JESSE AND RUFUS (AGAIN!)

In an effort to get ready for the Eagles tonight and what will surely be a late night for me, I decided to sleep late this morning. The genius had taken the dogs (we are keeping Jesse this week) out for their early morning constitution and had fed them (isn’t he the dream husband?). Then he left for work about 5:30 and that’s when the two angels decided to have a major squabble.

I was still in bed trying to sleep when I heard Jesse beside my bed rooting around in a stack of books under my bedside table. I turned on the light and put her on the bed with me. Meanwhile, Rufus was on the foot of the bed finishing up his Iams bone. I assumed that Jesse had already eaten hers because she had nothing in her mouth when I put her on the bed.

When Rufus finished, he sauntered up to Jesse probably bent on a playful romp, in which case I have to kick them out of bed. But instead, Jesse snapped and growled at him in a rage. Rufus disappeared and Jesse jumped from the bed and went back to the books.

I gave up any hopes of sleeping and turned on the light again and looked under the books myself. Sure enough, there was Jesse’s bone. How in the world it got there I don’t know. I tried one more time – turned off the light went back to bed and I did doze off.

Then I awoke a little while later and realized that Rufus was nowhere around which is extremely unusual. He sticks to me like glue, day or night.

So I found him on the stairs just sitting there, obviously with his nose completely out of joint. I went down and got him and brought him back to bed with Jesse already there. He almost went berserk so I had to cuddle him up next to my face before he would calm down. Finally, we all slept again and it was 9:00 before we got up for good. They are now fine with each other and back to normal. Both of them are snoozing side by side in the living room as I write this.

I think I got a good night’s sleep, but just to make sure I’m ready, I’ll take an afternoon nap, as well.