The truth about my cats and dogs

“Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't get eight cats to pull a sled through snow.”
― Jeff Valdez

While Corb is getting his chandelier restoration business up and running (not an easy thing to do during a pandemic), he's been taking in a few odd jobs. One of them has been looking after an old cocker spaniel named Sophie. 

Sophie's owner has for the past three years left her with us during the Christmas holidays, and this year left her with us because she fell in love online about eight months ago and flew to England to be with the guy for the holidays. Yeah, I know, height of the pandemic, mutant strain, traveling during the holidays. Fie on all that, what does it matter when you are in love, right? 

What it reinforces for me every time we have Sophie for extended periods is that a) I am most certainly a cat, not a dog person and b) two dogs at the same time brings me to my doggy breaking point. 

We love our pup Kyra, although she is super structured. She's a rescue pup that we saved from a bad situation and we cherish her,  but she definitely has a routine for everything, morning through evening, and hounds us if things aren't on schedule. Still, it's kind of cute and doesn't get too stressful. 

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