I wake up this morning to a warm bed full of furry unconditional love and a little attitude. Strewn around my contorted body are all five of my pets in a humorous display of domestic co-existence.

Lounging on my legs cleaning her tiny gray face with her deadly sharp paws is the little princess of the house BBK (short for Bad Baby Kitty ~ and let me tell you she certainly lives up to her name). She usually doesn't grace me with her presence in bed ~ the couch is her domain ~ so I'm guessing the cats are out of food.

To my right, taking up my husband's place in the bed, is our basset hound Reba who climbs in bed every morning when Dave leaves for work and snores almost as loudly as the he does, making the changing of the guard nearly seamless. Her head is propped up on the pillow and she looks over at me, her hound dog eyes creating a strangely human expression as if saying, "Just five more minutes."

And at the foot of the bed are my two tailless manx cats, Jack and Lucky, practically spooning with my big brown baby Rowan. Rowan is a 10-year-old pound puppy who's grown into one of the sweetest animals I've ever had the honor of loving. She's a bit intimidating to look at ~ a half lab, half pit mix ~ but truth is she's scared to death of cats, so she's curled up into the tiniest ball she can fit her 85-pound frame into and she's trying to be very, very still so as not to draw any attention to herself.

Problem is, sensing her fear, the cats LOVE her (especially Lucky who kisses her on the face and licks her paws making Rowan absolutely crazy). Lucky and Jack are mammoth-sized cats that my husband found in a cemetery as kittens. He brought the whole litter home, along with mama, and this brother and sister duo were too cute to split up, so we kept them both.

Now those adorable little kittens, one black and one orange, each weigh over 15 pounds each and take up almost as much room on the bed as the damn basset hound (who is still snoring by the way).

Uh oh... gotta go, BBK just found her way under the covers ~ this could mean big trouble.
 


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