Preparing for Parenthood

Let me start by telling everyone that I love our animals!
On to my morning... We finally made the decision to get Chill fixed, we only been talking about it for over a year! So today was the big day and I figured while i was going to the vet i should have Oprah the cat fixed too - makes sense then i only have to make one trip and we will not have kittens. I realize that I will need help transporting both the cat and the dog in the car .... what to do ... I have it ... i'll get one of those boxes that they send you home from the SPCA with! Okay now that I have transportation figured out - this will be easy!

WOW!! I was wrong! I put Oprah in her box and put Chill in the front seat of the truck, we're all in and ready to! I pull out of our driveway and call Andrew to tell him we are on our way and everything is going great! That was a mistake - no sooner do I hang up is Oprah SCREAMING and Chill barking at her! I just trun the radio up and keep driving (the vet is in a canyon about 20 minutes from our house). Then Oprah starts to push her way out of the box and Chill is attacking her, did I mention that Chill loves to pound Oprah! Great I can see a cat & dog fight in the front seat while I am driving a curvy mountain road. I take Oprah and push her head back into the box and hold it there, use my elbow to shove Chill back into his bed, and continue driving. This goes on for a few minutes until I can not stand the music on my Ipod and have to change songs. Oprah decides to shove her head out again so back to holding her and telling Chill to lay down. Meanwhile I am bending over to keep the cat in the box and the baby is getting squished so he is kicking and moving to try and keep from getting squished - so i am in pain from his beating.

I hope you can all see this image in your head - Lauri driving down a curvy mountain road yelling at Chill, holding Oprahs head down and attempting to change the Ipod. as all of this happens I flash forward to me taking kids somewhere and something simuliar happening! and they say animals don't prepare you for parenthood - maybe they should spend a day with Oprah & Chill!

On a side note everyone is doing great - I think getting fixed was more scary for me then Chill.