I'm a bad mommy ... a bad PET mommy, that is. Why you ask? Because I have thus far failed to mention them in this here blog! I have 3 dogs. Two we picked, one each from the Miami-Dade County Dog Pound and one from the Broward one, and one we inherited when we bought the farm. Their names are Buford (Beauford), Snoopy, and Smiley (Sonrisa - Smiley in Spanish - or Sonri, for short). Big Buf is a bassett hound, Pooty (as Ian used to call Snoopy when he couldn't say Snoopy - sweetheart!) is a beagle, and Sonri is a mix of pitbull and something else. They're all great and we love them all.

We also have a cat named Chomper or Chompi for short. We've had him since he was an itty bitty baby and he got his name because he bit Tod (and drew blood, may I add!) when Tod picked him up. He was stuck in our backyard fence and we kept hearing him meowing all night so Tod went out there at dawn and found him. Love at 1st bite, people! Tod LOVES that cat as does Ian and now Dylan, too. Both the babies have just hugged the poor kitty to pieces.

Me? It goes without saying. I've been a cat lover all my life and wacked my head many-a-times as a baby trying to get out from under the china hutch with the kitties we had who'd go under there to hide from me, I'm sure. I would refuse to let them go so that I could get out. I had scratches galore all the time to prove my undying love for those little suckers and the pictures of me putting them in my baby doll stroller, too. I had NO use for the dolls and would just throw them out the stroller! Kitties only please! :-)

As for dogs, we always had them growing up but I only came to love them once I met Tod. Now, they're all my babies and they all get along too, the cat and the dogs. It's a full-on happy family around here!