A Quarantined Family in the Eyes of Max

Things have been really weird around my house. When my humans aren't home, I am usually outside, but now, I mostly sleep in my favorite bed that one of my humans made. When I am awake, I watch everything. The humans don't even know that I watch them. Well, they kind of do. One of the humans, a female human, said one day, "Max is sort of in a 'fly on the wall' situation. Even though you can't see the flies, they can see everything. That is what Max does. You don't even realize it but he's watching us."

Ever since this COVID-19 thing happened, my humans have been acting strange. They stay at home all the time, and when they do leave, they come back home and wash their hands like they might get some kind of virus. They take me on walks more often and my favorite human, Savannah, always gets mad when I have to go relieve myself on the sidewalk or bushes - I think the humans think it's some kind of punishment. When I'm lying in my bed and the humans think I'm asleep, I can see weird things. They spend more time outside. They go on walks; they play games outside; they take me outside to go on walks with them. The way they just started doing things with me, caught me by surprise, but after a couple days it almost seemed normal. It made me feel good inside and happy.

One of the games I watch them play outside, they call Ladder Ball. They hold a set of balls which has one string connecting the two balls together. They throw the balls onto two short ladders. It looks like to me that they will do anything to keep busy. The taller human - I think the little humans called her mom - put some tape on the brick wall outside and the little humans drew with this chalk thing. They made a picture of a bunch of shapes and used what I assume were different "colors." Like all dogs, I'm color blind, which means I can only see black and white. The humans make pictures out of little pieces of cardboard they call "puzzle pieces." They must have made a hundred of those magical pictures. My favorite human was building this one:

Also they watch movies almost every night! They watched movies called Ghostbusters; they watched Groundhog Day; they watched Sister Act, and they're in the middle of Sister Act 2. They also just remodeled my whole backyard!

You never know what's going to happen next in my house. I'm sure that your house is just as crazy. Just remember, I am always here to help you through the weirdness.