Did I mention that we are crazy?
Us crazy Galentines. We have this "thing" that makes it impossible for us to live without 4 dogs in our home at all times. I don't know what it is. My friends warn me each time I entertain the idea of getting another one. "Just have a baby and be done with it!" some of them say. But the doggie bug and the baby bug are different. I thought a puppy would be much easier than a baby. I was wrong.
I have to have quiet and dark to sleep. It's just a fact. And I have to have sleep to function. LOTS of uninterrupted sleep. Well, we adopted Tess, a 6-monthish old yellow lab from Atlanta Lab Rescue the Monday before Thanksgiving. She is too too sweet. She is also too too cross-eyed which drives me a bit bonkers. But that's neither here nor there. The first night we had her we put her in her "box" (crate) to sleep. About 90 seconds later came the whines, cries, barks, etc. So we let her out (under the pretense that she would wake the children, really she was going to prevent me from sleeping!!) and she came in our room. She hopped right up onto the bed and slept there all night without moving. Oh, how sweet, right? Wrong.
So it's been about 2 and a half weeks of Tess sleeping on my feet. I'm over it. I guess I should interject that we also have a 14 year old Boston Terrier, Maggie, who sleeps (well, LIVES) on our futon in our sitting room. She's old and crotchety, and she's also deaf and half blind, so there's no kicking her out. I've tried. I move her ever so gently to the couch complete with her blanket and she is scratching and crying at our door 5 minutes later. So that's pointless. Maggie has a major snoring problem and I used to be able to just holler her name and she'd quit. But now she's deaf so I have to actually get up and shake her and get her to change positions at least 5 times a night. Add a big lab sleeping on your feet and it equals no sleep. UGH.
We also have 2 other Bostons, Mia and Olivia, who race and chase and trip me and crash into my shins while they're traveling approx. 30 miles an hour. Mia and Olivia are also scared of the rain. They won't go out to potty while it's raining. It's been raining for 2 days. They are peeing on my floor. Tess isn't potty trained. She is peeing on my floor. Maggie has doggie dementia and from about 4-7pm every night barks INCESSANTLY (as anyone who talks to me on the phone regularly knows) and.....pees on my floor.
So here's my final thought: Maybe I should have taken my friend's advice and just had more babies....
Here's Tess on the $50 dog bed she won't use
Here's 14-year old Maggie
Here's Mia, or "BFM" (Big Fat Mia) as she's better known...
Last but not least, Olivia. She causes the least amt. of problems I think.
