To the market, to the market ..

The kids, Gregg and i wake up on a Sunday morning, and chant our "to the market, to the market, to buy a fat pig, then beach again, beach again, jiggety jig" .. now, just incase Julia Gillard is reading my blog, as she would .. you didn't see the above line, what we actually chant is .. "to the market, to the market, to buy a multicultural pig" .. we sing this because we like to be politically correct and good role models for our children, and to call the pig 'fat' is not setting a very good body image, whereas if we speak of a 'multicultural' pig, it opens the conversation up to discuss matters of the world today, wouldn't you agree, Julia?

Anyyyyyywho .. our Sundays are fairly 'standard', we love the market as i get my fruit n' veg, the kids spend their pocket money and Gregg and i get to see some really wierd looking bergians walking about .. it's fun for all! Honestly, Julia .. try it, i'v seen a few other rangas there and they didn't get bashed or anything!!!!

We had been talking for a long time about getting 2 more puppies, but i was hesitant as we have had nothing but bad luck with puppies in the past .. there was the one with the terrible worm thing going on, Gregg got her as a suprise from the pet shop, we had her for 2 days and she vomitted up live, wriggling worms .. lots of them. I rang the RSPCA and they suggested that she had never been wormed, and for her to vomit up live worms they would have caused a fair bit of trouble to her insides, now heartless as this seems, we had a 2 year old, and a 3 month old baby at the time, i was up to my knees in bleaching the house from 'worms' and we really couldn't deal (financially, emotionaly or physically) with a pup that was already having such problems all due to a shit pet shop, so we made the shop owner take her back. He wasn't happy, said he wouldn't refund the money, blagh, blagh, blagh and he tried to shift the blame onto US .. saying that we shouldn't have bought a pup etc .. we didn't want our money back, we wanted for him to start looking after his animals correctly. I had heard many bad things about this pet shop but i hadn't thought to mention them to Gregg, otherwise he would have known to not buy from there. In the end, he took the pup back, we reported him to the animal welfare who were VERY interested, said they were investigating and a few months later his shop was no longer there .. (i doubt very much that my one report would have closed his shop down, but there was obviously other reports, and when the animal welfare went and investigated, they would have had access to things which we, as customers, didn't)

Then there was beautiful Miley, who Gregg bought as yet another suprise ..she was gorgeous, about 2 years old and full of beans ..the only problem was, as a 2 year old she had already picked up some nasty habits and we really didn't have it in us to re-train a dog who was already set in her ways. One of her 'ways' was to play far too rough with the kids, she would scratch them, jumping on them and pushing them over, and she began bitting them too .. needless to say we had to let her go to another family. The first 2 people who rang up about her, i didn't like them, i didn't  have a good feeling about them so i said she had already gone to a new home. It was 3rd time lucky, a gentleman came and fell in love with her, then he went home to talk to his family, then returned with ALL the family including the other dog .. they took her for a walk .. then took her home :-) .. i have some friends who are REAL, REAL, REAL animal lovers .. and i know they think we are irresponsible pet owners for letting the 2 dogs go, but in reality, my kids will always come first. The dogs become part of the family, yes .. but they are never above the children.

So, back to the market .. we were talking about getting the kids a bird each .. or perhaps some guinea pigs .. we seen both at the market, and we asked some questions, made some enquiries but really we aren't in love with the idea of guinea pigs or birds. Now .. to get home, we had to walk to the car .. and to get to the car, we had to walk past a guy who was selling some puppies from the boot of his little datsun. (totally not unusual at the market, there is always 'car boot puppy sales' .. we stop and pretend we are going to buy puppies every week, just so we can get them out of the boots and pat/play with them .. then we say "okay, thanks for that .. we will go home and have a think about it and get back to you" .. there was the one guy selling pups from the back of his ute .. now there was NO way we were going to buy off him .. he was SUCH a bergian .. "Yeah mate, get em out and pat em' n' shit but look fer the shit, the shits everywhere mate, theyre pigs too mate, they're mum died, stupid bitch got hit by a car" .. uhhhh, C-ya!! He had less teeth than a collingwood supporter.

This Sunday was different though, the guy and his little green datsun with the 5 puppies inside. It was a litter of 13 puppies and there was 5 left which they were keen to see the last of. Straight away we both fell in love with the one with the stripy/spotty nose. I picked him up and he cuddled right into me like one of the kids would, he was definately a keeper!! .. then we played with a few more of them and got them out of the boot .. and we fell in love with the one with the stripey nose. We chatted with the guy for a bit, he told us about the nature of the pups, i refrained from telling him his breath stank and his kid was ugly then we said we would give him a call in 30 minutes or so and let him know if we were going to take them .. the plan was for us to go to Sams Warehouse, look at kennels etc and talk about if we were really ready for 2 new puppies .. an hour later we had purchased a kennel, a shit load of food, toys, blankies, bowls, walking leads, car harnesses, treats etc and were on our way back to the market! To the market to the market to buy 2 cute dogs ..

The rest is really history .. our family grew. By 2. It took us all day to name them .. Bundy and Cougar. They are now vaccinated, mocrochipped, fully vet checked, wormed, de-flead etc ..

Heath was outside thismorning playing with them, and he was grabbing inbetween it's back legs .. "Heath, what are you doing?" .. "trying to grab it's sausage Mum .. " .. "Uhhhh, you KNOW  thats it's willy, right?" .. "Oh, yuck, YUCK!!!" .. normally he's a pretty bright kid but .. yeah .. not sure what happened there .. mental note to show him the anatomy book again ..

As for Roxiee .. well, we don't expect so much from her so we really aren't that alarmed when we see her crawling through the garden on all fours, with a dog toy in her mouth .. at least she drops it when she wants to eat some grass .. coz, if she tried to eat the grass with the toy still in her mouth, well then she would look silly! ..

So, i have a photo which pretty much sums up this blog ..

Not a great photo, but you get the jist :-)