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Oooops! I ate my- motto....*burp!*

Barked: Sat Oct 20, '07 4:43pm PST


	Hi Gang! It's Stormie's Mom at the keyboard. I need an outlet to vent out a little frustration. Last evening, I made plans with my cousin and her 7 yr. old daughter to go out shopping and to dinner and such. The evening started off well enough. My cousin and I have always gotten along very well and I looked forward to spending some time with her - as the night progressed, I wanted nothing more than to run far away, however. Over dinner we were discussing the passing of her cat. He had urine crystals. This is the second cat she's had pass with this issue in the past couple of months. I expressed my sympathies to her, and offered some suggestions for her remaining cat regarding diet etc. She dismissed them all. Also, instead of trying to help the cat (who her daughter was very attached to), she immediately had him put to sleep. So the subject went to Stormie's Fanconi Syndrome. I explained about his vetting requirements and daily pill intake and the food changes I've made for him, etc. She looked at me like I had 6 heads and said, "Well, if it were me, I'd have had that dog put to sleep when he was diagnosed - he's just a dog." I was FLOORED! I wanted so badly to say "What if God forbid, your daughter develops a life threatening disease? Is your solution to have her euthanized as well?!" I managed to hold my tongue, but remained very quiet for the rest of the evening. I can't believe she said that to me, and that that's how her mind works, and that we somehow grew up in the same family!!!! Have any of you encountered this with your dogs? I mean, Stormie is SO much more than a dog - he's my FAMILY. I would move heaven and hell to keep him healthy and with me for as long as possible. I just can't get the fact that someone can be so callous! Sorry for the novel, but thanks for letting me vent! , Lorraine p.s. Thank Dog for Dogster and all the wonderful people here who view their dogs in the same light I do - sometimes the rest of world just seems so wrong to me. Edited by author Sat Oct 20, '07 4:46pm PST

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Who Me?

Barked: Sat Oct 20, '07 5:17pm PST


	Lorraine, Melody here. You should have said something!!!!!!! I used to get the same type of thing from people until I started saying just what you wanted to. Now those people think I'm just a little off.... Do I care??? H*LL NO!!!!!! It makes them stop talking like that to me and that's what counts!!!! You have us and we have you and we are ALL family with our kids, I would live in a cardboard box if I had too to keep my kids with me, I can't stand the "well were moving and they don't allow pets crap", same thing!!!!!! I know just how you feel 110% Big hugs and much pup love!!! Melody, Sukeena, Kessy, Phoebe, Sparkle and the "other" B dogs!!

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Oooops! I ate my- motto....*burp!*

Barked: Sat Oct 20, '07 5:40pm PST


	Melody and Pack Thank-you so much for your kind words! If it had been anyone other than my family, I wouldn't have held my tongue. I probably wouldn't have held my tongue had my 7 yr. old little sweetie 2nd cousin not been sitting at the table with us. I think it hurt the most because she is family and yet so alien to me in her thinking.

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Earforce One

Barked: Sun Oct 21, '07 9:49am PST


	Lorraine, I know exactly how you feel There are many people in my life that think I'm a total nut for the love I have for my animals. When Coty was put to sleep, I, obviously, called in to work that day and no one could wrap their brain around why I would be such a wreck. At work, I run into FAR too many people that own horses just to have something to ride. One owner that I will never see in the same light again said (while in conversation about finding a good retirement home for horses) "I've always been of the thought that once the animal reaches the end of their useful life, you put them down." I, as a person who has 2 "useless retired horses" wanted to strangle her or smack her or something but I also had to hold my tongue because I can't be making the owners unhappy. I have always been of the impression that WE choose to bring these amazing animals (dogs, cats, horses, fish, whatever) and WE must do everything in our power to provide them with the best possible life and only when they can no longer enjoy that life, should we choose to end their lives. Animals are not put on this earth to serve us, they are here to enrich our lives, they should never be thought of as a burden. I feel sorry for your little cousin, Lorainne, losing a cat that she loved and I hope she grows up to have your respect for animals rather than her mothers!

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Oooops! I ate my- motto....*burp!*

Barked: Sun Oct 21, '07 4:00pm PST


	DewMan and Family Thank-you for "getting" it

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Bakari- Prince of- Tides

Sun's up, let's- play!

Barked: Sun Oct 21, '07 7:04pm PST


	I know exactly how you feel...many of my relatives are not "dog people" and are very insensitive to how I feel about my guys. It's their loss, they will never have such an enriching relationship as we do with our kids, er, pets....

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Oooops! I ate my- motto....*burp!*

Barked: Mon Oct 22, '07 5:04pm PST


	You are so right, Bakari! I just can't imagine not being an animal person - I s'pose instead of feeling hurt, I should just feel sympathetic for her loss.

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Red Boys ROCK!

Barked: Tue Oct 23, '07 5:16am PST


	M0mma L, Your saying that you should just feel sympathetic for her loss, is such an understandment. You have to feel sorry for anyone who has NOT had the experience of loving and being loved by an animal, and who has not cherished every ounce of that relationship. Dewman's Mom is right, they do enrich our lives and we are lucky because we recognize that we are better for it.

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Live, love and- play

Barked: Wed Oct 24, '07 9:01am PST


	Lorraine.....those kind of people are missing out on one of lifes richest rewards. I have never understood people like that and luckily have a family that are all animal lovers....with the exception of my new daughter in law and even she acknowledges the love other people have for their animals. I feel sorry for her daughter and hope she grows up remembering the love she had for her cat and not the indifference her mother has.

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Savannah aka- Banners!

Banners on the- Run! NOT!

Barked: Wed Oct 24, '07 5:17pm PST


	Lorraine, here's the quote I was trying to write to you about. You may have already read it. It's from a behaviorist Karen London. She wrote an article in the Bark (or maybe they just used her quote). "Dogs, the source of so much pure joy and warm comfort, are a reminder that perhaps the passion in our lives is too great to be contained within the bounds of humanity."

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