Although I have already touched on this subject, I think that there are more steps in being a dog mom.
I've spent these past month (since I wrote the last part) and I think that I have compiled a good few more things in being a committed dog mom. Without further ado, let's get to it.
1. You have to take your dogs everywhere
I have had to change plans so my dogs could go with me. At first, it was difficult, finding places that dogs were allowed but most places with an outside patio will allow your dogs there. Parks are great places too and it is a good way for dogs to meet/socialize with other dogs.
I take my dogs in the car with me all of the time. Whether to my sister's work or to the store, my pooches are coming with me.
2. While Away At School, How Often Do You Call Just For Your Dogs?
Last year, while living at school, I would constantly be FaceTime calling my sister and I would insist on talking to my dogs. I would want to see how they were doing. I missed them dearly and seeing other people's dogs around campus would break my heart. (Because I didn't have my own.)
3. Half Of Your Food Is Now Your Dogs' Food
I tend to cook a lot of my own meals and if I looked on either side of me, I would see both of my dogs begging for the food I was preparing. Small yips, clawing and scratching into my legs and staring up to me, waiting for me to slip up and drop the meal.
Once I sit at the kitchen table, the process starts all over again.
4. You Have To Love Snuggles
Who doesn't love cuddling a dog? Scratch that, people allergic to them don't but they do it anyway. I love that dogs will just cuddle right up to you. The smaller of my two dogs loves to be held and sit right next to you when storms come through.
If you grab a blanket, the smaller one will always come and snuggle with you. The other one, Coconut, loves cuddles and her belly being rubbed.
5. How Many Nicknames Does Your Dogs Have?
So, as I have mentioned, I have two dogs. Two Malteses. Coconut and Sophie. But they have so many nicknames. Here's a few:
-Coconut: Bubba, Bubby, Coco, Coke, Baby Girl, Cokey, Cuddle, etc.
-Sophie: Sweet One, Sozie, Suzu, Wee One, The Wee Wu, etc.
The list goes on and on for the both of them. But both only listen to their actual names.
6. Your Voice Changes While Talking To Them
My voice tends to get higher pitched and louder and forms words unrecognized by a dictionary when I speak to my dogs. Weird pitches come out. It almost reminds me of how one would talk to a baby.
Those are some more ways I know that I am a dog mom. What are some of the ways that you know you're a dog mom? Use #dogmomstatus to show off your fabulous pups!
