Our SW didn't seem too fond of dogs so we gated our Jack Russell in the family room while we sat with our SW at the kitchen table. The SW's back was to the family room and all of a sudden our (usually well behaved) dog decided to climb our leather sofa and hang her paws and head over the half wall right behind the SW and start whiningand howling like a maniac. I thought I was going to die...I didn't want to yell at the dog because I thought she'd 'fail' us on the home study...so instead we tried to calmly reason with her to get down...I am sure we looked like complete fools...(I probably should have given her a time out for that!
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Thankfully, we were approved despite our terror terrier!