0:00-10:00 sleeping
10:00 wakes up. stretches. the dog has two kinds of stretches. he puts his two front paws out and leans all the way back until his chest touches the bed. his second stretch is to push himself all the way backwards. he normally sits on the bed for a few minutes looking disoriented. sometimes he cleans himself. today i walked over to the bed and wished him a happy birthday.
10:00-10:30 random ambling around the room. he steps off the bed and gets a drink of water. he’ll walk to the door, sniff, walk back to the bed, sniff and then cycle through the room. he’s basically making sure everything is ok. he does a good job.
10:30-11:00 walk. when we take the dog for a walk, he bounds, sniffs and goes to the bathroom. he inevitably scares a few girls along the way. he will spend a few minutes smelling an otherwise indistinguishable mound of dead grass. he’ll spend an eternity deciding where he is going to go to the bathroom. he sniffs and circles and sniffs and looks and finally makes a decisions. today we didn’t see any other dogs which is a good thing. if we see another dog, he’ll chase it.
11:00-12:00 we all went to lunch. when we go to lunch, we tie the dog up outside. we can’t leave him in the room because he’ll fiddle through the trash and take all the good bits up on the bed. he seems to enjoy being on guard duty. he likes to dig and sit in the shade. we tie him up and he watches us leave.
12:05-12:30 jota’s present. we bought him half of a smoked pig’s head for a birthday present. we also made him pose with his birthday hat on. he didn’t like the had but has been working very hard at finishing off the head. he didn’t understand why we were being so incredibly nice to him.
12:30-12:45 he bores with the head and starts going after flies. we have gigantic flies here. they are about the size of a dime and jota has taken it upon himself to rid this part of the world from them. he chases them around the room and snaps at them with his jaw. he is rarely successful and when he is, he ends up being more confused than anything. he caught one today and, after killing it, he just watched it for a minute or as it lay dead on the floor.
12:45-13:45 sleep. when we are up and he is asleep, he sleeps on the far corner of the bed making sure that he can see our every move.
13:45-14:30 he is up and playing with his toys. he has a number of squeaky toys that he throws around. sometimes he decides to find them all and pile them on the bed. he also has a stuffed bull which he was especially violent with today. he tore all the stuffing out of it and left its mangled, wooly corpse on the floor.
14:30-16:30 sleep. lots of playing wears him out.
16:30- 17:30 guarding outside while we get food. no one is exactly sure what he does out there, but we all end up speculating.
17:30-19:00 we all eat on the roof. it’s a special, jota celebration. we give him all the left over bones but he seems to be full from the pig earlier today. he walks around and never strays far. we sing happy birthday for him and he only looks when we say his name in unison. i think he’s a bit worried.
19:00-23:59 sleep. he’ll wake up whenever anyone comes in the room or goes out. he’s a big fan of barking. i don’t understand why he barks when people come in or out. he doesn’t realize that he isn’t really scaring them at all. well, he’s only 1.
total of 18 hours sleeping.
the hat reads 'happy b-day jota #1 dog
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