Therapy Dog Needs Therapist

What is it with me?  Or is it them?  Mom and Dad went to play golf yesterday and left me guarding the house.  I did a pretty good job, I thought.  Even though Mom left the food cabinet door wide open:

I didn't let anybody in.  Not the coyotes, not the javelinas, not even the squirrel that showed up the other day.  Did I tell you about that?  

We hardly have any squirrels around here.  In fact I would have said we have no squirrels.  Not like my friends in St. Louis where there are tons of squirrels and I chase 'em and they run up trees, so I don't chase 'em anymore.  It's too frustrating.  But I never saw a squirrel in Scottsdale.  (Like that alliteration?  S-quirrel in S-cottsdale?  S-cottsdale S-quirrel? Sorry.)  Not until two days ago, when one ran across our back wall, just like he belonged there.

Which he didn't, 'cuz that's BobCat's wall!  Am I digressing again?  I think so.  Anyway, I didn't let any of the critters get any food out of the wide open cabinet.

But then I was looking over Dad's papers on the coffee table and I saw a bill for his insurance.  I know how he hates to pay bills, so I took it with me to the bedroom and proceeded to shred it on the bed. 

 If I shred it, he can't pay it, right?  So I thought I was doing him a BIG FAVOR.

But NO.  They came home and I got in trouble for tearing up the Insurance bill.  Even Mom yelled at me.  It wasn't fun.  They were mad. So I got mad.  Then I got even.  I refused to sleep on the bed last night.  See who's happy now!

I don't know.  Is it me?  Do I need Dogological help?

Love and pouts,

G

You need to click on Rainbow Bridge

I told Mom no one would understand that just because a word is blue, that you're supposed to click on it to take you to another place.  But if you click on the blue "Rainbow Bridge" in the blog post, it will take  you to Rainbow Bridge and you won't be as sad anymore.


I need to tell you about a friend of mine.  Her name is Maddie.  I don't have a picture of her, but she looks like this:

Maddie looks like a puppy, but she was really old.  When I first met her in 2014 she was 12 years old.  She liked me right away.   She called me her boyfriend.  She liked Mom a lot too, and sometimes I just had to go break it up 'cuz she would be nuzzling MY mom and ignoring me. 

Lots of times, when we walked around people would say that I looked like Maddie.  We both have black noses, but I didn't think we looked much alike.

These past few months, Maddie was getting smaller and smaller.  She still liked to come talk to me when we would see her, but she was having a really hard time walking.  I could tell she had lost a lot of weight. 

Then yesterday, we saw Maddie's mom without Maddie.  She said that Maddie had given up the ghost and she was really sad.  I could tell mom was really sad too.  We were all sad.  I'll miss Maddie.  I hope I see her when we all go to the Rainbow Bridge.  Mom told me about the Rainbow Bridge.  She says that's where my brothers are and that one day, we will all go to the Rainbow Bridge and play together.  I think that sounds nice.  I hope Maddie is having a good time there.

But, I'm still sad.

I'll be looking for you, Maddie.   

Love, Your G

PS.  If you click on the blue "Rainbow Bridge", it will take you there and make you feel better.  G