I have the old German Shepherd in tonight, because it's too cold and windy, and I can feel his hipbones and his backbone and his ribs protruding. He gets skinnier by the day and - although I've started feeding him twice a day inste
ad of just once, he doesn't improve. I just worry with the unfinished wood floors and the fact that he's become incontinent of late.
He is a rescue dog - or so I'd like to think - that my daughter brought home from Ace Hardware two years ago when he either ran away from home or was abandoned. Could this all-of-a-sudden be worms? He's asleep now, along with all five cats, two cockatiels, one parakeet and one desert tortoise. If I tippy-toe, I'll get some sleep myself. It's just that I'll go to sleep wondering what I can do to make him comfortable. I have no way to get a 'house' for him, even though I've tried. He's just too big - even in his skinny state. In a message dated 10/10/2008 7:58:17 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, erthnsky AT bellsouth.net writes:
Bunjov AT aol.com wrote:
I was five and a half, and he was four and a half, and we were partners.Toycars and little dirt roads under our dining room window. Huntingspiders.Bird-watching with a pair of worn-out binoculars. Hiding up under theboxcarsand pretending we were hoboes. Oh, that's the life for me! Getting into trouble for firing up the back yard incinerator at 4 a.m. on a Saturdaymorning andstealing our mother's potatoes just to see if we could bake one in thecoalsand eat it.
That sounds wonderful! I am glad you had such a great friend.
Speaking of books and boxcars, did anyone ever read _The Boxcar Children_ when they were kids? I loved those books, fantasized about living that way. Maybe they influenced my homesteading desires.
My mother and I, several years later, when I was a teenager, were takingtheLong Beach 'red train' and I was so looking forward to finding Eddieagain.But we happened to pick up a local paper at one of the stops,and of theleadarticles told of how Eddie had been horribly maimed in an auto accident.
I don't know where he is today.
You should find him. You should tell him what you just told me/us. People live to hear things like that. It's real and powerful. You should find him now.
Bev
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