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Daisy's Doodles

I am safe and loved, at the Rainbow Bridge

Hi there, everyone on Earth! I have been here for about a week with my sister (whom I never met while on Earth) Faccia Bella. She was here to greet me and introduce me to everyone. I was so afraid of so many things when I was there with you, but since I came here, I can see everthing with two good eyes, and I feel safe and loved at all times. I am no longer afraid of anything! I also have forgiven those who mistreated me while on Earth.

I know my ARF-IL fosters and the people who adopted me loved me very much, and feel great sadness and heartbreak at my passing. I wish I could give each of you a big Daisy kiss to let you know that it is all ok, but that is not how this works. To anyone I growled at or showed any sort of aggression to or played too rough with, I am so sorry. I never meant any harm to anyone, but due to past mistreatment, I sometimes acted inappropriately. I loved the people who came into my life after I was rescued, especially the family who adopted me and my foster parents. I loved my foster sister Zera so much - I'm pulling for you, darling Zera!

And to my former foster sister, now just sister Maggio... we shared some of the same fear and behavior issues due to our pasts, that kept us from getting along. I know you were an ARF-IL rescue dog, too, and your prior life was also not good. When your time comes to cross to the Bridge, Bella and I will be here to greet you with kisses and love, as we will for the rest of our family.

Thanks to my foster parents for taking me into their home, and giving me the best months of my short life. And for taking me to the dog park so I could run like the wind, and making my last days so very special. And, for being there with me to calm me and love me as my time on Earth came to an end. I know you did the best you could, and it was an almost unbearable heartbreak for you to be there while I went on my journey; I thank you for doing all that for me. I have some extra big kisses saved up for each of you, when each of you comes for all your doggies and kitties at the Bridge.

Gotta run, Bella and I are going to go run and play.

Confident woofs and big, sloppy licks,

Daisy

My Furever Family Found Me!!

I really came to like my foster pawrents and the other foster dogs so much over these past months, but I still kept hoping fur a furever family of my very own... My fosters helped me to overcome most of my fears and through having my eye removed. They took me back after a failed placement at an assisted living facility, when it turned out to be too noisy and scary for me there. They showed me the patience I needed to blossom and learn to trust and enjoy life, perhaps for the 1st time. And through it all, they kept believing that there was a special family just for me out there somewhere just waiting to find me. I will always have a special place in my heart for my fosters.

And now my dreams have come true! I was hanging out at the adoption event yesterday with my pal, Sarah, when a very nice family came over to pet me. Low and behold, it was my furever family! They found me! After spending a little time getting acquainted, I adopted them on the spot! It was clear that we were meant to be together! And now we will be.... forever! It'll be a little scary again for awhile, being in a strange place with new people again and having to learn each others' likes and dislikes, but I don't mind because this is MY home and MY family now. Pretty soon I'll show them just how much I love and trust them in my own goofy way. :) I'm the happiest girl in the world.

Love,
Daisy

My Humble Beginnings...

I never thought I'd be in a real home and pawthoring my very own diary! I feel so furtunate and hope all my furiends that I had to leave behind are as lucky as me!

One day I was living in a small cage in a shelter in Kentucky counting down the days till my time would be up. Then one really stormy night some humans took me and 2 of my furiends to a pickup truck and locked us in crates in the back, threw a big plastic tarp over us and drove us through tornado weather all the way up to Illinois. That was really scary!!

When we got to Illinois, we had to see a dogter and get shots and stuff. That was scary, too!! THEN, a nice lady took us to her van and let us sleep in cages in there while she took us to something called an "adoption event" but that was SO scary I wouldn't come out of my cage. At the end of the event, this nice couple came and got me out of the van and tried to take me to THEIR car! But I'd had enough by that time and I made it real hard fur them. BOL! I kept crawling under everything I could... tables, chairs, trucks... but they finally got me into their car and brought me to ... my own foster home!! Well... that was pawretty scary fur a while too and I just stayed hidden fur days. But my foster pawrents didn't push it and I realized maybe I could start to be nice to them. And to my surprise... they were nice to me too!!!

Now I'm a happy, playful, loving, confident girl and I love to play with the other dogs and squeak the heck out of that silly kangaroo toy and run, run, run like the wind in the yard! If a foster home is this great, I can't WAIT fur my very own home!!

Sniffs 'n kisses... Daisy