[backhoe]

I just want to tell everybody how much their kind wishes mean to me and Miss Emily.

Mayhap we are fools, but we adopted a shelter puppy today:

Cole, the canine Circular Saw:

As Miss Emily noted:

Backhoe and I are the proud parents of a baby boy named Cole. He is a part collie puppy and so far has:

rearranged most of our throw rugs
stolen a pair of Backho’e shoes
discovered that heaters are hot
had diarrhea twice
thrown up once
scared the daylights out of our cockatiel
tried to eat my heating pad
stolen my foot massager

and he’s only been here an hour and a half.

The house is no longer too quiet.
Puppies do sleep, don’t they?????

And he steals shoes, and the mechanic's rag I habitually keep in my hip pocket...

[Tijeras_Slim]

Good for you my FRiend.

[fanfan]

LOL! I have 3 words for you my good FRiend.....

The Dog Whisperer

[windchime]

I'm so sorry for your loss of Taffy. Prayers for comfort and remembering the good times with her.

My last canine baby died from cancer when she was 13 years old. She was so destructive as a pup that a frequent comment (in jest, of course) was, "I'd give her away, but don't know anyone I dislike that much".

Congratulations to you and Miss Emily on the arrival of Cole, the canine Circular Saw. I know he'll provide as much love and loyalty as my 'wild child' did.

[PhilDragoo]

My smarter half was a thousand miles away night-nursing for the grandson who has recently left us when our cat of twenty-four (24) years died in my arms, having enjoyed as much as she could stand.

After all of that good time followed by the accelerating suffering she gave it up and I buried her in our grape arbor where the vinca flourished.

And shortly thereafter there appeared under my truck a ghost white young cat waiting for me to pick him up so he could follow us around from room to room, to see us off and see us back, and give us a talkative report.

We all keep the faith and the interest on it all is priceless.

My older brother the engineer told his wife they would not have another dog after they lost theirs to cancer after so many years.

But I am not about to deny us the full catastrophe.

And your dog looks in the pictures very like my friend Norm's which went blind yet was his constant companion. Delilah went on ahead and Norm followed a couple of years after playing his guitar in his chair.

Your puppy keeps that wonderful wheel turning for you.

Happy trails, happy tails.

[piasa]

Puppies do sleep, don’t they?????

No... they just look like it sometimes to fool you into thinking they're not up to anything and you can go to bed.

Anybody want a three-legged coon-hunting wonder dog that looks like a cross between an English bulldog and a yellow lab that grew up in Chernnobl?