A crazy half hour

Well, I've been trying to take some pictures of Garrison and the puppies for a while now. Today was the day I decided. That was a big mistake. The mistake part was that I tried to do it by myself. Justen had parent teacher conferences so he wasn't home. Six puppies, two very attention starved adult dogs, an 18 month old and a camera are not a good combination. Garrison ended up getting knocked down by all the exuberant dogs that wanted his attention. He started crying and yelling no no no at the dogs. This doesn't normally happen, probably because I'm usually petting puppies too, but since they couldn't get attention from me they all ganged up on him. So I decided we would just take one puppy and go up front and take pictures. Of course we took Brie because she's my favorite. No we didn't name her that, her new owners have already chosen her name she just won't be weaned until next week so she is still here. So I got some cute shots. That's when puppy pandelirium happened. The other pups all heard us out front and turns out they can still get through the fence even though we fixed it last week. So before I could do anything I had six loose puppies, 3 kitties who decided to join the fun, and a boy running around the front yard chasing eachother. Garrison had so much fun, but when the first car came the pups ran after it and Garrison ran after them and I couldn't stop everybody. Luckily it was my neighbor and she had been slowing down to pull in her own driveway. None of the pups were hurt but it made me realize I needed a plan to contain these guys quick. So what do you do when you need help herding an unruly group? You go get a border collie! So I took Garrison and sent Abby after her pups. All I had to do was walk in the back yard and call Abby. Then quickly shut the gate before anyone could escape again. Then eventually got everybody back into the kennel, except one black pup. So we took some more pictures with him. Except for every body running crazy for a little bit it was pretty fun. I'm going to miss the pups when they go, but Tia and Abby will be releaved to be house dogs again.