Awwww. A good FB post

[birdistheword]

A friend of mine had a baby a few months ago, and just posted this on FB. I totally cried reading it. I must be emotional today. I love people who love their pets.

So throughout my pregnancy I had a lot of people say things to me about how my love for my dogs would change as soon as my son got here. Well they were right, not the way they thought though. Yes my love for my pups has changed, I love them even more than before. They have been so amazing with our sweet baby [name deleted]. Never jealous, just sweet, protective and gentle. I never understood why people would get a dog and then give them up once they had kids, saying it's too hard or it's unfair to their dogs. I purposefully make time every day to sit and love on mine and remind them they're still my babies. Dogs are not a holding place until you start making a family. They are your family and I don't know what I'd do without them.

And here are her pups for good measure:

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I must be emotional too because that was really sweet.

[TrickyBob]

Your friend is good people. And the dogs are adorable.

[eb777888]

This is super duper sweet. I love it.

[lime]

Very sweet.

[WOT?*]

I love her pups. That was a really sweet post that I wish more people would take to heart.

[Jermys]

I felt exactly the same. I love my dog even more now after seeing her with the kids.

[missmaddie]

Agreed. Our lab is patient to a fault with DS. Last week he was putting stickers all over her head and she just stood there. I was like, "Seriously, why don't you escape and go nap upstairs or something so I can live vicariously through you?"

DH works shifts, so I love having her home to bark up a storm if she hears something at night, I love that she stiffens up and is a little bit more on guard when we pass other people or dogs on walks with DS. I love that he (2) has recently taken to calling her his sister. I think dogs teach kids about caring, generosity (he always shares unwanted leftovers, lol),love, and responsibility too.

[kcr1972]

Is the darker one a mastiff? When my son was a baby my friends had a huge mastiff and he was absolutely so sweet with DS. He loved to lay by him and watch him. They are great family dogs.

[nicanmatt]

What a sweet post! My dog is totally a nanny-dog. She follows DS around outside and always checks out whomever is holding Charlotte. It's like she has to confirm they have her ok and get her approval to hold her baby. She's awesome!

[azurely]

That's so sweet! Those are handsome dogs.

[cst2cst]

Well, of course she said that. They are boxers!

I feel the exact same way about my boxers and posted a pic on FB tonight of dd kissing my boy boxer. So sweet!

[cst2cst]

Nov 10, 2013 22:52:36 GMT -5 kcr1972 said:

Is the darker one a mastiff? When my son was a baby my friends had a huge mastiff and he was absolutely so sweet with DS. He loved to lay by him and watch him. They are great family dogs.

Nope, it is a boxer too. My girl is a little darker than that one. They are reverse brindles.

[isabel]

Your friend is awesome for posting that.

[mcmel]

I love this.

It makes me so sad when people say they don't have time for their dogs anymore for whatever reason.

[birdistheword]

Nov 10, 2013 23:01:31 GMT -5 cst2cst said:

Nov 10, 2013 22:52:36 GMT -5 kcr1972 said:

Is the darker one a mastiff? When my son was a baby my friends had a huge mastiff and he was absolutely so sweet with DS. He loved to lay by him and watch him. They are great family dogs.

Nope, it is a boxer too. My girl is a little darker than that one. They are reverse brindles.

The lighter one is actually half mastiff-half boxer. The darker one is all boxer. 

[milosh]

Love that post, your friend has her shit together!

[shoeless]

OMG Boxers!!!!!! Love

[RoxMonster]

I love this, and I wish more people felt the way she did.

[BlackCanary]

That is so sweet! Abby is really patient with kids, my friend's daughter was "hitting" her with a Nerf sword. Little girl was hitting the sword on Abby's butt and Abby is just standing there with her silly puppy grin. What a doof. 

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I, too, love that post. So sweet.

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[snickers]

awwww

[mrsukyankee]

That is awesome.

[eddy]

I wish I had a happy post-baby relationship with my dog.

In reality she is so anxious/neurotic that I don't think the addition of kids has been good for her. But we are all stuck together so what can you do. But I can't be all rainbows and unicorns about it.

[Deleted]

I really disliked my dog for awhile after DS was born. We are still not at the same place we were before DS was born, but we are getting to the point where we can have some snuggles and cuddles now, and special playtimes.

I would never get rid of her just because we weren't getting along. She's family. We go through our peaks and valleys in our relationship. \

[bania]

That is great. I love Boxers.

[silva]

Bravo! Agree 100%

[eddy]

Nov 11, 2013 11:00:59 GMT -5 @savestheday said:

I really disliked my dog for awhile after DS was born. We are still not at the same place we were before DS was born, but we are getting to the point where we can have some snuggles and cuddles now, and special playtimes.

I would never get rid of her just because we weren't getting along. She's family. We go through our peaks and valleys in our relationship. \

LOL this is like how we say you should talk about how everyone doesn't fall in love with their baby right away. I feel like we should be able to talk about how there was a time period when there was hatred for the dog after both babies were born. I hated my dog both times. 

It is better now. It takes a long time to get back to a normal relationship again. Again this is why I think she probably would have been happier with a no kid family. But I wouldn't give her up over it. She is adopted and we have had her for 8 years. We are stuck in our dysfunctional relationship together lol.

[julez]

This is really sweet.

That said, I'm sad to say that things have been hard with our dogs since DD was born. I'm in the @savestheday camp. I hope that I'm still a good dog mom when the twins come.