You may recall my shopping trip a few weeks ago with mom and dad to pick out a new dishwasher for my kitchen. Well, fast forward to this past weekend and my dish washing replacement finally arrived!
According to mom and dad this is the year of the new kitchen……which by my best guess will take probably about a year to complete at the pace my parents go! But who’s rushing. And since the dishwasher has been leaking all over the floor I guess it was the very first thing to get the big boot.
While mom and dad seemed excited to have a new appliance (the first one ever!) I on the other hand found myself sulking that it was here.
Not only did it come with a whole new set of rules for me (no more standing on the dishwasher door to lick plates to name a few), but it didn’t even smell like anything great, like cookies, bacon, or peanut butter!
Dad got right to work installing the new dishwasher, while I looked on with distain.
The only real fun thing I can say about the new appliance is that the packaging made for a little entertainment. Although it would of been more fun if mom had let me shred it to bits!
Before my new dishwasher was completely installed I tried my hardest one last time to convince mom and dad that the only thing they needed for clean plates was me! Trust me, I can do the job better than any fancy dishwasher.
But alas, the thing got installed anyway. Sigh. I guess you win some and you lose some. 
Ammo, give it a few weeks and the dishwasher won’t be new anymore and you will be able to stand on the door and lick the plates. I couldn’t keep my dachshund off the door if I tried. Tell your mom and dad it’s a dachshund’s duty and nature to lick the plates. Than let the dishwasher do it’s thing. Just give those sad doxies eyes and they will give in.
Hey Ammo – I bet your mom will still let you lick the plates. She’ll just need to put them on the floor so you won’t climb on the new dishwasher. Look at it this way – less time mopping the wet floor due to the old, leaky dishwasher means more time for fun adventures!
Ammo, your new dishwasher looks very nice, but that doesn’t have to be the end of your pre-washing job, I put our plates on the floor, I have only 2 dish-pre-washers now, since Goldie, the Jack Russell crossed the rainbow bridge, but they are doing a great job. Besides, the door of the dishwasher does not stay open long enough for them to do a good job anyway, on the floor they don’t stop until the plate sparkles so much, if they weren’t on the floor I would think they are fresh out of the cabinet!!! That way the dishwasher doesn’t have to work third and it will last longer, so mum and dad will save money, also on soap, because they won’t have to put all that soap in it. Pleas pass that on to mum and dad, I bet they didn’t know all of the advantages of putting plates on the floor!!!!