old dog, new tricks

as a dog ages things happen... all the wonderful training is forgotten... bladder and bowel control is forgotten... food sometimes comes back up partially digested... eye sight fades to a hazy grey and then to black... hearing dims until only the highest pitched sounds get through... muscles and bones develop pains... heart murmurs, kidney stones, and organ failures increase... behavior becomes quiet weird...

and tonight a nauseating smell fills the living room in spite of the patio door being wide open and the fan being on high because happiness came out and sprayed very stinky very loose piles of feces across a three foot section of carpet and all the cleaning, scrubbing, and spraying did not get the smell out of the carpet or the room... alas, like the last apartment we were in, we'll need to replace the carpet once we go... this is the first time the smell did not go away though, so we'll need to buy or rent a carpet cleaning machine tomorrow or one day soon cuz the stink has me gagging (between the poop and the chemicals, the lingering cough i've been trying to get rid of is definitely back tonight... sleep might not happen for a while)...

sad and annoying, but much more sad...