One of my pups is named Millie. She's an odd looking girl - half Chow and half Boxer - she looks like no other dog I've ever seen.
When I keep the dogs in the house, I open the window so that my pups can "communicate with the dogs that walk by on the path behind my yard. There is a window sill just high enough for Millie to rest her head on and wait for a "visiting" dog to come by. Today Millie put a pig ear up on the window sill while she rested her head - I assume to entice more "visitors" to come on by. That was SO cute to see her waiting there with her pig ear......she kept rearranging the ear so that it was just right.....don't you just love them?
Before I got my first rescue - a big wonderful black shepherd - I had only a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. Obviously she did not offer much in the way of protection but she'd bark her little heart out if she thought something was wrong. Somehow that made me feel better.
My lil' furpal is feline. He is my "pup" in when i come home, or in from just outside "too long" (according to him somehow) he will meet me mewing and then flop over on his back for a belly rub. :) It's just so darn cute, as he's really a fairly aloof fellow. Not a lap cat!
I've tried to convince him that an Irish Wolfhound is pretty much the same thing as the pony he keeps bugging me for, but he just won't buy it.
If i could have a dog, that's the kind i would want to have. :)
Glad to be among peeps who appreciate the finer pts. of our fur pals. They add so much more facets to life...
1. My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years. Any
separation from you will be painful remember
that before you get me.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
3. Place your trust in me- it is crucial to my well
being.
4. Do not be angry at me for long, and do not lock
me up as punishment.
5. You have your work, your entertainment,and your friends.
I only have you.
6. Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don't understands your words,
I understand your voice when it is speaking to me.
7. Be aware that how ever you treat me, I will never forget.
8. Remember before you hit me that I have teeth that could
easily hurt you, but I choose not to bite you because I
love you.
9. Before you scold me for being uncooperative,obstinate,or lazy,
ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I
might not be getting the right food, or I have been out to
long, or my heart is getting to old and weak.
10. Take care of me when I get old; you too will grow old. Go
with me on difficult journeys. Never say: "I cannot bear to
watch" or "Let it happen in my absence." Everything
is easier for me if you are there, even my death.
Remember that I love you.
Greg - thank you for posting that. We truly do need to be with them - holding them when they move on to the next phase of their existence. i would not give up that experience for anything. I held my shepherd, Heinz, very tight when the doctor injected him - I held him so tight that the doctor had to finally tell me to let go - that my boy, Heinz, was gone.
Before I got my first rescue - a big wonderful black shepherd - I had only a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. Obviously she did not offer much in the way of protection but she'd bark her little heart out if she thought something was wrong. Somehow that made me feel better.
I've tried to convince him that an Irish Wolfhound is pretty much the same thing as the pony he keeps bugging me for, but he just won't buy it.
If i could have a dog, that's the kind i would want to have. :)
Glad to be among peeps who appreciate the finer pts. of our fur pals. They add so much more facets to life...
{{hugz}}
Cheerz!
Dog Ten Commandments
1. My life is likely to last 10 to 15 years. Any
separation from you will be painful remember
that before you get me.
2. Give me time to understand what you want of me.
3. Place your trust in me- it is crucial to my well
being.
4. Do not be angry at me for long, and do not lock
me up as punishment.
5. You have your work, your entertainment,and your friends.
I only have you.
6. Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don't understands your words,
I understand your voice when it is speaking to me.
7. Be aware that how ever you treat me, I will never forget.
8. Remember before you hit me that I have teeth that could
easily hurt you, but I choose not to bite you because I
love you.
9. Before you scold me for being uncooperative,obstinate,or lazy,
ask yourself if something might be bothering me. Perhaps I
might not be getting the right food, or I have been out to
long, or my heart is getting to old and weak.
10. Take care of me when I get old; you too will grow old. Go
with me on difficult journeys. Never say: "I cannot bear to
watch" or "Let it happen in my absence." Everything
is easier for me if you are there, even my death.
Remember that I love you.
Cheerz!
I'll never forget that day.