Fran, I just loved your story. I adopted my dog Patch 2 weeks after Laika died. He patched my heart.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahil Gibran
His foster mom named him Patch. I told her I would change it and she was hurt. She said "It's his name and he likes it." I wanted to change it because it sounded like a kindergarten named him. LOL Over the course of a week I tried on many names for him but nothing else would stick. Finally I conceded that Patch truly is his name and he truly does like it. Then I realized that he had already patched my heart.
This makes me think of Patch Adams.
Phil Berggren, dx 2003
This photo was emailed to me by a friend, and it clearly shows why you have to have eyes in the back of your head when you have a young animal around. the home.
Jim
Bother the photo has not transferred correctly.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahil Gibran
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Cats do get themselves into some intersting positions.
Jim
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahil Gibran
They say that people grow to look like their pet, but this seems to be taking things too far.
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Jim
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. Kahil Gibran
I love my dogs, they are at times my only friends. We have three babies, my husband and I couldn't have any children. Two of which are huge dogs, mastiff and boxer mix, the other one is a mix of golden retriever and maybe chow. This little one came up our driveway two days after getting the mastiff litter mates (Jack and Jill), so we kept him and named him Buddy. Buddy is really a bold dog who does not get along with the male mastiff, so we keep them separated,(which is hard). We just had an incident with him getting into a fight with the mastiff and it ended up after my husband and I tried to separate them that my husband got bite, by Buddy. We had to take him to the ER where he got 11 stitches in his hand. Everybody wants us have him put down, but we can't stand to do that because he is part of the family. So I guess, we will just have to work with him somemore or call in Cesar Manlan.
Jana
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