Manpet and I have had animals pretty much since the moment we moved in together (15yrs ago…fark, I am old).

Mostly cats, I have a bit of an obsession. My Dad HATED cats with a passion when I was a kid..so I was never allowed to have one. So I’m just making up for lost time.

We added a dog a few years in, though we didn’t have much luck early on until Sasha came along. We nearly lost her too, but she was tough. She ended up spending 11yrs with us ’til we had to put her to sleep 12mths ago.

We were both brought up with… dogs were dogs, outside…doing dog stuff. You certainly wouldn’t have them in your house, on the lounge or…gawd forbid…in your bed! But after losing Sasha I realised we had missed out on so much. I was determined not to make that mistake again, and next dog that came along we would be adopting the dogs are just like cats method.

So how is that working out?

For the most part, pretty damn good. I have been really surprised by how much we have bonded with them, which we have never had with other dogs. Very cat like with napping and snuggles etc. With the added bonus of being able to take tem out places, tried that with the cats…they were never keen.

But one thing the cats don’t do, that dogs are masters at……destruction!

They are coming up to their first birthdays, so we’re still having teenage puppy issues x2

Winter came super early in Sydney, and it’s breaks my heart to have to shove them out in the cold every morning. Have tried jumpers, they just shred them off each other. The puppies spend most of their time inside when we are home. So it’s only about 6hrs during the day they are outside alone.

Having eaten 3 outside beds and the rip proof outside beanbag (you’d think I would have learnt my lesson after that one) They have been left sleeping on some shredded blankets.

We were getting rid of an old lounge. I thought great, we can put it out there for them to sleep on! Jake did try to tell me it was a bad idea. But pffft I refused to listen, they will realise it’s a warm comfy place to sleep…they won’t do anything to it?!

I go outside to see if they’d been enjoying their new comfy bed and…oh sweet babeh jeebus..WTF have you done!!

6 short hour is all it took.

And, because everyone loves an animated gif. Here is Sookie demonstrating what she did to the lounge. Because of course Eric is too small, his cute little mouth could not cause such destruction (shhh I have deleted the pictures of him caught in the act)