Has your house gone to the dogs?

[Guest girliejr]

26. Your "sun room" which used to be cute and a nice breakfast nook is now the dog's room and full of toys and creates!

[MikeC]

28. When you get home from work and kiss your dogs hello first!

Mike

[Logansmom]

29. when you start comparing potty training stories with the neighbors at a cocktail party

[Kathryn]

30. When every upholstered chair and couch is covered with an extra blanket or sheet to keep off the dog hair -- and you tell your guests, "Don't sit there. That's the dog's chair..."

[Kathryn]

31. And, you reach into your blazer pockets for a pencil or pen during a meeting -- and pull out plastic poop bags....

[Scully'sMom]

32. You greet the dogs by name, but forget the peoples' name.

[savannahsmom35]

Scully's Mom - I am # 24 as well

33. When you find yourself signing your dogs name(s) on greeting cards you send out.

[Cairns2]

34. You and your spouse send each other Mommy/Daddy cards for Xmas, birthdays, Mother's/Father's Day from the pets.

[MikeC]

35. You mull over pet friendly birthday cake recipes for your dog's birthday, and invite the neighbors dogs over for the party complete with hats and balloons!

Mike

[Cairns2]

Mike, I thought I was the only one who had pet birthday parties!

Ok, let me confess how I spent most of the day today.

36. When you spend half the day on the internet looking for your pet's birthday gift.

Bought Emma a $35 rhinestone collar this morning. She'll be 2 on the 21st and we are having a party - 7 Cairns are coming! God help me!

[savannahsmom35]

Guilty of # 34.....

37. When you spend at least an hour a day on the Cairn talk forum chatting about your pup(s). (Guilty again...)

[hallswel]

Here they are so far

YOU KNOW THAT YOUR HOUSE HAS GONE TO THE DOGS

[MikeC]

39. When everything that you have read in this thread makes complete sense and is considered perfectly normal behavior.

Mike

[Cairns2]

Thank you, Hallswel! Great idea to start this thread.

If I may add to your ending:

No matter how much trouble our dogs cause, how much money they cost us, how much they make us worry, life is much better with them and we'd be very lonely without them.

[MikeC]

HERE HERE!!

Mike

[sanford]

A guest comes into your home and says, "Hmmm ... it smells like dog in here" ... And you realize that you don't smell anything at all!

[Brigette]

When you buy a king size bed so that your husband can have room to sleep in bed with you again after the dogs have kicked him out ( I had to choose between them, and I knew Matt would be more understanding than my boys)

When while building a house, the first thing you tell your architect is that you must have a kennel room with a doggie door.

[TheScotts]

16. When you order dirt-colored slipcovers for your formerly white sofa and chair!

[Marmielin]

You spend your lunch hour reading the Cairn Forum instead of shopping!

I've lost count - add mine to the end!