 If I lived alone I would be borderline pet hoarder!
Hello everyone,
I am new to the site and joined for assistance with some aggression issues among a couple of our dogs. I have 6 children, 22, 21, 19, 17, 16 & 16 (not twins) My husband and I combined our families to have 3 boys and 3 girls, we are the brady bunch sorta! My 22 year old and 19 year old have moved out and on with their lives. My 21 year old lives at home and is going to college. The other three are in high school; senior, junior, sophomore! In addition to my kids I have 6 cats. Diego we rescued from the apartment building in our small town when the owner threw him and his sister out of the third floor window out into the bitter winter. Unfortunately, Bebe his sister had to be humanely euthanized as she suffered some sort of brain trauma at the hands of her abandoning owners and could not be saved. Diablo, we rescued from a friend of my daughters whose father promised to drown however many kittens were left at the end of the day. Dante and Domingo, I found wandering around a mudhole in the parking lot where I worked, they were not old enough to be weaned and the vet was sure that Dante would die, but he is bigger than them all now. Dax and Peanut lost their mother to a vicious dog in our neighborhood and I just couldn't let them live outside even though their mother was a stray, I took it upon myself to feed her and provide her a place to live (our garage) because she wouldn't come indoors!! Then come my dogs, I have 5. Our oldest has been with us since 1995, he is Spunky and he is a dachshund mix. He is very old, has more gray than black these days, has trouble seeing and selective hearing! My dog is a rotweiler mix, Bosco. He is my oversized lap dog and my most "spoiled" child according to my kids. My daughter's dog is a border collie, Yoshi, he is extremely smart and absolutely her dog. Lastly we have 2 yellow labs, Gus and Harvey. We got them from someone who was giving them away in the hopes that Gus would live with my mom and be her companion since my father died. Unfortunately 3 months after we got him for her and Harvey for ourselves, she was diagnosed with terminal lung cancer and didn't feel it was fair to him to not be able to exercise him and play with him like he needed. So we took him back.
I have been an animal lover since little on and cannot imagine my life without my children or my precious animals. Each has its own individual personality and contributes their own quirk to our family. I don't understand people who say "it's just a dog", where else can you get such an unending source of unconditional love and companionship. I would not have made it through my parents deaths without Bosco, he didn't have to say a word, he was just always willing to walk in the middle of the night when the memories overwhelmed me and be my snuggle buddy when my husband's work required him to be gone. I wish everyone in my life thought I was as wonderful as my dog thinks I am and that they would greet me at the door smiling and full of kisses.
Thanks for letting me share, I look forward to chatting with you.
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