The animals we love

My sister volunteered at Petsmart last weekend for Adoption day, and my boyfriend and I went to support her. My sister told me she was going to persuade my dad into getting this rat terrier, and I'm thinking, of course not, they already have a dog, 8 cats, and a wild bunny. Well, they ended up getting the dog anyway, named Dixie. It's like a zoo at my parents' house. Our other dog is a mixed terrier, and his name is Milo. The new dog, Dixie, is 6 years old, and Milo is only like 2. Dixie is very interesting though, I guess because we've never adopted an animal a pet as old as she is; not that 6 is old, but it's older than most of our animals. We've also never adopted an animal from Petsmart, we've only adopted animals from the pound. But either way we're saving a life. The good thing about Dixie being older is that she is already trained, set in her ways, which may not be such a good thing, and LISTENS, unlike Milo, who is not so trained well by my parents. Milo likes to do his business in my parents' house. When Dixie is taken outside, she has no problem doing her business, so obviously she was trained well; she acts like a real dog, unlike Milo, but that's also the trainer's fault: my family.

It's clear, though, that Dixie has never been that close to cats before. She likes to chase them around the house, but that's after the cats have hissed at her, so she probably feels threatened. She likes to bark loudly at them if they try to run away, but that's just what animals do, especially when they're not used to each other. One of my kittens, Bootsie let Dixie get close to him, and at first it was going good because Bootisie didn't get scared like he did before. But Dixie was shaking, and stared at Bootsie for what seemed like an hour. It was weird but probably because I'm not used it. Milo is much different with the cats. He cuddles with them and acts like he's a cat himself, but of course he was the only dog with 8 cats, so I can understand that. It's so cute because as soon as we got the kittens, he acted like he was supposed to protect them, as though they were his babies, and other times we would find him putting his mouth over their entire head. Anyway, I'm sure it's because Milo started with cats from the beginning, and Dixie is already 6 and probably hasn't been around cats before. We're certainly not going to give Dixie up like her previous owner did, so she's stuck with us, and we're stuck with her.