Happy Birthday Mackenzie
Mackenzie will be 1 next week 
I can't remember where I got this but my husband and I read it every so often ... to laugh and to remind us how far she has come , how much joy and laughter she brings and why we haven't killed her 
You will come to a point, whether it’s at 12
weeks or 12 months-but certainly within the first 18 months of your bullies
life- were you will have a mental break down, you may cry yourself to sleep,
curl up into the fetal position and feel totally helpless and unsure of
yourself, you may even be certain you have the wrong breed of dog, you will lie
in bed at night wondering what you’re going to do with this monster-you are
certain he/she is going to end up being the worst dog that ever was. Your look
into the future and see lawsuits, dog bites, stitches, a dog who will never know
anything, and forget basic obedience! You’ll have to walk him/ her with a muzzle
forever!
But when you come to that point, take a deep
breathe, relax and remember:
"THIS IS NORMAL”
his obsessive nipping, chewing and biting you, her
refusal to urinate anywhere but the rug, his chasing down the cat constantly,
her outbursts of frustration every time you tell her NO.
ITS ALL NORMAL.
You need to take it one day at a time, and don’t
worry about tomorrow.
Take each chewed up shoe, each nip, or bite, each
accident as it comes.
Every day for the first 18 months will feel like
it JUST happened, you’ll feel stuck, as if you’re doing it wrong, as if the pup
should of gotten it by now, as if your simply running around saying “no,no,no”
all day and night long.
That’s because for the most part-you will be! So
take each day and each moment in stride. Take deep breathes every time something
happens and just be consistent, and before you’ve even noticed, one day you will
look back and think “hey, little spuds hasn’t chewed on a single shoe is
weeks!”
or “ Roxy hasn’t jumped up on little Jesse for 2
months now!”
or “remember jasmine used to cry all night
long?” and then, one day, you’ll look at your polite,
sweet and wonderful Bull Terrier, and wonder how they could have been so
naughty, so terrible and so down right awful you won’t even believe you ever
doubted them.”
)
I can't remember where I got this but my husband and I read it every so often ... to laugh and to remind us how far she has come , how much joy and laughter she brings and why we haven't killed her You will come to a point, whether it’s at 12
weeks or 12 months-but certainly within the first 18 months of your bullies
life- were you will have a mental break down, you may cry yourself to sleep,
curl up into the fetal position and feel totally helpless and unsure of
yourself, you may even be certain you have the wrong breed of dog, you will lie
in bed at night wondering what you’re going to do with this monster-you are
certain he/she is going to end up being the worst dog that ever was. Your look
into the future and see lawsuits, dog bites, stitches, a dog who will never know
anything, and forget basic obedience! You’ll have to walk him/ her with a muzzle
forever!
But when you come to that point, take a deep
breathe, relax and remember:
"THIS IS NORMAL”
his obsessive nipping, chewing and biting you, her
refusal to urinate anywhere but the rug, his chasing down the cat constantly,
her outbursts of frustration every time you tell her NO.
ITS ALL NORMAL.
You need to take it one day at a time, and don’t
worry about tomorrow.
Take each chewed up shoe, each nip, or bite, each
accident as it comes.
Every day for the first 18 months will feel like
it JUST happened, you’ll feel stuck, as if you’re doing it wrong, as if the pup
should of gotten it by now, as if your simply running around saying “no,no,no”
all day and night long.
That’s because for the most part-you will be! So
take each day and each moment in stride. Take deep breathes every time something
happens and just be consistent, and before you’ve even noticed, one day you will
look back and think “hey, little spuds hasn’t chewed on a single shoe is
weeks!”
or “ Roxy hasn’t jumped up on little Jesse for 2
months now!”
or “remember jasmine used to cry all night
long?” and then, one day, you’ll look at your polite,
sweet and wonderful Bull Terrier, and wonder how they could have been so
naughty, so terrible and so down right awful you won’t even believe you ever
doubted them.”
) 
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