I have 2 dogs and a cat. My dogs are Finnigan (a 4.5 year old puggle) and Breya (a 3 year old German pinscher). My cat is a calico that was abandoned in our apartment building that OH convinced me to keep after no one claimed her...I'm not a big fan of cats but she's not bad. Her name is Cat Soup (Soup for short...OH named her that). This picture of the dogs was taken a couple years ago but they both pretty much look the same, except Finnigan has gotten fatter.
https://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab171/CassMack/IMG_4274.jpg
I got Finnigan even before OH and I got together and he was my baby...he still is but it's definitely changed since having Callum. I honestly didn't think I'd love a child more than Finnigan but having Callum has put my love for Finny into perspective. I don't love him less than I did pre-baby but it's a different love. I broke down a lot in tears the first couple weeks after Callum was born because I felt SO guilty that I wasn't spending the time with Finnigan that I had before Callum was born. On my days off, or even when I went on maternity leave and before I had Callum, when I would nap Finnigan would follow me to bed all excited and curl up against my stomach and we would sleep like that (he sleeps in a crate at night time). But now if I nap it's for like 20 mins on the couch, or with Callum in bed with me, in which case I don't let the dogs in the room. Sometimes when OH has the next day off he'll stay up late to play video games and so I'll go to bed a bit early and Finnigan will come with me and we'll snuggle until OH takes them out and then puts them in their crates for the night. I still feel guilty that I can't give him the attention I used to but things change, I make sure when Callum goes to bed I snuggle with Finny for a bit. Breya, on the other hand is totally independent, spends her whole day in our bed sleeping under the covers until OH comes home from work and then she's all wanting to play and everything. She's a total daddy's girl so I don't worry so much about her. Wow that was long, haha. Guess I just had to get out my guilt for Finnigan
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