Taubensee, Emilyâs First Dog
Mom and Dad gave me money for my birthday, which was almost two weeks ago. The present I bought with that money arrived today: a Bissell SpotBot Pet carpet and upholstery cleaning machine.
How pitiful is it that I am excited about this?
 I had one of these SpotBots with my first dog.
Taubensee was a great dog, but sometimes prone to eating things he shouldnât. Like an entire batch of homemade pumpkin chocolate chip cookies that Iâd left on the counter to cool.
(SIDE NOTE: After cleaning up the cookie barf that day some 11 years ago, IÂ still canât stand the sight or smell of pumpkin chip cookies.)
Anyway, I loved my dog AND this machine. But then my beloved dog died. And then a few weeks later my husband and I moved to Urbana from Indianapolis. So the SpotBot was sold in a different sort of purgeâthe one I dubbed The Great Purgeâ˘. It took place when my beloved dog died and then we move into temporary housing that didnât allow pets. And then our âtemporaryâ housing turned into OMG-how-are-we-still-in-this-tiny-apartment-two-years-later housing.
You know how some women of a certain age get kid crazy? Well, in the two years I lived without a dog, I got pet crazy. All I could talk about how was how I wanted a puppy and kitty and I wanted them to be BFFs.
In 2015, on the day we moved into our very own house and out of that one-bedroom apartment, we signed adoption papers at the Champaign County Humane Society. We have a puppy and a kitty and they are BFFs.
Both of these critters are pukers, but especially Boomer the lab mix. He pukes when he gets too excited, he pukes when he eats ice cubes, he pukes after a long day at the dog park, he pukes in the car on the way back from my check ups at Siteman Cancer Center in St. Louis, and he pukes because thatâs just what labs doâpuke.
He pukes more than me on chemo. Thatâs something.
So this little machine has been on my wishlist for a while now, because you just put the thing over the messy spot after youâve cleaned the debris, push a button, and walk away while it scrubs and sanitizes and deodorizes and whatnot. Its little wand attachment works on upholstery too, so the whole carâs getting a shampoo.
Sorry if Iâm getting commercial-y, but Iâm geeked. Happy birthday to me.
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