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[beemerdons]

And here is good old Bear (Oso) laying right next to Papa Chuy as I type this. Bear will be 12 years old on March 1, the most lovable sweet Labrador Retriever of all time!

Aqui es El Jefe de Stanley Casa (Boss of the Stanley House!): Gary, our Tabby Cat. Gary sleeps 18 hours daily, but he's Hell on Wheels when he's awake: Real Killer!

Gary spends his awake hours killing things: Birds, lizards, snakes, bats, scorpions and attacks other cats. And torments poor old 100 lb. Beary Boy something fierce!!!

 

[Patriot]

Alley want get black fri Petsmart nylabones

Talked me into McD's double cheeseburger

gave her meat cheese only

 

[ahchiu]

Alley looks very content, almost food coma content

 

[airboss]

Yea, I have that problem too. Take the dog to Mickey D's. he gets the meat, I get the bun.

 

[Patriot]

posted on a local rescue FB wall:

The Fourth Day

by Martin Scot Kosins

If you ever loved an animal, there are three days in your life you will always remember.

The first day is a day, blessed with happiness, when you bring home your young new friend. You may have spent weeks deciding on a breed. You may have asked numerous opinions of many vets, or done long research in finding a breeder. Or, perhaps in a fleeting moment, you may have just chosen that silly looking mutt in a shelter ... simply because something in its eyes reached your heart.

But when you bring that chosen pet home, and watch it explore, and claim its special place in your hall or front room - and when you feel it brush against you for the first time - it instills a feeling of pure love you will carry with you through the many years to come.

The second day... will occur eight or nine or ten years later. It will be a day like any other. Routine and unexceptional. But, for a surprising instant, you will look at your longtime friend and see age where you once saw youth. You will see slow deliberate steps where you once saw energy. And you will see sleep where you once saw activity. So you will begin to adjust your friend's diet - and you may add a pill or two to her food. And you may feel a growing deep fear within yourself, which bodes of a coming emptiness. And you will feel this uneasy feeling, on and off, until

the third day finally arrives. And on this day - if your friend and God have not decided it for you, then you will be faced with making a decision of your own -on behalf of your lifelong friend, and with the guidance of your own deepest Spirit. But whichever way your friend eventually leaves you - you will feel as alone as a single star in the dark night sky.

If you are wise, you will let the tears flow as freely and as often as they must. And if you are typical, you will find that not many in your circle of family or human friends will be able to understand your grief, or comfort you. But if you are true to the love of the pet you cherished through the many joy filled years, you may find that a soul - a bit smaller in size than your own - seems to walk with you, at times, during the lonely days to come. And at moments when you least expect anything out of the ordinary to happen, you may feel something brush against your leg - very, very lightly. You will both reject it and embrace it, and it may confuse you. If you reject it, it will depress you. If you embrace it, it will deepen you. Either way, it will still be an ache. But there will be, I assure you,

a fourth day when - along with the memory of your pet - and piercing through the heaviness in your heart - there will come a realization that belongs only

to you. It will be as unique and strong as our relationship with each animal we have loved, and lost. This realization takes to form of a Living Love -It is the legacy our pets leave us when they go -And it is a gift we may keep with us as long as we live.

It is a Love which is ours alone -And until we ourselves leave, perhaps to join our Beloved Pets -It is a Love that we will always possess

 

[beemerdons]

Very Beautiful Patriot Mike, Thank You!

 

[BigPaz]

we have 2 "kids" at home...

the dog - Luna - mix between border collie and engergizer bunny.

the Cat - Lomas - Lomas was a gift from ~insert favorite diety~. here's her story...

i work in downtown albuquerque at the intersection of I-25 and Lomas blvd. Lomas is a main artery into downtown and is 3 lanes wide both directions. one morning, while outside enjoying a smoke, i could hear what i thought was a kitten. but i couldn't tell where from. a little while later, some of my co-workers came into the building carrying this tiny little creature. she was all alone in an empty lot in between all of the large buildings and the freeway. everyone fell in love with this lucky little kitten. if she had been out there much longer, the coyotes, feral dogs, or hawks would have had a snack of her. or the animal control would have taken her and she would be no more.

i got to take her home, due to the loss of a cat mere weeks earlier. but everyone here wanted to know how she was and how she was gettin along with Luna.

so i dedicated a website to the both of them and their antics.

Luna & Lomas

 

[NightShine]

We get so attached to our pets, our animal companions, those other Souls who live with us.

Perhaps never more so that these "pets" that Radman showed us a few years back...

 

[Patriot]

playing with toys is so exhausting

 

[MEM]

we have 2 "kids" at home...

the dog - Luna - mix between border collie and engergizer bunny.

the Cat - Lomas - Lomas was a gift from ~insert favorite diety~. here's her story...

i work in downtown albuquerque at the intersection of I-25 and Lomas blvd. Lomas is a main artery into downtown and is 3 lanes wide both directions. one morning, while outside enjoying a smoke, i could hear what i thought was a kitten. but i couldn't tell where from. a little while later, some of my co-workers came into the building carrying this tiny little creature. she was all alone in an empty lot in between all of the large buildings and the freeway. everyone fell in love with this lucky little kitten. if she had been out there much longer, the coyotes, feral dogs, or hawks would have had a snack of her. or the animal control would have taken her and she would be no more.

i got to take her home, due to the loss of a cat mere weeks earlier. but everyone here wanted to know how she was and how she was gettin along with Luna.

so i dedicated a website to the both of them and their antics.

Luna & Lomas

What lucky critters! Lomas is adorable - she'll be a beautiful girl

I have (12.5-year old) Snickers...

...(5-yo) Squirrel ....

....and 11.5-yo Molly...

I lost my beloved Gracy (12.5) last month to hemangiosarcoma (there's no 'smiley' sad enough for this)

 

[Patriot]

I lost my beloved Gracy (12.5) last month to hemangiosarcoma (there's no 'smiley' sad enough for this)

The Rainbow Bridge

inspired by a Norse legend

By the edge of a woods, at the foot of a hill, is a lush, green meadow where time stands still.

... Where the friends of man and woman do run, when their time on earth is over and done.

For here, between this world and the next, is a place where each beloved creature finds rest.

On this golden land, they wait and they play, till the Rainbow Bridge they cross over one day.

No more do they suffer, in pain or in sadness, for here they are whole, their lives filled with gladness.

Their limbs are restored, their health renewed, their bodies have healed, with strength imbued.

They romp through the grass, without even a care, until one day they start, and sniff at the air.

All ears prick forward, eyes dart front and back, then all of a sudden, one breaks from the pack.

For just at that instant, their eyes have met; together again, both person and pet.

So they run to each other, these friends from long past, the time of their parting is over at last.

The sadness they felt while they were apart, has turned into joy once more in each heart.

They embrace with a love that will last forever, and then, side-by-side, they cross over… together.

In Memory of Those We Loved a Lifetime

 

[Patriot]

Alley Oop is pretty smart for a basset !!!

 

[Neil San Diego]

Tuscan, the Wonder Dog:

 

[DennisJ]

Two registered Bengal Cats. Ming is a Brown Spotted Bengal and Ronni (the little female) is a Chocolate Swirl.

 

[MEM]

Two registered Bengal Cats. Ming is a Brown Spotted Bengal and Ronni (the little female) is a Chocolate Swirl.

Photos !!!

 

[beemerdons]

As many of you know The Stanley Boys 12 year old blonde Labrador Retriever "Bear" died while we were attending NAFO/CFR 2012 up in Canada, we're still heartbroken. But here's what is going to ease our pain, out of the seven pups below is a male Labbie that will be our new companion. We get to take him home on October 15 and we are so damn excited: WE LOVE DOGGIES!

 

[dj bill]

we just got a lab puppy thursday.

 

[MCML]

Some of you know where I stand on the subject of Labradors in general and Yellow Labs in particular. Bill and Don, please give your pups a double ear rub for me.

 

[dj bill]

duke the pom

eva our year old lab

and the newest yellow lab 8 weeks old

 

[beemerdons]

Great photo dj bill, I am a total sucker for yellow Labrador Retriever puppies!