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I have a husband and four dogs. For a period of two years, we seemed to
get dogs at around six- to eight-month intervals, coinciding with my periodic
questions about babies (the human kind). But I guess hubby decided he wasn't
ready to be a daddy to humans, and instead helped me adopt the
wonderful doggie babies you will find on this site!
Are we insane to have FOUR dogs? NO! We are quite sane. We just love
dogs...To be honest, it was much more difficult having ONE dog, Duke, than it
was to have two or three or four. Duke was lonely during the day when we were at
work. When we came home he was quite demanding of our attention. Like a child,
if we didn't give him enough attention, he would go out of his way to do
something naughty, so that we would have to pay attention to him — negative
attention was better than no attention!
We only stopped at four dogs because we didn't want to spread our love too
thin — It is not difficult caring for four dogs, it was hard to give them all
equal amounts of love. We didn't think we had enough love left over for a fifth
one...LOL.
Here they are…in their order of appearance in
our lives.
 Duke's
Diary
| Rebel
| Samson | Rizzo
| Duchess
 This
is Rizzo, my 30th birthday present. She was the
most adorable puppy, always insisting that she could do what the big guys
were doing. We water our dogs from a bidet—yeah, we have one of those and
use it as a watering trough instead of for its intended purpose. At 8-weeks
old, she had to stand on her tippy-paws and hang onto the side of the bidet
in order to drink out of it. But drink out of it she did, since the big
guys did it!
Rizzo, now
 This
is Rizzo now, at 3 years of age (I'm dating myself :). She's quite the
ham, because, for some reason, I seem to have more pictures of her than
of my other babies.
The grass is always greener somewhere else for her. If we give each
of our babies a bone, she always drops hers and tries to get the other
dogs' bones, too. Once she actually put two 8-inch rawhide bones in her
mouth and strutted around for a while, refusing to let them go...until
she realized she couldn't chew on two bones at once!
If she were human, she would be considered a bad girl...She flirts shamelessly
with the boy dogs and terrorizes all the girl dogs.
 This
is Duchess, our English Mastiff, when she was
5-months old. She has the sweetest temperament and does not bark like most
dogs. She does a sing-songy-howly-woofing thing. There is no other sound
like it on Earth.
We love her dearly, even though she passes a lot of gas :-) as most
Mastiffs are wont to do. This is only distressing when she sleeps on the
bed with us because she likes her head to face our feet—which means her
smelly part is facing our heads!
She always looks serious, even when she's frolicking. We thought she
would be a couch potato dog, but apparently, no one told her that. She
runs around and plays like a Lab all day!
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