I am NOT an animal lover...

OMG...I am so not an animal lover. I know you what you are thinking "Are you even human?", "What an awful thing to say!" or "Shame on you for not loving God's creatures!" I have heard it all... Well I have a story to tell today.

I am house sitting for a family that I know. They have 2 dogs and a cat (who up until a few days ago I thought was a girl). Well, I have learned they are all boys. I knew the dogs were, their names are Ben & Jerry. But the cat, all I had to go on was reading it's water bowl which I thought said "Julia" but apparently says "Julio."

Julio vs. Julia- what makes this funny is that on Sunday the cat ran outside, which there were strict instructions to make sure it didn't get outside. So, after trying to coax it in I began to tell this story "This is how cat's get pregnant! You don't want to have to explain you getting knocked up when your family gets home, do you?" Do other people have these kind of dumb conversations with animals? :)

Well, I had a weeks assignment of house sitting while they were away (I am being nice to help out my sister who could completely have her own side business of this). And it is not all that bad. You have to let the two dogs out to do their "business" a few times a day and make sure there is food and water. Now, the over and above is being affectionate which (probably to the utter horror of this family) I do not do much of. I just simply don't like animals. They stink (for the most part) and I am just not 100% comfortable around them.

So my week started out pretty well, except for the fact that the dogs did A LOT of barking the first two nights I was here. I could NOT figure out why. I got up the 2nd night 5 times to let them out, make sure they had food and water and I was just beside myself. So, I mentioned this to Mom on Tuesday morning at work who said "Remember, you have to bring them upstairs because the one has a hurt back." Ding, ding, ding (imagine ringing of a bell)...it was all becoming a little clear now. I think Katie (sister) did say something about this fact. And the thought is that the one dog was barking because it didn't want to leave the other by itself.

Well, against my will, I brought them both upstairs on Tuesday and they slept like freakin princesses. I had to wake them up...WAKE THEM UP...on Wed morning when it was time to get up. I think they may have slept better than me...:(

All this to bring you to this morning, normal routine occurred. I let them out and made a bowl of cereal. To my horror, I looked up and saw the pool had a number of ripples in it (not normal because NO ONE had been in it) and then a wet dog was running to the door. I could not believe it has fallen into the pool. This then required me to find a towel to dry the dumb dog off before I could put it in the cage because I was leaving for a football game. I take care of that and leave. Well, after a HOT football game I had to head home to let them out again. After a bit, I was getting ready to leave again and the dumb dog jumped the pool AGAIN. Are you FREAKING kidding me? I happened to be outside and it did not look like the dog was doing so well. So against my better judgement, I jumped in fully clothed to get the silly thing out of the pool. UGH! Not the way I wanted to spend my afternoon...spontaneously jumping into a pool fully clothed to get a dog out. Funny now...NOT so funny then!

Well, after doing a few things today, I just got home a bit ago. It has been raining for about 5 hours STRAIGHT so there is water everywhere. I was taking out the trash, when I walking back inside I slipped & fell right into a split in the garage. Let's just say...my body is in pain and my side hurts from laughing so hard. You really just can't write this stuff up...so I thought I would share it.

It's my life...:)