Mike's Grins & Gripes
by Mike Levitt
LIFE WITH BABY - RUFF!

It’s cigars all around: we just got our first grandkid!! Spunky little bugger. And noisy? Always crying for attention. Pick me up. Put me down. Waa. Waa. WAA! Eats constantly. Eliminates no less often. But The Old Lady is ecstatic, so I guess Bailey was worth the thousand bucks. Yeah, that’s how much you have to pay today for a furry canine surrogate grandkid.

And like brand new grandparents taking Junior’s Junior out for an outing, taking a puppy in our rig has opened up a whole new world to us. How often do you stop to take care of puppy business? How much newspaper is enough? What in the rig is off-limits to a dog (for his sake and mine?) What happens when a 19,000-pound RV stops quickly but a 4-pound pup doesn’t?

Side trips – once as simple as jumping in the toad and going, now require calling ahead to find out...

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