DailyStrength Pet Appreciation Month 2011 Community Group
Our pets give so much and ask for so little in return. This group is a place to share your pet stories, photos, and videos with other pet-loving Members on DailyStrength. Feel free to invite anyone who has a wonderful pet story to share!
Hi everyone, I have RSD aka CRPS with lots of other chronic conditions which the end results are I'm permanently disabled and in a lot of pain 24/7. I have 4 pets right now.
I love my animals, always have! Now they help me find humor, peace and acceptance on a daily basis. In December I had to put down my 10 year old Sheppard mix (Sedona) due to senility, chronic pain and starting to bite suddenly. I still have a male chow chow who's just turned 8 years old (Mackenzie), and two female cats(Nala and Carly), all three are very mellow and perfectly happy to just lay around with me when I'm in pain.
So my husband and I decided to get another puppy. That was two weeks ago. I forgot how much work it is to raise a puppy; babies take so much time and energy! Well she's got me out of bed and off the couch and interacting more with life. This was exactly what I needed to happen. The first thing my husband said the day after she came home was she sure got the house hold up earlier and moving! There for awhile I had given up on moving and fighting the pain to keep active. Tiger, our new boxer puppy, has given me the needed reason to get up and move. My oldest daughter decided to adopt one of Tiger's sister's, so in reality we have two baby boxers running around the house, talk about double trouble when they are together!
Tiger is a joy to have and an extreme handful right now. Brought her home at 6 weeks, she's now about 9 weeks old and sadly sick, has to go to the vet tomorrow, poor baby has a raging Urinary tract infection.(common in female puppies). So off to the vet for some needed antibiotics. Sure put the puppy house training backwards...can't wait to get it going better- consuming a huge amount of paper towels right now!
Anyway look for the pics of Tiger in the photos, I'll post a few tonight (I'm taking pictures daily, they grow so fast and change so much!) Hopefully soon I'll get pics up of the other three :)
I'm glad I found this spot to share my love of my animals and how they help me with others, as well as enjoying reading all of your stories and seeing your pictures.
Happy Spring!!
Mountainmom
I love my animals, always have! Now they help me find humor, peace and acceptance on a daily basis. In December I had to put down my 10 year old Sheppard mix (Sedona) due to senility, chronic pain and starting to bite suddenly. I still have a male chow chow who's just turned 8 years old (Mackenzie), and two female cats(Nala and Carly), all three are very mellow and perfectly happy to just lay around with me when I'm in pain.
So my husband and I decided to get another puppy. That was two weeks ago. I forgot how much work it is to raise a puppy; babies take so much time and energy! Well she's got me out of bed and off the couch and interacting more with life. This was exactly what I needed to happen. The first thing my husband said the day after she came home was she sure got the house hold up earlier and moving! There for awhile I had given up on moving and fighting the pain to keep active. Tiger, our new boxer puppy, has given me the needed reason to get up and move. My oldest daughter decided to adopt one of Tiger's sister's, so in reality we have two baby boxers running around the house, talk about double trouble when they are together!
Tiger is a joy to have and an extreme handful right now. Brought her home at 6 weeks, she's now about 9 weeks old and sadly sick, has to go to the vet tomorrow, poor baby has a raging Urinary tract infection.(common in female puppies). So off to the vet for some needed antibiotics. Sure put the puppy house training backwards...can't wait to get it going better- consuming a huge amount of paper towels right now!
Anyway look for the pics of Tiger in the photos, I'll post a few tonight (I'm taking pictures daily, they grow so fast and change so much!) Hopefully soon I'll get pics up of the other three :)
I'm glad I found this spot to share my love of my animals and how they help me with others, as well as enjoying reading all of your stories and seeing your pictures.
Happy Spring!!
Mountainmom
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I love how the puppies have energised your household and babby boxes are such engaging creatures - wishing you many years of happiness with your "babies".
deleted_user
Baby boxes! What was I thinking! LOL! Baby boxers!
mountainmom
Sometimes I wish the "babies" would stay in a box-lol! They are very busy when together and almost more than I can handle. Tiger alone really pushes me to the limit to keep up with. She slowed down some due to UTI but will be feeling better soon- look out world! (or atleast my world she will rock)
Boxerlover
Oh my goodness how precious! They are too adorable! I have been bugging my husband with wanting a puppy but he is not ready yet and we have our hands full with 2. But they are so cute!!
mountainmom
Our getting a puppy was exactly like thinking about another child, one moment one of us would look online for litters of boxers, but the other one would say, no not right now, not ready etc...then one day I saw a really cute litter for sale and showed my husband and even though he'd just snapped at me the night before that we really didn't need a puppy right now he decided to go look with me....and bam we have a new baby boxer!
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