Buying a Puppy that will be a large guard dog - $350

Dog food to feed to monster guard dog - $40 per month

Fence to contain said fierce monster guard dog - $3000

Finding out that your fierce monster guard dog is deathly

afraid of the vacume cleaner!! - Priceless

(*and very annoying*)

Kids and Dogs...are pretty much the same....right?!

As I have mentioned before, we have a monster dog at our house. Most days he has free reign of the downstairs of our house. Unless he is being naughty or we have company over at our house dose he get put into his kennel. Most days it just sits empty, annoying me for the space it takes up. Anyway, I came home from work yesterday and was informed by Super Grandma Babysitter, that Princess wanted to sleep in the kennel. GM said that she laid in the kennel with her pillow for about an hour, when GM finally made her get out and take a nap in a more suitable place. Fast forward to bedtime, when Princess was again playing in the kennel, and wanted to sleep in there for the night. I actually entertained a thought of letting her. I envisioned moving the kennel into her room, putting some padding on the floor, and letting her sleep in it for the night, so she would at least go to bed without a fight.
Mindless Daddy didn't share the same vision I did, and volunteered to put Princess to bed. I think he could tell the stress has finally gotten to me and I might be starting to crack.

The Wonders of Toddlerhood

As I have mentioned before, we here at the mindless household have a little 2 1/2 year old princess. (or toddler monster depending on the day) Most days in our house are pretty routine, but then she throws out her little toddler euphonium's, and throws our world for a loop. Yesterday while we were eating a nice dinner of hot dogs (a toddler staple in our house) she dropped a piece of her hot dog, which was immediately consumed by the under the table lurking ball of fur we affectionately call Tucker the dog. Now usually when this happens, it is a complete and utter toddler melt down, but yesterday she remained calm. She started pointing at something on the counter and was saying, "No, No, Drop it!" I must admit, I was quite perplexed. Now mind you, I am the toddler interpreter in our house and can usually tell what she wants and what she is trying to say, but I was at a loss. After about 10 minutes I finally figured it out, she wanted to have the remote for the dog's shock collar that he usually wears. Apparently she has seen us get the remote and point it at the dog and tell him to "Drop it!" when he has something that we want back.
So my little princess wanted to shock the heck out of the dog in order to get the little piece of hot dog back. I actually though about letting her... for a nano second..I wonder if he would actually start minding if her knew his fate of being shocked was in the hands of a very button pushing happy toddler... We might have to try that...