Meet the Girls

As promised, here are the name sakes for our little corner of the world. Top dog is Tuff-Enuf Mugwump. She's a Pitcur Hound, hounds raised to hunt bear and mountain lion.

Son #3 is a pet magnet. Someone brought a bunch of puppies around to where he worked and told him they were pit bulls, that they were 8 weeks old and that if they didn't find them homes they were going to be euthanized. Of course he brought home a puppy. As it turns out, she came from a drug house where the mother of the pups had been fed speed and was at the vets about dead. The pups were only 4 weeks old and they had also been fed speed. How she survived is any one's guess but survive she did. All grown up she has the face of an angel and the disposition of an alligator with PMS. However, as you can see, all grown up she does manage to tolerate playing dress-up.

Tuff-E's trusty sidekick is Hurricane Cali. Cali is another one of Son #3's rescues. She's a purebred AmStaff, aka American Staffordshire Terrier and sometimes referred to as a Pit bull(http://www.akc.org/breeds/american_staffordshire_terrier/index.cfm). This picture was taken when she was 4 months old and recovering from getting run over by two cars. Not hit, literally run over. Broken leg, smashed pelvis, head trauma and lung problems.

However, you can't keep a good dog down and Cali is also all grown up. ADHD and plagued by problems from coming from a backyard breeder, she also suffers from an identity crisis. She thinks she's a hound. If you've never heard an AmStaff try to howl, you're missing one of the funniest events in dogdom! She also tries to follow a trail. If Tuff-E does it, Cali tries to do it.

And, as you can see, Cali also does dress-up. However, unlike Tuff-E who merely tolerates it, Cali likes to play dress-up. So much for the evil pit bull.