Insanity, insanity!

Another eventful week in our household. This week we decided to add to the insanity by bringing in our dog. We have a black lab named Joe who is about 8 years old. He's been an outside dog all these years and we felt it was time to bring him in. First, of course, came a DEEP bath then the decision of where to put him. Well, his crate ended up on our 3 season porch and he has decided to confine himself to that room....never venturing out to the rest of the house. Until yesterday....he got brave and entered our family/kitchen area. That area has laminate floors and Joe doesn't like them. He's learned in the past few days to walk gingerly on them and is getting better at navigating from area rug to throw rug and back. Our two cats, Machito (Chito---he's NOT orange) and Tuxedo (he looks like a little man wearing a tuxedo, minus the bowtie) have also become braver. Chito is more daring of the two and he and Joe have even sniffed each other and walked around in circles with each other...like a little dance. Joe hasn't growled....I think he just got a little excited (actually a LOT excited) thinking that maybe he had a "partner". That's what happens when they're not neutered...lol. Tuxedo didn't get as close....maybe about 2 feet away...and when he did he got up on his hind paws and started batting at Joe. He looked like a little prize fighter....I laughed so hard!!

Now, Jake (our 11 year old) has the duty of morning and afternoon walks because he was the one that kept bugging us to bring him in the house. We've used the scare tactic that if he doesn't take him for a walk he's going to the humane society. I've never seen a little boy move so quickly.

So to add to our ever mad household we now have a man, a peri-menopausal woman, a menstrating teenage girl, a prepubescent boy, a testosterone-filled black lab and 2 neurotic cats. How's that for insanity?