Biological Clock- I think not!

"When are you going to have kids?" "Your dogs are taking the place of children!" "You treat your dogs like your children!" Gary and I hear this from family and friends all the time. Frankly, it is sometimes annoying and sometimes insulting. Don't get me wrong, we have lots of friends and family with kids and we love them, but why does our decision to not have children mean that we are somehow filling our "empty lives" with our dogs (and horses)?


Maybe it has to do with people having a general need to compartmentalize things and compare them to what they do in their own lives. Growing up, I always had a lot of pets. I was OBSESSED with them. I was always the kid that was taking home ducklings, garter snakes, or stray dogs. Did that mean that I was "fulfilling my maternal need with pets" as a young child? I think not! I was a total tom boy! I climbed trees, made mud pies, and played with Star Wars toys. The only thing I would use a baby doll for was to pull its' head off use it as a bucket catch tadpoles!

When you get right down to it, people have a lot of love to give. Plenty of people have kids and are still great "dog parents" and no one accuses them of fulfilling a subliminal need with their animals. Why do we as a society equate our desire to reproduce with emotional health and well being? Why can't we just want dogs (and horses) without it meeting some otherwise unfulfilled need? Why can the animal BE the need?

Anyway folks, that's just my Non-Freckles related rant for the day. Freckles, by the way, is doing fine. Her girly urges are fading. She is adjusting really well to life in the outside world. Stay tuned!

Love is in the air...

Did I mention that Freckles came to us during her...um...time of the month?  Unfortunately, this means we can't spay her for six weeks.  I haven't been around an female dog in heat for a while.  Boy, if women acted this way, we'd have to lock ourselves away for a week or so every month!  She's been...REALLY friendly.  She's humping the boys and the girls and she desperately wants them to reciprocate!!!

Yes folks, the Kowalski household is like a National Geographic special right now. On the bright side, her natural, hormonal drive to want to reproduce has really aided her in getting over her general feeling of being overwealmed by her new environment.  Nature is telling her "MAKE BABIES!!!"  This primal edict has overidden her shy, submissive demeanor.  Our girl is ready to PARTY!!!! She's trying her hardest to comply with Natures demand for reproduction and she not sure why none of these other beagles seem very interested.  What the hell does she know about spaying and neutering?

Coley is beside himself.  He has given his heart to a bisexual floosey.  He spent much of the evening verbally admonishing her for latching on to Cooper's neck and humping him like a jackhammer!  Ah, Love, she is a fickle mistress!  Any day now the hormones should be settling down and I might just gain control of my household again, but you never know!