It is official. Mr. Sageofages and I are about to be declared and verified crazy.
Why?, you might ask. Well, let me illuminate....
I am privately freaking out here...it is good and bad...after my last
two weeks, I thought I could use some down time....LOL...fate thought
otherwise.
About 3 years ago (at the start of the Iraq *incursion, conflict, war, whateveryouwanttocallit), I registered with netpets.org, a foster pet program
for military service members. Essentially volunteers foster service
members pets while they are deployed in Iraq. Three years...nothing.
So what happens about two days before I leave for my Thanksgiving holiday. The organization notifies us that we have been tapped to foster the pets for a Iowa Guard member who has been activated. The service member has to set up an allotment for food and vet care, the dogs are microchipped and we get copies of her orders.
She brought her babies over two days ago. TWO large black labs. We will
be fostering them for about 15 months. I have TWO large dogs now...FOUR large dogs (>75 lbs each) is freaking me out. We have a good sized fenced yard. Poor woman, she cried when she left. The dogs are 9 years old and she has had them since they were 5 weeks old. Both are neutered, which is good because my golden retriever is not.
The dogs are IDENTICAL..except one has spots on his tongue and other does not. So I bought them two different color collars so I don't have to say "ok pant so I can see who you are".
Imagine the food we are going to go through for the next year. We go
through about 20 pounds of dry dog food a week now! So one 44 pound of dog food a week...(and what goes in, comes out eventuallly!!!!!)
SO FAR...everyone is doing well. There was some pack posturing by my golden with the lab that is the more dominant brother. The less dominant male and my spayed female german shepard were acting like "wow...new friends!".
I hope everyone settles into a routine so there isn't constant barking...today is much quieter than yesterday was.
This could be an adventure. Mr Sageofages is so patient ow...
I am
so grateful it didn't put him over the edge
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