Pets are good therapy

One basset hound owner related that his dog was 10 years old and could hardly get around but did manage to climb her way to the top of the refrigerator to eat a cake and then sat there crying for someone to get her down!

Also, our poodle climbed onto the table and ate a stick of butter!

CLC ... deer poop - yuck!  After they eat it they want to come lick you!  Never fails.

My Sawyer favored kitty poop, could always tell by the flecks of litter around his nose, YUCK.  Sure did get me to keep a super clean litter box!!

Shortly after my marriage ended 16 years ago, I thought a dog was needed for my 2 young daughters and myself. Living in a small house, we decided on a little dog. However, we fell in love with a 5 mos old 50 lb gentle giant, Bailey, who grew to 130 lbs., and who I credit with healing our family.



Bailey is gone almost 4 years now. His "cousin" Ellie is with me now, a much smaller yellow lab and she is such a comfort.



Watches me and follows me all the time since all this started. She's a great foot warmer too. Thankfully she's easily amused since I can't walk her, she pulls and these darn TEs are a problem, and she gets carsick.



I only wish I could sleep so soundly!

We use covered liter boxes, two because we have two cats. We turn them toward the wall and the dogs leave them alone then. Nothing worse than the smell of cat poop on your dogs breath! 

We have four baby gates in the house to keep Stewie out of trouble. Latest one is at the bottom of the stairs to the second floor. He has now gotten on enough weight that he can't just go through the rungs of the railing and go on up. 

We went to the vets today for his pre neuter blood work. He weighs 40+ pounds now.  He is 7 and 1/2 months old. I worry a little that this may be too early but he is getting more dominant and I don't want to lose him in the woods looking for a female. The vet said it is fine. Thursday is the day. 

Awwwwwwww ...

Here is my best boy:

Momine - He knows he is special, magnificent.

Mister Oliver got 3 new toys for Christmas!  My aunt found one very similar to the one he had for years.  He would throw it up in the air and catch it - so cute.  It was a mouse in a Christmas stocking.  He played with it until there was nothing left!

My sister keeps a basket full of dog toys on the floor.  Her dogs have learned to take them out, place them all over the house but have yet learned to put them back!

Merry Christmas to all my sisters and their fur babies.

I am having problems attaching my babies snaps on here.  Can someone give me advice please.

What beautiful cats you ladies have acquired....they are all so furry and look very snuggly.  I got a German Shep from Hurricane Katrina and feel sorry for the people that lost him..He was already trained and does not wake me up in the morn to go outside like some folks say their dogs do that. He sleeps until I get up..cant believe it.  He is the best dog I ever had.  He is very sweet and does not bark at the mailman even but the mailman is deathly afraid of the dog. LOL.....got the dog for protection.  I live close to downtown and a lot of homeless come south for the winter..and they are not all bad people but cant be too careful these days. Know coming home to something furry and warm and loving will be good medicine after my bmx.  Fiance has promised to help me feed and clean the kennel for the doggy. I did see one photo on here of a kind of shizhu type dog and it was so cute,could have kissed that dog all day.

Thanks all, he is extremely sweet and very devoted. He is a Greek street mutt. My daughter had taken him home to give him a drink. Then she put him on the street again, but he disagreed, and sat on his behind, using his paw to knock on the front door of the building for an hour. He has stayed since.