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HundenruheHaven	Jul 23 2008, 10:57 PM
Chatterbox Posts: 633 Group: Full Members Member #700 Joined: July 15, 2008	piwoodhouse Jul 23 2008, 03:41 PM Oh wow - dogs with jobs! Don't you just love them???! And I bet they draw the crowds in too. Please keep the photos coming - I could look at these dogs all day :wub: One thing that puzzles me a bit - you work, cherish all these lovely dogs and STILL have time to produce home-baking goodies and hand-painted dog collars? Which week of the year you do finally succumb to sleep?!! Sometimes I wonder how it all happens, but it does! Most importantly, I couldn't do it without my amazing husband. It's a matter of planning, mostly. :blush: I have really learned to do more than one thing at a time, like reading school texts, petting dogs, and eating lunch all at the same time! We have the thirteen dogs (in the house) and the horse and kitty in the barn. Dan handles the barn chores, and I feed and medicate the dogs, both twice a day. I am half-way through graduate school, and will have my master's degree in May 2009. So some evenings year-round are spent in classes or doing homework. September through June, I teach full time. Evenings during the school year, I correct papers, plan for the next day, make the notecards, and paint the collars (all usually with a couple of dogs on my lap!) In the summer, I teach summer school in the mornings only. Graduate school is in the afternoon and one evening a week. Homework is done when I can, and Friday is eight hours of baking biskies whenever I can fit it in - sometimes late at night. Saturday mornings in the summer are for selling at the market, afternoons are for yard chores (we mow about 7 of the 40 acres so the dogs don't have to fight long grass) and four-five loads of dog laundry (bedding, etc.). Sundays are for my laundry. I like to cook, so most evenings, I cook dinner for the hubby and I as well. Needless to say, once I sit down, both hands are busy on the computer and/or petting pups. Somehow it all gets done. Lots of pets and praises are given out just moving about through the house. I don't remember what it's like to move through the house standing upright - usually its petting and talking as I go! :lol: I'm sure, though, that it's not that much more work than the rest of you - I don't have kids to add to the melee!


Does this count as work? · Working dogs