Dogs.
I'm overrun with dogs. They are consuming my days, taking over my life.
About a month ago, our chihuahua Maddey was diagnosed with canine diabetes. She had been developing cataracts, losing weight, guzzling water daily, and peeing all over the house. It was awful. So now, we give her insulin shots twice daily. A dog, taking insulin shots. Crazy.
Then about two weeks ago, we began seeing a brown female pit bull hanging around, befriended by Dexter, our 3-legged dog that had adopted us a little over a year ago. I found myself running off this dog every day. I even got up one morning, and caught her in the outside doggie bed on the front porch, with him!
Then one early Friday morning, after we had let Dexter out, we heard barking, fighting, and pain-filled howling out back. I turned on the back flood light, and I saw a large black dog on top of Dexter, just biting him up mercilessly. I rushed outside, and that dog was gone in a flash. We saw him around the property several times daily over the weekend, then on Sunday morning, while the girls had let Maddey out to briefly pee, they came in to get their coats, and in an instant, Maddey was viciously attacked by the black dog, this time accompanied by the pit bull. The girls ran off the rogue dogs, and Maddey was bloodied and crippled, unable to walk the rest of the day. We took her & Dexter to the vet on Monday, getting Dexter a rabies shot as precaution, and Maddey was found to have been wounded in her lower back, resulting in nerve and back leg damage. She might never walk right again.
I was furious. We spent the next week guarding our three dogs every time we took them out, under seige in our own yard, and I kept my handguns loaded and cocked, hoping for a chance to kill them both should I get a good shot at them. They stayed elusive, showing up and then disappearing before I could get to them. Turns out, neighbors down the street had seen the mongrels themselves, one even saying they had killed two of his chickens.
Animal Control could not catch them, but several of us were determined we would eventually get them. Finally, this past Sunday, I heard a fusillade of small arms fire, coming from down the street. We have not seen the dogs, either one, since. I hope someone killed these dangerous dogs- after what the black one had done to my dogs, I just wish it could have been me. That sounds bad, I know. I just wanted to avenge Maddey.
Yesterday, we got another surprise. Kelsey and her boyfriend bought a 9-week old teacup Yorkie, for their 2-year anniversary. That's the last thing we needed, was another dog! We told Kelsey, "This is your dog. We are not taking care of another dog. She is solely your responsibility and expense." And now Ansley wants one....
Like I said, I'm overrun with dogs. God certainly made them to be "man's best friend", I just don't need any more 4-legged, furry friends!