Peanut Butter & Cheese ~ New Blogger Alert

This week we've got some great new friends from Peanut Butter & Cheese.

I was a cat person who fell in love with a dog person. Kari (that's me) and Athena (the cat) moved in with James (the husband).

Athena

In 2008, We reluctantly rescued a border-collie mix (Zozo) and 3 years later we added to our litter with a pit bull-Catahoula leopard hound mix (MJ). Our dogs are wonderful, smart, silly and incredibly mischievous. They keep us on our toes and have forced us out into the world on adventures we'd otherwise bookworm away from. They're our furkids. Occasionally they're out of control.

Zozo

When we brought Zozo home, we knew he came with baggage. We also knew that having a young dog who hadn't spent much time with humans in a city would be hard work. We didn't realize just how tough it could be living and loving a pup with anxiety. Zozo has always excelled when he could take cues from another dog, so we searched for a bold fur-panion for him. MJ arrived to us as a 8 week old cannonball in 2011, with all of the stigma a pit bull can bring. It was then that we discovered the community that comes not only with adopting a rescue, but having one of those dogs considered to be a mean and vicious breed. Once Zozo's out of his shell, he's a goofball with party tricks. MJ wiggles and kisses and smiles at everyone. Neither fits a stereotype.

MJ

It was those dual, very different pupsonalities that inspired me to write "Peanut Butter & Cheese."* It covers our experiences dating back to 2008, when we first brought Zozo home, to today (although I haven't quite gotten there yet in my writing). Every Thursday is a new installment. Our big milestones, frustrations and day-to-day are pieced back together from diary entries, emails and text messages I kept since bringing the pups home. Sometimes it's happy, sometimes it's ugly. But it's all very real.

"Peanut Butter & Cheese" is named after the two go-to treats our furbabies are gaga for: Jiff Peanut Butter and Kraft American Cheese slices (the orange ones, not the white. Somehow, MJ can tell the difference).

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