1 month with kirkham. kirkham is a dog.

kirkham stays with grace in davis. so i only see him on weekends.

-he's been a great dog, no complaints.

-grace lovesss kirkham. no no, you don't understand. grace lovesss kirkham. they love each other. kirkham is a little baby when grace has to leave him. he'll start to cry as soon as grace leaves

-he is super calm, very rarely barks unless a new person comes into the house for the first time.

-he loves to cuddle

-grace always says that he is "soooo smart". a typical conversation goes something like this

go- he's sooo smart!

gm- no way, he's probably just average

go- how can you say that.

gm- i'm not trying to hate, but he's most likely just average. he's probably just as smart as any other terrier

go- ugh

gm- everyone thinks that their dog is smarter then average, but EVERY dog CANNOT be smarter then average

go- you're an idiot

-when we take him out for walks/poop. we grab the collar and stand by the door. MOST times he runs up to the door and he sits, and we put the collar on, and we go. this one time, grace was cooking so i was going to take him out. i grab the collar, walk to the door and bend down to put the collar on, i say "kirkham, sit". and grace turns around and she says something like "do not tell him to sit, he already knows!" (LOLL). As if i were insulting his intelligence by telling him to sit. sooo funny. just this past week, we were ready to go outside, and kirkham would not sit, and grace didn't want to say "sit", so we stood there for about 3 minutes. i didn't say anything because i didn't want to be an asshole, but in my head i was screaming "loltoldyou LOLTOLDYOU"

-when we adopted him from the oakland animal shelter, his name was Checkers. we said no thanks, and it's been kirkham ever since. and last week, i half jokingly asked grace "do you think he knows his name". grace said of course. and then i yelled "BICYCLE!" at kirkham to see if he would respond like normal..

 for the rest of the day, sometimes i would yell "kirkham" and sometimes i would yell "bicycle". it was really funny, but i think you had to be there. we must have said something similar to this 50 times. "BICYCLE....see he looked....Kirkham....oh there...he looked....Kirkham....see he looked again...Bicycle!!! he didn't look"

poor kirkham, grace and i were joking after, he was probably thinking "i thought my name was kirkham, but now these humans are calling me bicycle???"

-you don't understand how much grace loves kirkham, it's funny, she will always defend him. when grace is around, kirkham can do NOwrong. 

=when kirkham had an accident in the house. grace will say something like "oh, that was my fault, i kept him in too long". 

=when kirkham spilled all of grace's coffee in the car, it was the "stupid leash's fault"

=when kirkham destroyed Grace's keropi stuffed animal, i said "o0o0o0o0, kirkham fucked up"..

and grace said something like "well, how is he supposed to differentiate his toys from my toys...i shouldn't have left it out"