Pet Sitter at your service

For one week and one week only I have agreed to be a downtown dog owner. I'm finding it very difficult to determine dog/child etiquette. I encountered a family and the Dad was talking to Bella so I gave her some slack to greet them and the Mom lunged for the child and covered her face to protect her from my canine friend. Geez.

The other problem I have encountered is transportation. She won't jump into the back end of my jeep so I have to lift her in. This would be fine if I had a normal vehicle without various imperfections. For example, my gas tank cover is attached with electrical tape. Isn't everybody's? Also, the shocks in my back end are shot so the door just falls down within seconds. My solution so this problem was to hold the back end open with my skull while attempting to lift the dog into the back end. It was quite a sight to see! I finally began to drive away and Bella leaps forward towards me in the driver's seat. This seemed dangerous so i did what I expected her owner would do in order to train her not to....stop every single time she did it. I didn't keep track of exactly how many times I stopped on the side of the road, opened the back end with my head and lifted a dog into my car. Whew, what a job.