Home Alone

I think everyone, especially as a teenager, has done something they shouldn't while home alone. Whether it's as big as throwing a party, as silly as dancing around while blasting music through the house, or as simple as eating the forbidden cookie dough in the fridge. Having a dog that stays inside all day, I occasionally wonder what he does while we're gone. As my brother and I are still in school, and my parents go to work most every weekday, my dog is home by himself quite often for several hours at a time. My family has a pretty good idea of what he does: sleeps. Between eating, begging for food, and greeting us on our returns home, my dog mostly sleeps all day. I can't blame him; he's old and lazy.

Before he became old and lazy, around 2003.

I know that he sleeps on the extra mattress in my bedroom (which will be gone soon when I get new furniture) and throughout the floors of my house. But about a week ago, I realized that the couch in our entertainment room was constantly covered in Cosmo's dog hair. I started to suspect that Cosmo was getting up onto the couch when no one was around to see. When I had a friend sleepover at my house this last week, we slept on the couch. And my dog, knowing that I let things slide, jumped up on the couch with us.

The picture my brother took of Cosmo a few days ago. I apologize for the poor quality.

This afternoon, as I came home from school, he was nonchalantly laying on the couch in our living room when he embarrassingly realized I had walked through the front door. Having one of his senior moments and not hearing me come to the front door, he quickly hopped off of the couch and welcomed me home as if I hadn't seen anything. Who does he think he is? I was surprised but also laughing at him. My dad had the same response when I texted him about it and he texted back saying, "Ha. Stupid dog." As I was just telling my brother, he showed me a picture he took of Cosmo the other day doing the same thing laying on the couch.

The couch in the background is the same couch he sleeps on today. This picture was taken around 2004, right about when I had ambitions to be a hair stylist.

I would've gotten mad at him, but he's pretty cute, and I don't blame him for being a little bit of a rebel while home alone. He's been having a hard time with other things around the house such as walking on the slick wood floors in the kitchen and coming up the "haunted" stairs, as my family calls them, in the backyard. So I decided to let it slide this time . . . and I'll probably do the same in the future haha.

Puppy Cosmo, around 2002 while boating at a lake. How could someone be mad at a face like this?

Want to know what your dog may or may not do while you're gone all day? Instead of installing a creepy camera system throughout your home, check out this article- I'm sure your dog does one or two of these things.