My Day Off and My Take On Dogs!

a dog is a dog is a dog.


and a day off is a blessing...and i am blessed.


today i had the pleasure of a day off and i had plenty of time to spend with rosie.  we slept in until a whooping 9am and then it was off to the vet we went!  the rest of the day was filled with errands and such, some with rosie, some without.


when i got home in the evening, i did the usual routine - fed rosie, walked rosie...and then i proceeded to do some art and talk to a few friends on the phone.  wow.  that day off made me TIRED....so i went and laid down (in rosie's bed which is actually a real bed) and i asked her to join me.  she did, delightfully so, and we both lay down and rested for 30 minutes or so.

i mean look at that face, it's soo ferocious! 

i was awoken abruptly to my phone ringing - of course - someone from work needed something...so i handled it without getting up, all the while feeling totally disgruntled that i was interrupted from my rosie time!  as i lay back down to rest, i look at the small dog curled beside me and i thought - IS THIS REALLY A PIT BULL?  THIS is the DOG that people are petrified of, the dog that makes parents run the other way with their kids, and the dog that, frankly, some people just want to do away with altogether!?  it's baffling to me!


the answer of course is yes, rosie is a pit bull, so as i laid with her it occurred to me quite strongly that yes, if you want to put a label on it - rosie is a pit bull.  and i'm damn proud of it.  but the reality is that rosie is a dog.  and a dog is a dog is a dog. nothing more, nothing less.


we teach our kids not to judge a book by it's cover, not to judge people for being black or white or indian or whatever.  


so why are we teaching our kids to hate a particular dog? i mean, it's a dog.  and a dog is a dog is a dog.

rosie sure had fun playing in the yard on our day off too!