Exodus/Exo-dog!

Naturally, I have the usual gaggle of dogs in my home- and playing host to these privileged canines is my job. My poor kids, wincing every time I yell, "KNOCK IT OFF", "QUIET!", or my favorite, "CHHTT! NO BARKING!"- it's a miracle my kids aren't completely aversive to dogs altogether. By the way- "Exo" in Greek means "out"....

I tell the husbear, "You know what's happening here don't you?- We are slowly but surely turning these kids into future 'cat people'".....G & P will either end up like one of those crazy people with 37 cats, or no animals at all. G claims that when he grows up he is going to have a toy Poodle like Cha Cha (one of my regulars), among the other small pets he is counting down to. I told him that when he is 7 we can get a mouse for him- he said that he will name him Jerry like the mouse I used to have. As for Cha Cha, since he is here so frequently he's just like our own dog- well, let me remark by adding- just not crazy like the psycho-dog-extraordinaire Sunny is. I figure I have a year and a half before we begin negotiations on the rodent factor.

Personally, I love rodents of all sorts, but I will not get into the breeding factor- as transpired in my childhood. As we witnessed the equation is such:

2 hamsters= 18....don't want to go there. One happy little male mouse is just fine with me, but it ends there. We already are bombarded with 3 fish tanks, 2 dogs (one psycho, one at death's door), and any number between 2-4 dogs on average per week staying with us. OH YEAH, forgot to mention snail # 3 which not only survived his/her predecessors, but reproduced to boot! We are now the proud cartakers of 50-odd baby snails-albeit cute-are too numerous to count at this juncture. Lets not forget the orange fish which are on batch #4 of some dozen or so babies- G's tank is the fertile delta of fish-land, or as we like to refer to the Ikea way of saying things: SnA-LAnd- hence all the snails.

Tonight is the exodus of all the dogs here- but one- he goes home next Seeeaturday. The fluctuating guest list since the 12th is as follows:

Kelly, Lucy, Yoda, Schultz, Milo, Payton, Bocce, and Vika. Kelly and Lucy came in on the 12th pm, Yoda went home on the 14th after one week of vacationing with us. Schultz was in for day care on Wednesday, Kelly went home Friday- Milo came Thursday pm, then Payton, Bocce, and Vika came Friday pm. SO, tonight everyone with the exception of Milo goes home- whew! I don't know how much more I can take- not any really. I am usually not this overbooked- but I did a friend and a cousin a favor by taking their dogs for the weekend. I can't wait until I can get away with no kids, no dogs, no husbear- just a couple of ragged mutha's ready to get their party on! TIKI BAR-STYLE-HEEEEE-HAWWWW!
EZ