God I hope that children are different than puppies.

I just don't understand.  How can one puppy train up so well and then the other wouldn't listen if you were trying to save her from being eaten by a ravenous hyena.  Amelia is our fourth and youngest puppy and lately I want to either put her through a wall or leave her on the side of the road.  With my luck she'd come back. 

Now I am concerned.  I feel at a loss with her.  Should I, could I, ever handle a child if I can't handle a puppy.  She is just so innately bad.  No I take that back, she's not inherently bad, she doesn't know the difference between good and bad.  Bean (our third puppy, who is actually behaving the majority of the time.) wants so badly to be good, she has guilt when she's misbehaved and she even accepts being punished when she deserves it.  Bean just wants to be such a good girl, Amelia on the other hand wouldn't know how to be good or bad if her life depended on it. 

Back to children and puppies.  Not having children I can only hypothesize, but I imagine they are more work but are they also more rewarding?  Do you see what you're trying to teach them reflected in their behaviors?  I have this feeling that when the time comes I am going to be a good mother, I have wanted to be a mom for as long as I can remember, but I have doubts.  Now maybe I shouldn't be hanging my ideas of parenthood on how I deal with my pets, but  today shook my confidence.

Amelia is so bad!




::WARNING:: This picture is going to look really cute.  You are going to look at it and say, "That angelic face, those big button eyes edged with little lashes.  She couldn't be as bad as Caroline is saying."  Don't be fooled!  She is! She does not listen, to her own detriment.

This is the face of a very bad puppy!!!