Ohhhh, Diana! How do you keep them all calm and happy?....LOL
Who says they are all ever calm and happy?

I have to say there are times that I think I am going out of my mind especially when all the dogs are barking and the kids are screaming because PaPaw's home. You'd think they hadn't seen him in a month instead of a few hours. Actually you'd be surprised at how calm it is sometimes. You would hardly know there are 8 dogs in the house. Sometimes we give them rawhide to chew on and that keeps them happy for about 5 minutes or so - okay a little longer than that. The little ones tend to play more together than the bigger ones although when Dakota gets out back - look out.

My biggest probelm right now is two of Christy's bark ALOT and now have mine competing with them. Destiny barks at every little noise she think she might be going to hear and Sierra just barks to bark. Now and then when they all start getting to me, we call a time out and as many as we can get into crates go into crates. We have 6 crates so that leaves a couple loose but we try to pick the calmer ones to be out.


Although we have not been able to do it very often, the best way to get them to get along is to keep them tired out. Our yard is not really big enough for them to run in so things don't go as well as they could. But when they get out to the dog park and get to run alot they come home and crash - which is always a good thing!

So how are things going now Robin? You sure have a cute crew with you. I am sure it will be a fun weekend but like it is with all grandkids it will be nice to send them home to their parents too!