{"id":6133,"date":"2004-07-21T18:58:50","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T18:58:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/21\/learning-to-sit\/"},"modified":"2004-07-21T18:58:50","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T18:58:50","slug":"learning-to-sit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthwidemoth.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/21\/learning-to-sit\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Sit"},"content":{"rendered":"\u23f3 Approximate reading time: <\/span> 5<\/span> mins<\/span><\/span>

At Fashion Square Mall, Saginaw, Mich., my mother bought an overpriced little
\n Yorkshire Terrier in 1990; "little" means he was smaller than the
\n large outdoor dogs we kept in a pen on the edge of the yard. "Little"
\n means he was vulnerable. He would be staying in the house.<\/p>\n

Max grew to be large for a Yorky. At eighteen pounds, he muscled over other
\n toy pets. To the veterinarians with wide eyes and park walkers who would stare,
\n whisper, finally ask, we explained he was just a bit over-sized, big boned. Always
\n tall, Max, and wide.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

After weeks and weeks of combing through options, we got a call two days ago
\n that a pet rescue was available. "Get in the car, folks. We’re saying farewell
\n to Max, today." And we drove to Shawnee Mission, Kan., to Animal Haven:
\n a dog playground abundant with frolicking and free play, shade, half-filled
\n plastic swimming pools. A black lab stood in one of the pools, stooped like
\n a flamingo, watching. Max trembled; always small and fragile.<\/p>\n

There was the time we thought he was nearly gone, one warm weekend afternoon
\n during our first months in this house. Ph. had a soccer match; I was the coach.
\n Scuttle, scuttle before heading off for a match. But Max was on the deck, frozen,
\n quaking and hunched with his head close to the wood surface. His mouth was bleeding.
\n This was it<\/i>. Did he eat something (glass, nails, metal burrs)? What?
\n Time was short; we had to rush off to the match while D. stayed behind to console
\n Max, take him to the emergency vet, since we were sure he was dying. D. tugged
\n on Max, and pulled. He seemed heavy; he wouldn’t separate from the deck. Turns
\n out he’d lain down on the deck and his tag had fallen through one of the gaps
\n between the boards, shifted, and lodged in a perpendicular T-lock. He was stuck.
\n Following a quick check-up (to find out he’d only bitten through his lip from
\n the resistance and trauma), D. brought him to the fields where his light step
\n said relief, liberation, resurrection. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Here’s a little piece of the email I sent to help him find a new home: <\/p>\n

His hair currently (for summer) isn’t cut Yorky-standard. It’s rather
\n short for his comfort. In fairness, he tends to have unsavory breath, and the
\n vet has said we might consider having his teeth cleaned, but we’ve never gone
\n ahead with that.<\/p>\n

He’s good around kids, and hasn’t ever shown signs of aggression toward people
\n or other animals. In his young days, he would chase squirrels and cats, but
\n he never caught any of them (okay, if I was telling this story to him, I’d
\n allow that he caught one or two!). He thrives on positive attention. He’s
\n happy when new people come to the house, and he has an odd habit of sitting
\n on people’s feet. He’s not a licker, and in his old(er) age, he’s mellowed
\n out. He doesn’t run in the house, chew on anything (never did) or leave much–if
\n any–hair behind. He tends to have dry-ish skin on his lower back, and so
\n he’ll try to itch his back on things from time to time, especially with the
\n shorter haircut. He also has a small mole-like thing above one eye, but the
\n vet said not to worry about it, and it hasn’t changed in size for the past
\n three or four years–since it first showed up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

<\/p>\n

cookie peppy brandy (freak-a-leak) jake fang sheba
\n (freak-a-leak) minerva tony pigeon max (freak-a-leak)<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

For the first time in thirty years (minus a few of those early,
\n newborn months), I’m without a dog. Cookie was the first; several others followed.
\n According to my count, there have been ten, including Max. While I was an undergrad,
\n Tony was boarded at my parents’, but I saw him fairly often. My dad reminded
\n me regularly that Tony was my<\/i> dog. For the last fourteen years, Max has
\n been a part of the mix. He lasted longer than any of the others, outliving Brandy,
\n Sheba, Mini, Pigeon and Tony–those whose lives coincided with his. <\/p>\n

For the last ten weeks or so, we’ve known that, inevitably, we
\n would have to give him up. The slow sale of the house here in KC meant we couldn’t
\n buy a home in Syracuse, which meant we would have to rent, which meant we would
\n have trouble keeping pets. Sure enough. <\/p>\n

Max wouldn’t have liked the snow, anyway. He doesn’t even like
\n walking on grass. We had two options: find him another place to live or, er,
\n do the unthinkable. <\/p>\n

There’s really very little else to this story, but it’s unusually
\n sentimental for me. Max was my mom’s dog. I inherited him when she died seven
\n years ago. "Who will take in Max?" I will! He was never anybody’s
\n favorite pet, never easy to train, never at ease with his place in the world.
\n Skittish, you could say–terrified of feet and all types of balls. He had quirks,
\n a small dog’s stubbornness, and a grotesque, unrefined personality. He was simple.
\n Never learned to sit on command. His cohort–Sheba and Tony, mainly–could sit
\n when told. They’d sit, Max would have a look, see the snacks distributed, finally
\n sit too. I don’t think he ever connected the command with the action. It was
\n the snacks, imitation, and delayed social intelligence among dogs. Do what they’re
\n doing. He was easily thrown off by noises; he would run to the back door when
\n the front door opened. Sensed thunderstorms three or four hours before they
\n arrived. And we joked about him, his clumsiness, his lack of grace, his surprisingly
\n long life. <\/p>\n

So to give him up the other day has convened a strange vacancy.
\n No nudged trips to the grass. No slow-paced click-click of his long toenails
\n on the hardwoods. And since we’ll be leaving soon, too, his presence won’t linger
\n much longer than ours. Where he’s headed, some generous crib in Springfield,
\n Mo., there’ll be other dogs to socialize him (roll over!) and abundant spoilation
\n (good boy!) to help him forget and to spur a few more years of simple joy. Woe
\n but for the blessing of always-fading memories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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