Let me preface this blog by saying that I love my animals...all freaking four of them :) However, they are driving me up the WALL!! To go through the laundry list of nonsense that I have to deal with on a daily basis would take forever, but here are some of the highlights from just this past week...
- Molly and Rae Ann were over for dinner and we were eating in the dining room. We kept watching the dogs go up and down the stairs...clue to something being up...so I dash upstairs to find poop in the hallway and pee all over the shower curtain!!! WHAT??? They're seven and five!! They are outside all the time!!
- I brought animal crackers to the beach in a zip lock bag...you know where this is going...Kiera didn't eat them all, so in the beach bag they stayed. I come home from a walk to find the beach bag torn apart, the zip lock bag in shreds, and no animal crackers. Sigh.
- Yesterday I'm playing with Kiera in the living room and the dogs are futzing in the kitchen. All of a sudden I hear a rustling sound like they have paper...but that's not the case, Luke has THREE diapers that he managed to fish out of the garbage. I can't win!
- Finally, I don't have a whole lot of time or energy to vacuum, vacuum, vacuum...but last night I vacuumed for over a half an hour getting every last piece of animal annoyance that I can off the carpet in the living room...what do I come home to today you ask?? Poop on the carpet...not only do they enjoy pooping during the day (after I've let them out twice before I go to work in the morning) but they DIG in it...Nice, right??
Maybe some of those things are my fault...like leaving the cookies in the bag and the bag in reach of the pugs...but the others?? What else can I do??
And don't get me started on the cats! Sera hides out in the basement because she hates the dogs...I wonder why...and if we let her up at night, she scratches up the carpet so badly that we can't get it back to normal. This with every scratching post I can find showered with cat nip which she loves...Leia, well Leia, she's a pee-er...and if you've ever smelled cat pee, you wouldn't forget it. We can forgive Leia just a smidge because she has very bad back legs and has since she was a kitten...but she's constantly peeing out of the litter box...and sometimes will just be lazy and go on the floor...it's overwhelmingly gross. Our downstairs bathroom in covered in wee-wee pads like we have a puppy or she'll pee all over the floor.
Honestly, I just can't take it anymore! I'm ready to lock them all in one cage and let them work it all out themselves. Who would have thought that I would have to deal with this crap with two cats who are nine, and pugs who are no longer puppies. It's so frustrating! It's funny too because if we had stuck to one cat and one dog it would have been Leia and Luke...the worst of the four of them. Sera, other than the scratching is a great cat and Bella is wonderful too...most of the time...so I would've been SOL anyway :)
And believe you me...they get attention! They're always with us, Luke right now is laying with me and my left arm is resting on his back as I type. They also still sleep with us...which I wish with everything in me that I never started. He was just so damn cute as a puppy. Urg.
On the upside...Kiera loves them. She kisses them constantly, laughs when they play, and is getting really good at giving them pets. I also enjoy petting them and watching them do silly pug things. I wish it could always be like that...
