My Aunt Came Down With 4 Of Her Dogs

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My aunt lives four hours from my parents and hasn't been down in almost 3 years. She came down on Wednesday and left yesterday however, she brought down 4 of her 21 dogs. That's NOT a typo, yes, she and her husband have 21 dogs and 20 cats. Majority of the dogs are up in age for she'd had them a long long time and most of them are strays both cats and dogs that found her or she found them. Anyway, she came down and brought 4 of her dogs with her. That put so much stress on my parents that it was unreal! I went to see her before she left and the tension was so thick you could cut it with a knife! UGH! My aunts dogs had peed on the spare bedroom bed, pooed and peed all over the floor throughout the house, peed on the couch and my parents bed. I was there from 3:00 to something after 11 last night. I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned some more!! I thought I'd never get done! OH! And get this! My parents washing machine had broke down. So I took all the linens and what ever else I could find and brought them home and washed them myself. I'm almost done with that. I've never seen or smelled so much dog poo and pee in all of my life! Although my mom loves her sister, she hopes she doesn't come again with any of her pets because this was just too deg gone much! What happened to common sense people?? She KNEW neither of my parents were well! She KNEW that but she still brought these dogs down to my parents house! Ever heard of pictures?? In the meantime, hubby was having his 'day off' and gone fishing. He's constantly doing something at home and needed some time off to himself so I wasn't going to call him for help. Well so I thought. I had to clean the cushions on the couch but I couldn't get the attachments to attach to the shampooer. Hubby calls me and tells me he's ordered a pizza from a place that's in the opposite direction from my parents place. I told him that I haven't a clue when I'd be home and it would be cold by the time I got there to bring it up to my parents. He didn't want to do that but then I explained the problem I was having and he gave me a hard time about it so I told him to forget it. He knew then I was a bit upset and decided to come up afterall and bring our shampooer and he ordered a couple of extra salads for mom and dad. Well, dad figured out how to do the attachment so I went on and cleaned the couch really good. I didn't call hubby back because I had already told my parents he was bringing pizza for us all and he bought two extra salads and all is ok. Mom just knew he was going to be mad as hell when he got there and I kept reassuring her that no he wasn't and all was going to be ok. WRONG! I was busy shampooing when he came in so I didn't see him till he asked me where the shampoo was and I told him lets eat first and he said no, he wanted to help get the cleaning done then we'll eat. I told him that dad had to eat because of his sugar levels, he's a diabetic. Now I didn't see this but my parents sure did, hubby comes in with the food and slams it on the table! Then he's shampooing where ever that needs doing which is the whole deg gone house except where I've already done. Mom and dad had disappeared and I had no idea where they had went. (I found out later that they went into hiding in their bedroom with the lights out because of what hubby had said! ) Once we were finished, I called for them and mom came out all stressed out and very tired looking. I told her that we're done and it's time to eat. Hubby speaks up and says, I'm not hungry now! Then mom says she's not hungry either. I so wanted to explode!! But I didn't. I finished putting the shampooer away and then went into the kitchen and acted like nothing was wrong and got the food prepared on the plates to be reheated in the microwave and hubby comes in and I told him "THANKS A HELL OF A LOT! and to get mom in here and LETS EAT!" So he did and we all sat down at the table and ate. Mom ate her salad and that was it but at least she ate. Then I announced that it was time for us to go and hubby jumps up and says his goodbyes and rushed out the door. Ok.... see ya when I get home.....? He comes back in and asked me if I needed him to follow me home and I said no, I'll be fine, so he left. THAT'S when I found out what hubby had said to my parents, "I'm not doing this for you, I'm doing this for her" And about him slamming the food on the table. They KNEW he was mad and mad at them and they didn't blame him and said that it wasn't his responsibility to clean their house and it's not my responsibility either but they do appreciate our help but they understand why hubby is mad at them because it's late and he didn't want to come there. I tried to reassure them that he wasn't mad and that that is his way of doing things by slamming things and how much I hate it because he does break a lot of things by doing that. I know hubby isn't fond of my parents as he once was and that's because of the hateful things they've said and done to me but deg gone it, that's in the past! And I want to leave it in the damned past! Things are SO much better now between my parents and I and I don't need hubby or anybody else to ruin it for me! Besides, they're not well and could leave this world at any moment so I just want to enjoy having them around for as long as I can but hubby won't let me! He keeps stirring the pot even when I've asked him not to! I just want bygones to be bygones and enjoy what we have NOW.... but I can't. I need hubby's help cleaning their house when we do it because it's a big house but now I'm going to have to do it alone because of his attitude which makes it all the more harder on me. Do you have anything like this going on in your family? Good Heavens! I sure hope NOT! If you do, how do you handle it?