Married with Children & Dogs
Sometimes your Portuguse Water dog is the smartest guy in the house
One year of wedded bliss and it looks like clear sailing ahead for Ben and Julia. They have settled into a very comfortable family routine, enjoying their relationship, children, and all the dogs. Together, they’ve built a new house big enough for everyone and moved in just in time for the wedding reenactment Sybil spent the last year planning. This promised family event would be the celebration of their new home as well as their first anniversary. That isn’t the only thing to throw a party over, Julia’s childhood friend, Cecilia, finally shed her loser husband, Alec Vogel, and is working on rebuilding her life. However, something in the air blows foul. The dogs know it and are trying their best to get the people they live with to know it too.
Playlist for Married with Children & Dogs?
When you read each chapter of Married with Children & Dogs, you’ll notice that the chapter title is also the title of a song. Download the playlist and listen along while you read. (Song titles are linked to Amazon Digital Music)
Our House • Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
I Just Want to Celebrate• Rare Earth
You’ll be in My Heart • Phil Collins
Dogs on the Run • Tom Petty
Raise Your Glass • Pink
Dirty Laundry • Don Henley
You and Me, Together • Dave Matthews Band
The Future • Leonard Cohen
Far from Any Road • The Handsome Family
Starving in the Belly of a Whale • Tom Waits
Celebrate Me Home • Kenny Loggins
A big part of this story tells of Boomer and the Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center (OCACPAC).
Animal Control and the Pet Adoption facilities and staff are amazing. The facility offers housing and medial care to thousands of animals on an annual basis. The shelter has the best save rate, for its size, in the state of Michigan. Three of our last four dogs were from this shelter.
The book only touches on the awesome facility and stellar staff, The work they do is incredible and I will be including more about them in future books.
If you hover and click on the picture above it will take you to the OCACPAC’s website. Check it out.