1) Spending time to shop and cook meat, pumpkin or sweet potatoes for our dogs, and end up eating a peanut butter sandwich or instant noodles because we are too tired to cook for ourselves!
2) Leaving early from a dinner party because we need to bring our dogs out to potty.
Mum’s out! Movie night!
3) 90% of our phone pictures are of our dog and their friends. It takes time to scroll through to find a picture of our (human) family when someone asks to see one!
Phone full of dog
4) Spending hundreds of dollars on them at the vet because their eyes are red doesn’t hurt as much as paying our GP $60 because we’ve been throwing up for three days.
Am I sick?
5) Picking up poop, several times a day, everyday. Sometimes sifting through it to see what they’ve been getting into. (Most of us have even had to help pull out poop from our dog’s butt, especially when there are hair balls involved!) And sometimes picking up other dogs’ business as well, to be a good citizen.
Little Beau poop
6) Dog hair – it’s a part of life, deal with it. And sweeping or vacuuming several times a week is perfectly normal.
clean enough for you mom?
7) They seem to know when we are going away for a trip, whether you pack slowly over two weeks or bring out the suitcase nonchalantly the night before. Our dogs get ‘manja’ and clingy before we leave on a trip.
If I pretend to sleep, maybe mama will just take me with her
8) They are always (equally) happy to see us – whether we’ve been gone 5 minutes or 5 hours!
9) Saying no to lunch or a movie invitation because, to be honest, we’d rather spend time at home cuddling with our dogs.
10) You talk to your dog and find it perfectly normal.
The Furry Tales 