Last year when Brittany was diagnosed with Asperger's, I found this fun picture book entitled, "Cats have Aspergers." As Brittany's most favorite thing is cats, it was a great match. She loved the book and still refers to it occasionally.
Mary, on the other hand, loves dogs and we had made a deal with her that we would get a puppy for her when she turned twelve. Unfortunately for Brittany, my husband is allergic to cats. At any rate, counter to our deal with Mary and my good judgement, we adopted a 2 1/2 year old yellow lab mix last month, as a running companion for my husband and perhaps to boost the male population in our estrogen dominated household.
It was about this time that Brittany discovered, in the back of her book, additional titles by the same author, one being: "Dogs have ADHD!" I have to agree that after a month of having Lucky in our house, it feels like we have just added another "special child" to the "pack." Ever see the dog named Dug in the Disney film "UP?" I swear if Lucky could talk half of his conversation would be interrupted by squirrels too!
Although, I am kinda wishing I spoke dog language or autism language or maybe just Pig Latin because English is just not working to get everyone getting along as they should. For the most part, Lucky is a good dog but he just can't help himself when my kids, who are just trying to have fun, start acting like rowdy puppies. He just has to literally jump in the fun. That just doesn't ever turn out well. He starts nipping and all of a sudden, it isn't fun for the girls anymore. No matter how many times I explain it however, my girls don't seem to get it.
We are looking into obedience classes for Lucky but really I need them for my girls too :). I hope that even if Lucky has ADHD, that won't prevent him from getting past some of these issues because I'm not sure they have Ritalin for dogs :)
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