I’ve spoken about Gus Gus before. He’s my cairn terrorist that suffers from an anxiety disorder of epic proportions. We’ve been working on it for some years now and it’s made all the more difficult because cairns are by nature, very stubborn and headstrong dogs.

Gus Gus is no exception to that rule. They are like cats in a dog suit most of the time which makes behaviour modification rather difficult. We’ve come a long way. A LOT of trial and error as different trainers…different philosophies were tried out to help him not go Full Metal Jacket on everything.

No, he’s definitely come a long way.

Right now, he’s sitting on the couch next to me. Today is a “needy” day. A day when he’ll spend a few hours shoved up against my leg and needing a bit of cuddles once in a while for reassurance. Just to make certain his world is doing okay. In a couple of hours, the mail trucks will come by and he’ll go ape-shit in trying to kill the noise but for right now, he’s just a grubby little boy dog that smells vaguely of wet leaves despite the fact he’d had a bath a couple of days ago.

Dogs are kind of like books… well writing them anyway. You never know what you’re going to get and sometimes, you have to fight with it to make it behave.

Whiskey and Wry is such a book. Pity I put Dude in Sinner’s Gin because honestly, all I need to do to make writing this would be a cairn terrorist in the middle of the plot. *laughs*

Book Title: Whiskey & Wry

Words Written: 55,000
Words Used: 5,410
Hours spent Writing and Editing: 118+
Number of Reboots: 5

Number of changes to Male Lead Love Interest’s name: 7
Number of changes to Male Lead Love Interest’s sanity: 2
Number of changes to Male Lead Love Interest’s employment: 2

Amount of times Writer has muttered at book to just fucking behave and go forward: Numerous
Amount of times Writer has told Old Man Dog to get out from under the computer desk: Infinite

Looks Cat gives me when I begin to mutter: Priceless and stinking of “You’re crazy”.

Die of the cute. Seriously.

Guess no matter what size the cat, it still wants to be in the Christmas Tree

I’ve tried being Merry and Joyful. You know…out of respect for all of you during this holiday season but I can’t do it any more.

THIS STILL KEEEEELS ME DED!