When you love a dog
There is just something about people who really, honestly, deep-down love dogs. You have cat people. You have snake people. And you have dog people. I’m a dog people person. Sadly, with the recent divorce, being back in school and not being entirely sure where I’ll be living in a couple of months, my dogs are in “foster care”.
Echo is a 13-year-old Maltese. I’ve had her since she was a wee pup. When I say wee, I mean wee. She was 1.5 pounds when I got her. I used to carry her around in the pocket of my winter coat. I should find that old picture and post it. Cuuute. Anyway, she is currently living at my mom’s. I have stairs in this house and I’m often not home and the old lady (Echo, not mom) needs a little more stability. She’s loving life, though. I fed her amazing holistic fish-oil-based food. But my mother cooks for Echo. Cooks. For. Echo. Every day. Spoiled and blissed out, that dog.
Angel is the 14-year-old Greyhound we rescued from the dog tracks. What an amazing seetie. She is now living with a permanent foster family that the Greyhound Pets of America Senior Sanctuary of Florida found for Angel over in ZephyrHills. Almost as soon as the ex left, Angel began suffering emotionally form me not being home in the daytime like I had always been. She is the classic “velcro dog” and needs to be gazing at her beloved owner as often as possible. The Sanctuary found her a family with another Greyhound and a grandma that stays home all day, every day sitting with the dogs. How cool is that. As much as I love Angel and my daughter misses her, I think she is in a better home when it comes down to it.
And all of this to say that I found a cool new blog called Tip Tail. It’s mostly dog themed, with a dash of other life issue tossed in for good measure. Cynthia has 4 dogs. One is Angel, so we both have a dear Angel in our lives. She has cats, too …so she’s that rare breed who is both a dog and a cat person.
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