I'm not supposed to be the only one who experiences Covid-19 as a really fucking absurd thing. Fi fan, how tired I'm of shit. Even though I prefer my own company over most others, I suffer a lot from the isolation. And I'm better at it than most. If I meet two people a week, I can be satisfied. But that's not the only thing I'm dissatisfied with.
Boyo and Mozart in the rest yard the other day.
I am also extremely dissatisfied with how socialization and environmental training have worked (uh, rather – not worked) Med Boyo. I've written about it before, but I'm feeling a bit whiny so I'm writing about it again. I had such plans for him. We would go on adventures and he would become a well-socialized and environment-trained dog. We would go down to town, we would head off to other places around, we would say and we would so – and none of it has turned out as I thought.
And so thinks I; wonder if that's why he's so easily distracted. Because we haven't had enough environmental training. And then I get a bad conscience and feel like the world's worst math. But then; what the hell do you do when you avoid taking the bus as much as possible because there are far too many people? Covid-19 kicked in just a couple of weeks (I think) after I brought Boyo home, and he was far too small to go far. In addition, he grew so quickly that it didn't take very long before it was unreasonable to carry him in a carrier on longer walks.
So it happened not many adventures outside our immediate area.
And so it is it still, a year later. I'm still extremely skeptical about taking the bus unless I absolutely have to, and it is extremely rare that I have to go somewhere. And we walk the same walking path all the time, day in and day out. I try to vary the days so we don't go exactly the same all the time, but it will be the same in any case. Hela, all the time. Plus I have problems with my feet which means I need to think a little extra carefully about how and where we go so that it's not a long way home if I need to take off my shoes and rest.
I wish I had car it would have been easier. But now it's been a couple of years since I had a car. I put it off a couple of months before I lost Ella. With a car, it is much easier to get somewhere, regardless of whether you have a puppy or an old dog. I like being able to go away to other places with my dog. Discover new environments, new scents (more for the dog than for me), see little else than what we see constantly and constantly here at home.
For example, want I take Boyo with me and walk a bit along the utility path. I only know one place where you go, and it is quite possible to take the bus there. But it takes a long time, it's circumstantial and damn, and it will also be expensive (bus tickets are ridiculously expensive in Västerås) because one ticket is not enough for the journey there, a walk and the journey home.
Overall I feel me quite mad and grumpy right now. I'm a loner, I enjoy myself very much – but I would have liked it differently for Boyo. It bothers me enormously to feel so limited. And as it stands right now, I won't be able to get a car for a while, smallest.
BLAH!
The best with it is, however, that man sheep be grumpy and grumpy during the pissy isolation due to nasty covid-19. Man sheep actually it. I at least get it, for myself. So you have to accept that this is a post full of vomit on misery.
In addition, Boyo has gutter shit again. I doubt it's permanent, and probably it is due to hormones. But still. Thankfully, we've escaped it indoors – but still.
buying.