Are we moving?

Dad is fixing up the house all over the place.  He is clearing out stuff from under the house, which I like because it gives Lou and me more room in our "man cave" where we spend most of our days sleeping only emerging to bark at a passing dog or the neighbor's cat down by the garden fence.  He fixed walls going up the stairs which was damaged moving furniture.  He is painting too, which I don't like since dog's noses are sensitive to strong smells like paint fumes.  Mom told Dad to get the house fixed up as if we are going to sell it.  Mom likes to have her house neat as a pin but Dad is messy in his office and the garage.  Normally Dad tries to keep things looking somewhat together.  Not like now, though.  Are we going to move out of our house?  Lou and I have only lived here.  We have visited other houses, like Allen and Jacalyn's house in the wine country, which used to be really great until they got Jesse and Jose, who try to take my shoe so I growl at them.  Lou likes to fence fight with their neighbor's dog, which Jacalyn worries will teach Jesse and Jose to do that too.  So we don't get to go there anymore.

Mom loves our house.  She always said this is her favorite house ever.  She and Dad work so hard keeping up the gardens with pretty flowers and bushes, which Lou and I have to dig up from time to time because we get bored with the old stuff and want new bushes and flowers.  The fruit trees, the bocce court, and especially the pool all make Mom so happy. We have really great neighbors too who watch out for us and invite Mom and Dad to parties, and even have a disaster preparedness organization that Dad helps out with. If Mom and Dad move us somewhere else, it won't be as good and it won't be the home we have always known and love so much.  I will bark at anyone who tries to take our house and make me move away.