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Budwick · 70-79, M
Bumbles - Full disclosure - I am a dog person. My wife and I have gone through several sets of pups. Of course it's heartbreaking when one of them passes. It's lie losing a family member.
A couple summers ago we lost three pups in the span of a few weeks. Disease, old age compounded with broken heart of losing first one, and fatal injury. It was devastating. The only thing to mend our broken hearts was to get another dog to love. That was Larry, the smaller of the two pictured. We fostered for a while - he was recovering from heartworm. Thinking of the day he came home makes me teary eyed. A lot of emotion - but that little fuzzball brought warmth and laughter and love back into our home. A few weeks later we went back to the shelter to get a pal for Larry. We named him Curly. The two have been inseparable. All of the happy, crazy stuff one hopes for from having dogs came to us immediately.
I don't know if dogs actually are capable of appreciation - you know that we brought them to their forever home. But they have endless zoomies around the yard - which they could not do in the shelter. In the evening when we settle down for family time, they are all over us showering us with all the love we could ask for.
Bumbles - get your dog - or two. Do it today. Seriously, Do it.
A couple summers ago we lost three pups in the span of a few weeks. Disease, old age compounded with broken heart of losing first one, and fatal injury. It was devastating. The only thing to mend our broken hearts was to get another dog to love. That was Larry, the smaller of the two pictured. We fostered for a while - he was recovering from heartworm. Thinking of the day he came home makes me teary eyed. A lot of emotion - but that little fuzzball brought warmth and laughter and love back into our home. A few weeks later we went back to the shelter to get a pal for Larry. We named him Curly. The two have been inseparable. All of the happy, crazy stuff one hopes for from having dogs came to us immediately.
I don't know if dogs actually are capable of appreciation - you know that we brought them to their forever home. But they have endless zoomies around the yard - which they could not do in the shelter. In the evening when we settle down for family time, they are all over us showering us with all the love we could ask for.
Bumbles - get your dog - or two. Do it today. Seriously, Do it.
