a dog owner . . . still

I am trying really hard today to like my dog today. I feel like I am out on walks with him at least three times a day. Today is Saturday and I am fighting to have some quiet time because the dog is walking around wining! Yesterday I left him out of his kennel while I had a meeting. It went a bit long but I had taken him to the dog park for 40 min before I left. Still when I got home he had cleared the coffee table eaten the fortune cookie I had left there from earlier in the week and then when he got all the papers off the table he proceeded to tear them all to little pieces. It looks like it snowed in my place. I don't mind him tearing up the paper because it seems if it weren't the paper it might be furniture.

I am working hard trying to figure out the spiritual lesson to be learned in a very active dog and a owner that just wants to veg. I will leave it for you to come up with, just please post it so I can benefit from the lesson too. Thanks