Wheeeeee Doggies!!

So, "How does one come to acquire so many dogs?" I am often asked.  I figure that this is their way of saying ,"Woman, have you lost your freakin' mind!!!"  It  actually isn't easy to acquire 12 dogs, nor is it easy to feed them, especially when most of them weigh over 65 pounds!  75% of the aquisition was, of course, the little sweetie's doing.  I wanted 2 dogs, remember?  It mostly happened after the little sweetie got her drivers license.   Our lovely dogs are, a chihuahua,a bijon, a very bad cockerpoo, a large and very dopey Irish Setter, a Chow, a very smart and sweet Australian shepherd, a Great Pyranees ( I actually purchased him!) very bad black lab puppy that someone dumped on our farm, and 2 pit bulls... oh and 2 puppies of one of the pit bulls.   Once little sweetie got her drivers license and I was no longer her chaffeure, the dogs started arriving. One by one.....or sometimes two by two.   Little Sweetie knows just how to work her Mama...  "Mama, look at this poor baby!  OMG, she was so pitiful!  I had to bring her home! "  mama screams and yells a while and then falls in love.  Remember my heart is bigger than my brain. However, Mama does have a limit, and by God, I have reached it!  The little sweetie is away at college I have to do all of this work by myself now.   Can be a tad stressful on the body and the pocketbook.   One thing that I have learned about Pit Bulls.  They really are misunderstood.  You certainly have to know how to deal with them.  Both of the Pit Bulls that she rescued are wonderful.  I have to admit that I spend an enormous amount of time with them though and this has helped.  The last one she brought home had been fought terribly and was just a mass of gashes, and blood.  She was starving as well.  She is the sweetest dog that we own now and definitely the smartest.  However, she is NOT allowed out with any other dogs or animals.  She was used to fight so I am not giving her a chance to ever do that again.  She is a perfect house dog and everyone wants her.  She is amazingly smart.  Thank God we have the most perfect animal sitter for the farm on earth!  She loves all of our animals and can't wait for her next time to come and care for them.  I never worry about them when she is here.  However, they do tend to find this time to get sick for some reason so she has often had to carry them to the veterinarian.  I always suggest finding yourself a good pet sitter or either never leave the farm!