Girl Vs. Dogs - The War is Started

Since day one, the dogs and Saiya have gotten along pretty well.  For the most part they ignore each other. Saiya steers clear of them and they are indifferent towards her. She hates it when they nose her in the face (especially since they stand eye-to-eye with each other). The dogs have several toys that look like stuffed animals and as you can imagine, Saiya has TONS of stuffed animals. The dogs have recently discovered that they can take Saiya’s stuffed animals out of her room. They do not really tear them apart, they just slobber on them a little. Of course, Saiya screams when she sees her stuffed animals in the dogs’ mouth.

The last couple of days, the dogs have been getting brave. They have discovered that they can take Saiya’s stuffed animals right out of her hands and run off with it before she gets a chance to do anything about it.

Last night, Saiya was very tired. She fell asleep in the car on the way to dinner and then we walked around Walmart for a bit looking for Christmas presents for my niece and nephew. By the time we got home, she was a little cranky, so I was getting her bath ready when I told her to take off her shoes and put her things away. All of a sudden, I hear a (THUMP) come from the living room and she starts crying. I head into the living room and ask her if she fell down. She said “no” and then proceeded to whine and cry at me, so I figured she was just throwing a fit because she didn’t want to take a bath and head to bed. So she reluctantly takes her shoes off and continues crying, all the way through her bath, and while I am putting her to bed. Poor tired girl.

She knows that she is only allowed to have three stuffed animals to sleep with plus Yoshi. I am looking all over for Pongo (a new panda bear that a good friend gave to us). She goes on and on about something when I asked her where he was, most of which came out as whining. Chris looks in the car, under the dining room table, in the kitchen, and finally he finds it under one of the dogs in the living room. As it turns out, one of the dogs stole her panda bear and ran off before anyone saw it. That’s why she was crying when we first got home. I only felt a little bad because she was not very clear when I asked her why she was crying. She simply threw a fit and most of what she said came out in between frustrated screams, whines, and sobs.

The dogs are sneaky enough to know not to take her toys with us in the same room…  When did we get "Special Ops Recon-Dogs"??  Let the battle begin!