I live with 3 dogs, Aku is a 2 year old male Akita, Lulu is an 8 year old female Boxer and Bella is an 8 year old female Lab/Chow.

Aku got stuck with a cactus and developed a fatty tumor on his right shoulder so we had it removed. He got to playing with Lulu and ripped the stitches out. Got them replaced and he decided that jumping up and down and running in circles was a good idea and popped the stitches again. I don't remember how he did it the next 2 times. Then one day prior to getting the stitches out he got out and went crazy in the tall grass, he looks like Tigger. Came across a rather nasty Pit Bull (bred for and used in fighting). Got his ear bit and stitches out again. I think the PB is OK but Aku had a mouthfull of blood when we got them separated. Now he is wearing the cone which is duct taped from being broken on concrete door jambs, trees, and who knows what else. He has 6 days left to get the stitches out.

I am awakened at 6am each morning for breakfast and stared at at 6pm for dinner. At 11 and 3 I am poked for cookies. So who is the owner and who is the owned? The only advantage I have is an opposing thumb.

I wouldn't trade any one of the three of them for anything but, am curious, are they my dogs or am I their human.

( How did you not know (they owned you??????????)

I guess it was wishful thinking that I was smarter than them. Stupid assumption I know. I am the one that had to work for 57 years tobe able to take careof them. Still, if I had to do it all over again I would choose the dogs over a wife and did. I got the better of the deal.

See,they already had you at that point!!