Bee's Guest House

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Lori, I hope your dog is as happy as my Biscuit is. He escaped from someone and was on the run for a week before getting caught by animal control. He is so much fun and we love him, and he sleeps in our bed with us....he comes under the covers with me if he gets cold! He was obviously loved by his first owners and there was an effort made to find them....but maybe he ran too many miles, or maybe someone picked him up and he escaped from a car...who knows. I am just telling you this so you can imagine your Maggie warm and well-fed and completely loved.

 

[Beekissed]

Lori, I couldn't imagine one of mine being missing and not knowing what had happened to them....that is just the worst. Of course, we all think no one could ever take care of our animals as well as we can, don't we?

As a nurse, I've always felt the same way....no one could take care of my patients like I can, but I'm sure that is just because we feel a personal connection with these creatures in our care.

I often wonder how my two most wonderful dogs, Jim and Lucy, came to be without owners...they were fully trained and the most intelligent, sweet, beautiful dogs. How did they get to be with the worthless people who had adopted them and then didn't want them?

No matter, though, because they found me and I them and it all worked out that we had love. We had such a love!

Lori, maybe your Maggie is lying on a couch somewhere this morning, cuddled up to some young child and being petted by a great new mom. Maybe they are wondering just where this wonderful animal came from and how in the world did she find her way to their house...there to be such a blessing to that family.

Only God knows.

Jake now sits beside me....I couldn't take him staring a hole into the back door, tensed and ready. He is grieving in his own special way....unable to sit, stand, lay...just pacing and whining.

I would dearly LOVE to pick up The Mom and go traipsing this country and meeting all you lovely people! Wouldn't that be a gas? Just travelling, talking, eating good foods, sleeping in hotels or under the stars....I really want to do this.

I had planned to take a month off of work next spring. Lucy and I were going to drive across the country from beach to beach.

Now? I'm not sure. Jake couldn't sit still that long and he gets car sick. Who knows? Maybe Dewley or Tuesday will be old enough to take a sabbatical with me....The Mom doesn't like to travel that much but has volunteered to take care of all my other dependents while I do so.

 

[Farmfresh]

I'll fluff up the futon!

 

[Beekissed]

You think I'm kidding??? You just may find yourself a houseguest!!!

 

[Dace]

 

[Farmfresh]

Personally I am hoping you are NOT!

I would love to have you visit for a few days! It ain't pretty (I aint either ) but it has room for a friend.

 

[justusnak]

Oh Bee, I am so sorry. Letting one go is never easy. My Golden retriever, Sabre was like a child to me. 16 years we had him in our lives...16 wonderfull years. Taking him for his "last car ride" was the hardest thing I have ever had to do, other than burrying my son. Jake will be ok, once he lets the pups warm up to him. He has you for a wonderfull mom, and you two will comfort each other.
As for your sabbatical....come to Indiana! Heck, lately I have had so many house guests, it will be lonely NOT haveing someone here!
I think it would be a great experience...and have talked abnout doing the very same thing..one day..but then..reality hit me in the face..and I realized, THAT will never happen. So, come to Indiana...let me live through your travels!

 

[Beekissed]

Yes...one day never really happens. I've found that out to be true for all good things and invariably untrue for all bad things...they actually do come one day.

Indiana is definitely doable, as my fave Aunt Betty lives there also.

Never fear...if I don't get to travel and see you all in this life, most definitely in the next!!! And I won't have to worry "if my car will make it".

 

[FarmerDenise]

I truly think it would be great fun to go visiting and be visited. With you guys, I don't mind that my house is a mess. I figure you'd know that I am just too busy to keep it neat and tidy. I would rather visit with friends and my family, than worry about a tidy house.
At the same time I would love to visit everyone. Oh well , we can dream...

Lori, I guess I should tell you also, that one of my favorite dogs, was one that DD found wandering the streets. She was a Norbottenspitz. A very expensive breed and obviously well cared for. Her nails were trimmed, she was well manered. DD was painting a mural in a nearby town and this little dog came around begging for food. So one day, according to my then 17 year old DD, she opened the car to the truck and the dog jumped in and she brought it home. I said she needed to look for it's righful owner, I wasn't going to keep the dog. Long story short, she ended up my faithful companion and protector of my chickens for many years. I just wished her original owners could have known that she was loved and well cared for.

 

[murphysranch]

I've missed this thread, and maybe its OK until now that I'm reading it. I've got tears literally running down my cheeks at noontime. Good thing DH is watching football.

I'm so sad for you Bee. But I've done that too, and it was hard to let go of their bodies after they passed. Make sure that Lucy is buried deep enough. My puppy Driver, who was accidentally run over by my DH last March, was buried deep, with two boulders on top. Just a month ago, in early October, something dug him up, and scattered the plastic bag and his bones all over our property. Of course, my dogs had to roll in it, and for two days I was finding bones. I sobbed all over again.

Lucy will be waiting for her mama, someday soon!