'm just going to put the dog outside", but of course the following time we came to visit "hold on, we'll put him in his cage".
Getting back on point, my mom was totally accepting of the dog, and its smells and bad habits. But then my dad says "how come if I smell a little of cigarette, I have to take a shower". Of course, my dad smokes and he's gotten in a bad habit of going to these little casinoes back home, I keep saying they're illegal, but everybody corrects me that the casinoes pay taxes, so hush it, Killjoy. If those casinoes are anything like the ones I saw in Louisiana, they are fulll of smokers and people with dead eyes, just putting money in those slot machines. My mom says he comes home just stinking of cigarette smell, and it's horrible. I don't know that it's worse than the smell of dog in a house.
We had a hamster for about three years, it wouldn't die, and if I waited too long to clean the cage, it was the same thing, the room the cage was in would just stink, specially if it was warm. Why do we put up with it? I wasn't a huge fan of the hamster, and towards the end, nobody really liked that chihuahua, but those stinky animals had a hold. We had to ride them out.
My parents are at a crossroad now. Invest in a new carpet, enjoy that new chemical smell, or just clean it because you have been in mourning and you are fixing to get another dog? I choose new carpet, but I know my mom, they'll end up with another animal to clean up after. I will not be buying anymore hamsters or stinky turtles, I have two boys who do a good enough job of stinking up the place.
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