Marley & Me

I watched this movie. I was good....up to a point. As I watched this flick, I could not help but relate to some of the things this pooch did. I have a Lab/Aussie Shepard mix. He is more Lab than anything though. Just bigger than a typical Lab.

This movie was fun to watch. I could understand alot of what went on. My girl and me almost broke up over Max (our dog) so this movie kind of hit home with me.

The way Marley would screw up, and just look up into his owners eyes, the way dogs do. You can see the unconditional love there. You just can't scold them. I went through the same thing with my dog, but, I scolded, yelled, etc....it worked. Now, my dog is no angel, he is pretty well behaved, he sometimes has an incident.

Like the time I was watching TV and having a pizza. Now, Max knows he is not alowed on the table. I got up to refill my soda, I had already eaten 2 slices. I came back and there were only 2 slices left. My dam dog ate my pizza. I was pissed. I yelled, screamed, chased him around the apt. Scared the living shit out him actually, and it worked. He has not been on table since. Looking back, I can't really blame him. That was a very big temptation for him, he could not resist.

Now, when Max screws up, he bows his head and stares at the floor. I don't have to yell at him or anything. Just looking at him does the trick, he knows he did something bad. He's a good dog. He does have his little transgressions every now and then but that is to be expected, we never formally trained him. It was just the lady an myself, we never sent him to obedience school or anything. I think we did a pretty good job.

One thing we did not do was train him to be a guard dog. He just turned out that way. Kinda like the junkyard dogs you always hear about, but never see in real life. If you have never heard of these kinds of dogs, I will explain. See, junkyards are huge and usually surrounded by a fence. Before video and all these electronic alarms and such, owners of these junkyards would close the gates at night and let these dogs roam. These dogs are very territorial. If a stranger would happen to enter the property, these dogs would attack, period, and would not stop. My dog is like that in his territory (the house). I have tested this on several occasions. My dog is not a lovable friendly dog, he is very viscious, and that I think is a good thing. If we have company or somebody over we put him in a bedroom or somewhere. Sure, he goes nuts barking, but that's it. I work mids and we live in the country. I feel better at work knowing that nobody will go into my house for any reason without my ladies permission. The dog would tear them apart. My lady feels alot safer out there at night also. If somebody were to try and break into the house and rob us, he better try when we are at home, to control the dog, if not the guy would get mauled.

The big problem I had with Marley and Me was the ending. The ending SUCKED!!!!! I do understand no dog lives forever, but , shit.... why the fuck did the asshole make us sit through Marley's death?!!! Fuck that!!! I felt like shit afterwards. Glad I did'nt watch it with the lady, she would have thought I was a big pussy after seeing my reaction to the end of that flick.

I went out and got my dog an ice cream cone. I love my dog.