I've been expelled!

My first day at doggie day care and they expelled me. Me! A proud West Highland Terrier.

Why? I know you are asking why. Because I got a bit carried away playing with the other dogs.

I arrived at 7am which was a bit early because usually I’d be stretched out on the bed but I am never one to give up the opportunity for a car ride so I jumped in the car and off we went.

There were two snappy little ginger fluff balls already waiting at the door when we arrived. I didn’t like them. Josie the Westie arrived and we sniffed and did a bit of a growl.

Then the door opened and in I went. I didn’t know it was doggie day care but a very nice lady took me away and suddenly I was in a big room with bright coloured tunnels and balls of all sizes. I was confused because I was there all by myself until snappy fluff balls and Josie came in. And then there were…. 55 more dogs. I was a bit surprised. I have never been in a room with 58 dogs. I didn’t know which way to run or who to play with first so I sat and watched them and picked out the dogs I liked.

After a while, I thought, I can’t just sit and watch, I could have some fun and play with them all. So I ran from one to the next to the next of the dogs I liked the look of. I ran faster and faster and played harder and harder and then suddenly ….

I was barking …. then snapping …. then fighting.

I don’t know what happened. I just wanted to play but I got carried away. It was like I wanted everyone to be tumbling and rolling and frolicking with me but they didn’t want to and I got angry. And I couldn’t stop.

I was so angry with them because they didn’t understand that I am a proud West Highland Terrier with an impeccable pedigree and it should be a privilege to play with me.

Next thing, the nice lady took me away from all the other dogs and I was in a smaller room and mum was standing on the other side of the half door. She took my lead and we went back to the car.

“I can’t believe you have been expelled on your first day,” she said. I didn’t know what expelled meant until I heard her talking on the phone to Milou’s mum and she said doggie day care expelled me and I wasn’t to come back for at least six months until I had learned to behave with other dogs.

And then she was talking to someone else on the phone and said I still had lots of testosterone in me because I had only had the snip three weeks ago and that was why I was so bolshy. I don’t understand all that. Three weeks ago was when I went to the vet and came home with a plastic cone around my head and I didn’t know why. I do know it was bloody hard to eat from my food bowl and she had to put the bowl of top of a box so I could eat. And it was itchy between my back legs.

I wish she would explain these things to me. I am a dog, but I am the most intelligent dog in the world so I do understand complex concepts.

Can you imagine being in a room with 58 dogs? They were all my size or even smaller but it was overwhelming and I was excited and panicking at the same time.

I know I behaved badly because she called me Lochinvar.

So for the rest of the day I stayed put in my round bed. I didn’t want to push my luck with more bad behaviour.