Pets are good therapy

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited December 2011
    i just LOVE it when THEY pick US.. had aan obisian cat years ago; with not so DH then; she was on the concrete when we ppured the foundation for our house.. and stayed, over 15 yrs, and 2 more houses!!she was loved, and she loved us well....merry christmas is finally done here.. im in a turkey induced coma. but walking around...3jays
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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited December 2011

    3jays, you are exactly right, lol.

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited December 2011
    gonna  try to call you, Marybe.. gotta get some sleep first, lol.. hope all is well. haven't heard a word from Ya!!!.....3jays
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited December 2011
    And of course I saw dogs on my trip....the one had two different colors of eyes....a brown one and a blue one. 
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  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 3,596
    edited December 2011

    Isn't it funny ... I can remember every animal I meet which is how I recognize their owner!

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  • karen333
    karen333 Member Posts: 3,697
    edited December 2011

    Had a Siberian husky who had one blue eye and one brown, her name was Sasha, she absolutely loved Western New York winters.  She just dove into snowdrifts. 

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited December 2011

    we call my FIL a husky now.. he had an eye replaced from a cadever this past year.. it was brown, he had peircing blue eyes.. they can do wonderful things these days!!!it IS disconcerting when you first see him, though.. never saw anything like it, except in a Husky, before...

     glad to see your back, and ok marybe.. still resting from my party experience.......3jays

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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited December 2011

    Marybe is getting her tumor markers soon. We were sort of joking around and BarbE suggested we have a lottery, I chimed in a raffle with the prize being the satisfaction of winning. I wagered that Marybe's numbers would be under 6000.

    Then I just decided to go make a BCO donation regardless and now, so I did. It is easy the link is right at the top of the page on the right side, just scroll up. So, as at any board meeting where one is absent, Marybe named me in charge of spreading the word about this so we might get a nice pool of donations going for BCO which has done so much for so many of us.

    It is tax dedutible too and I did donate in honor of Marybe but didn't request she be notified, she might get a big head ya know. Haha

    Here is what Marybe wrote on her thread.

    "Just thought of this....maybe you can spread the word of the contest to some of the other threads, I don't know about honoring me so much because believe me, I am really no one special, BUT wouldn't it be great to raise a bunch of money for BCO since it has given so much to us!? Also, I think you can use it as a tax deduction."

    Thanks for reading, join us if you wish.

    Ginger

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2011

    http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7390631n

    Man's best friend key to cancer cure? Check this out

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  • kmccraw423
    kmccraw423 Member Posts: 3,596
    edited December 2011

    It took a dog to help find the cure?   I loved the piece you referenced and the dog, of course!  Dogs are so wonderful.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited December 2011

    I know right? If they can cure a dog they can cure us, just a matter of getting through the government red tape and keeping the drug companies making billions on chemo  from suppressing it.

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012
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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited January 2012
    CinderCinderA year ago today I picked up my puppy from the petfinders van at a park n ride parking lot in CT. She, of course, doesn't look like this anymore (now 55 lbs and high energy lab/boxer mix). She has been such a blessing to me this year. Getting me out of the house everyday for a walk in the woods or to the dog park or the beach. She was my reason to get out of bed after my father passed away in March and now again a reason to pay attention to what is going on outside of my body. Pets are good therapy and so are all of you!
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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited January 2012

    Well guess I will have to work on how to post pictures It shows up on my reply but not on the board. It will have to be later cause I am going to walk the dog on the beach. Sorry for taking up space. It really is a cute picture :(

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    Mac,   are your pics in photobucket?  I could not get mine to post until I put them there and then I was able to copy and paste them.   Somewhere on this thread I posted details.....I took me a long time to get the hang of it, but a few of the women were patient with me and walked me through it.  I never could get it to work by clicking on that tree....had to minimize, click on pic, copy, minimize that then go back to BCO page, and paste it. 

    Have you been in a hot air balloon or do you just have a pic of one as your avitar?....that used to be my dream. 

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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012

    Mine too Marybe.  DH managed to go on one one time when he helped a friend move to AZ but I had to stay home and work so didn't get the chance.  Was a bit jealous.

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited January 2012

    Marybe and Chabba, I did go up in a hot air balloon! Just in Nov around my birthday. I had my annual mammo in Oct. then planned a trip to CO to see my DD, they called me back for a 2nd mammo and I said I was sorry but I was headed off to CO and set up an appt for when I got back mid Nov. (they weren't real pleased, but so what). I had a blast in CO. My daughter is 24 and has been living at the base of Beavercreek Mt for a year. She just packed her bags last Nov and moved to where friends from college were living. Anyway I said what is fun to do out there cause I was there before ski season. So I splurged and we took a hot air balloon ride. it was beautiful! Very peaceful, you ride with the wind, alot like sailing in a boat. It had snowed so the landscape was spectacular. Now here is the funny part. The woman of the couple that ran the balloon tour company watches the Today show everyday. So she had printed out a picture of  Matt Lauer from the website. They were doing a promo for Where in the World is flat Matt. So flat Matt went with us on this ride. She had pasted him to a flat stick and drawn on a hat and scarf. We took lots of pictures.  A few days later we made the Today show website. That is my 5 minutes of fame. It is a great memory for my DD and I. Then I came home had the 2nd mammo and the rest has been a roller coaster ride. I am so glad that I followed thru with my plans, cause I asked my BS when I could plan my next vacation and she said I could plan it just not buy any tickets yet. So I am dreaming of a beach somewhere ...........

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

      That is a great story and I am so glad you got to do it.....sounds as if it was well worth it.

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  • macatacmv
    macatacmv Member Posts: 1,386
    edited January 2012
    macmullen_puppy_female_1bAnother try for pic of Cinder
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  • chabba
    chabba Member Posts: 5,065
    edited January 2012

    aaaawwwww, I can see this one and he's cute.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012

    Oh, I am so glad it came through.....Cinder is darling. 

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited January 2012
    glad you got cinder on!!!he's a charmer...
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  • Gingerbrew
    Gingerbrew Member Posts: 2,859
    edited January 2012

    Cinder is a real cutie! 

    Thanks for the picture.

    GInger

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  • Momine
    Momine Member Posts: 7,859
    edited January 2012

    Oh dear, good thing Cinder is not in my neighborhood or might have to abduct her.

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  • Merilee
    Merilee Member Posts: 3,047
    edited January 2012

    Oh my, what a cutie pie

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  • CLC
    CLC Member Posts: 1,531
    edited January 2012

    Cinder is adorable...makes you just want to kiss that little nose...

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  • kingjr66
    kingjr66 Member Posts: 764
    edited January 2012

    Hello Marybe:  I'm new to your topic.  As you can see from my pic, this is my Sonny.  He is named for the son I never had.  I have no children, but he is human in so many ways.  He's an old boy now, 19 years but in very, very good health.  He's my inspiration since he's going to live probably way beyond the life expectancy of a feline.  My mom had 2 cats, a mother and daughter, that lived to be 23 and 27 hears old.  They were so loved and I think that is the key to keeping them for so long.  Of course my Sonny will surpass their ages.  My Sonny can tell time.  You tell him a time when he can eat and he's there to get you at that time, whether am or pm. Sometimes he's 5 minutes early or late, but he knows that's the time you told him.  Not sure how he does it.  He also communicates rather well with different types of meows.  He has his meow for food, clean my box (especially that one, he's very modest and clean), let's play, get up for work.  Each one very unigue and different from the other.  His happy you're are home one while he sits in an open window is a real bomb.  He is so loud that if anyone is in the parking lot where I live they will stop to see why the kitty in the window is in distress.  I tell them it's just my cat welcoming me home and to hurry up and get in here to pet me.  He loves to give hugs and kisses and will get right up to your face to do so.  He's just the best and I tell him so every day.

    Thanks for letting me share my boy with you all.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited January 2012
       I LOVE Sonny.  Thank you for sharing him with us.  I still have the three dogs, but let me tell you I sure do miss my George.  We were never sure how old he was since he had two homes before me, but I know he was less than 10 and that is not very old for a cat....whatever, his life with me was way to short.  I had him for a little less than 5 yrs and never thought I would become so attached to a cat, but I did.   He used to talk to me a lot.  I think that he must have been in a fire in his early years because he would become very upset if I burned anything at all in the kitchen or even if there was smoke after putting out candles.....he would just meeeow, yeerow, merrouw  and would go and on until I had open a widow and let all the smoke or smell clear out.  He had the sweetest face with that little black nose......if I ever get another cat, I want one with a black nose.   Although if those people up the street move and leave that cat they claim won't come inside, I am going to try to coax her to come up to my place and at least live in a house on my porch.     Here he is in a cardboard box....he loved boxes.
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  • kingjr66
    kingjr66 Member Posts: 764
    edited January 2012

    Sonny was actually my neighbors cat.  He was about a year old when he started coming to my yard to sit with me when I was doing my gardening or with my husband when he was building a huge doll house for his nieces.  The house was so big that sonny would lay in one of the rooms while my husband worked.  We would bring him in at night when he was left outside by the neighbor in the dead of winter.  Started to feed him every day and then one day he came to me and I let him in and he was bleeding.  He had been shot by another neighbor a block over (a cop too with 2 huge dogs) and I brought him to vet to fix him up.  I went to my neighbor (one who owned the cat) that Sonny was my cat now unless he wanted to pay me the $500 I paid to the vet.  He did not even care and Sonny never went back to him and has been with us since. 

    Oh, I called the cops on the cop and the vet went to the newspaper.

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  • kingjr66
    kingjr66 Member Posts: 764
    edited January 2012

    All of us that give a loving home to our beloved friends are the lucky ones.

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