Comments on: Company for Christmas: Three dog night

By: jo

jo — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 17:43:35 +0000

get those dogs off my sofa!!!
mother
p.s. and what’s an url? where do i get one?’

By: Marilyn Bailey

Marilyn Bailey — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 04:22:33 +0000

And you do know that dogs can talk at midnight on Christmas Eve, don’t you? I can’t wait to hear what they have to say!

By: Anne'n'Spencer

Anne'n'Spencer — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:24:05 +0000

Anxiously awaiting the arrival of the fourth house guest. My nominee for pooper is the small doggie, Darcy. She needs to let everybody know she’s there.

By: feefifoto

feefifoto — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 17:09:32 +0000

I’m not very good at math but I completely understood and concur with your calculations.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 15:19:39 +0000

This is so true… And the ice today was especially fun since the squirrels have decided to resurface!

By: Linda Nelson

Linda Nelson — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:59:20 +0000

While I agree with your thought process on this, I also believe it truly depends upon whether the dogs are all the same breed and/or come from like circumstances. It is not uncommon for us to have 20+ Chihuahuas together at adoptions, between our fosters, our own dogs brought for socialization and/or stabilization purposes and some we just love to have around to teach children how to interact with dogs and puppies…

We don’t rescue dogs bigger than 7-10 pounds and because we primarily pull off the kill lists here in the greater Los Angeles area, we predominantly do Chihuahua and Chi mixes… While the Chi might be more of a clannish dog breed than others, the biggest jump (in my mind) is from ‘no dogs’ to ‘one dog and/or a multi-dog’ household…

The only other factor I’ve noticed is how unruly dogs will become (even the best behaved one) when an intact dog arrives as a foster into my pack… I absolutely do my best to avoid this situation for inevitably an intact male is consistently stirring up trouble while an intact female immediately vies for the alpha status… I find this situation a greater upset ‘in the math’…

Maybe it is just the breed we work with so much… Dunno… I’ve seen people with one dog that shouldn’t have one, and others with multi-dog households where you could literally eat off their floors!

I thoroughly appreciated your posting and it certainly brought a smile to my face this morning! Glad I happened upon it!

By: bluhawkk

bluhawkk — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:58:21 +0000

I’m smiling 15.9 times more than usual.

Anxiously waiting for your 3rd guest to show.