Why a DAD?

So, aside from the question "Why 2 dogs?", the next question comes up alot.

"Why do you need a DAD?"

I will share just 1 of many specific reasons here. This will probably be the first of an on-going series of "Why a DAD?".

As Type 1 parents, we tend to walk around in perpetual exhaustion. There are multiple checks at night. Our night goes like this, and I will keep it simple, based on an average night:

1. Check the girl's BS when she goes to bed.  (If it's in range, great. If not, I could do 3 more posts on all the different things that may need to happen, decisions to be made, etc. Bedtime is scary time)

2. Check again when the parents go to bed.

3. Set Alarm for midnight and 3. (This is normal unless a low correction or an aggressive high correction is made)

4. Check her again at wake-up (6am)

Now we do all of this even WITH a DAD. Animals are living, breathing things, just like us. They can miss an alert, be extremely tired from a day out with the kids, not feel well, any number of things could lead to a missed alert. So the DAD's aren't robots or alarms, they are part of a redundant back up system. A safety net. Dogs are NOT responsible for my child's health or life, we parents are. But they do come in really handy.

Which leads us to last night.