"Kids"

Having dogs is like having kids. I have two dogs, a black lab and a golden retriever. The golden is a runt the lab didn't get as big as he should have. They are very hyper, energetic dogs. I feel bad for them now that I'm in school now though.
Three days of the week I have school in the morning and right after school I go to work. So they're locked up all day. The lab I have to keep locked in his kennel because if I leave him out he'll chew things apart. The other one has so stay locked in my room.
When I take them outside to play fetch they never retrieve very good. They're more interested in sniffing new things and peeing in every spot they can. Then when I take them for walks they pretty much are the ones that are walking me. I can't even enjoy the walk and the next day my leg and butt muscles hurt so bad.
When my husband and I move to Illinois for the rest of our schooling we might have to leave them with his brother out west. It is so hard to find a decent priced place to live when you have two dogs and two cats. We would miss them a lot but we know they'd be happy over there because it's a wide open area for them to run around and explore new things and of course lots of places to pee.