Boone the rebel

I think Boone is entering the rebellious teenager phase. Good lord, the dog drove me up the wall yesterday at work. I don't know what his issue was, maybe he was just tired, or having an off day but I wanted to throttle him!

The work day started off well enough he approached one customer on his own, came over with some coaxing by mean for a couple more and even took a treat out of one woman's hand which is a huge step for him. He got told off by a German Shepherd, freaked him out a little but not overly so. He spent most of the day on his bed behind the counter while I attempted to conquer the canned food wall (I never want to touch another can again by the way). Later in the evening though he not only growled at every customer that came in he'd also bark and not his pathetic little excuse of a bark a full, I mean business bark that sounded like it came from a dog twice his size. It ticked me off and confused me, he'd been so good that morning. Maybe I pushed him too far to greet customers?

Co worker comes in with her 8 week old Mini Dachshund, Dante. Cute little guy and I found it insanely amusing to watch him scruffy around on the floor. Boone seemed rather intrigued by the little guy, not quite sure at first but quickly seemed to change his tune and happily followed the little guy around the store and try to play with him which of course didn't go well as Boone likes to use his front paws and "step" on smaller dogs well playing with them, which is fine he's not a big dog himself but Dante is a wee little man and I didn't want Boone to hurt him in his excitement. For whatever reason Boone took a sudden wariness to my co worker. Any time she spoke, or played with Dante he growled and took off to his bed, at one point started barking at her and then pissed all over the floor as he ran to his bed and pissed on his bed. Brat. At that point I'd had enough of him. I shut him in the grooming room, tossed his bed in the washer and left him there for a bit. When I went back there to let him out he acted as if I'd beaten him and scrambled around the grooming tables away from me while pissing. So once again I left him in the back, let him work out whatever his problem was. An hour before I left I went back and tried again and he came out willingly enough. I cleaned up his pee in the back and he seemed back to his normal self again.

He had a good run through the park before getting in the car, found something to chase I'm assuming a squirrel and you'd never know he'd been such a grumpy little elf. He spent the whole car ride home in the back seat which he hasn't done since late September/early October. Another big step for him as the front seat was always a no no, that was Drifter's seat and if Drifter ever saw him in that seat Boone got a good telling to. But around this time he started making short visits to the front seat while I drove and now sits there as if its been his seat all along so it was odd he spent the whole trip in the back seat last night. Once home he went straight to his crate and that was that.

I hope to high heaven this was just a one day bad mood.