A word on the disadvantage of big dogs

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I have a friend that always posts things on FB regarding large dogs, usually pits or pit mixes. I have looked at the sites local shelters post their available animals for adoption on and many of them are pit or pit mixes, amongst quite a few other large breeds. Now, if you haven't been reading my blog (1st of all, shame on you), you might not know that we just recently adopted a Husky. He is about 60 lbs.. so pretty big. In talking to my insurance agent I found out that most ins companies will not cover you for ANYTHING if you have a large breed dog, with the exception of Labs and Golden Retrievers..  Some will cover a few at a higher rate, some will write an exclusion for the dog... Most just will not bother at all if you have a large breed, and especially a few types in particular such as German Shepherds and Pits (there were 2 more on the highly "naughty" list, but I can't remember which)... I asked like 5 times, "how are people supposed to own a large breed dog and still have ins then?" To which all I really got was silence... (chirp chirp).... I feel so bad for those dogs. I know pits have a bad rep as it is because of the idiots who use/train them for bad things... Then on top of that, if a person wants to adopt one, they have to decide if they are willing to do so at the expense of their home owners insurance.. I don't get that at all, by the way, if your house starts on fire or something, it is no more likely that it was the big dogs fault than the little dogs fault if it was either of their fault to begin with.. Let's face it, it could have been faulty wiring... Anyways, my heart goes out to those dogs and the good people who would love to adopt one, but can't risk their home to do so..  To my friend on Facebook, keep up the good work.. Hopefully someday, things will change for the better for those poor dogs who were born big (with the exception of the 2 breeds mentioned earlier) with or with out a bad rep to go with it... 

As for my insurance, I am going to have to have a new policy written up. It will be a bit more expensive but luckily Husky's are not on the No No list through Progressive.. Bless them for that... If he had been a Shepard we would have been out of luck..

Welcome to the new member of our family!

As I mentioned in a previous blog, we had found a dog. Well, we found his humans and gave them a call. Turns out the first person my hubby called was basically some sort of scam artist? We were prepared to give the dog, whom we were calling Dharma, back... His humans moved into a new place that don't allow dogs.. They said we could keep him. I think it is odd how things work out sometimes.. It is better that we found his previous humans.. especially since we get to keep him... We now know things about him we wouldn't know otherwise. He is up to date on his shots and we will be finding out what type of food he likes.. He has been eating what we got him, but grudgingly so... His parent's were both big shot sled racing dogs and he is 5 years old.. There are other little things as well but in addition to gaining a K9 family member, I think we may have also made some friends with his previous people.. They seem like very good people who really only wanted the best for their K9 family member, whom they called Siku... Which, by the way, we will also be calling him from now on. So, to them I would like to shout out a great big thank you and an assurance that we will take good care of him!

Getting what you want and more!

I saw an episode of Oprah a few years ago about some belief system that was breaking out at the time. I can't actually remember what the belief system was called, but it is irrelevant to this blog post anyway. They believed that if you took a poster board and put pics of all the things you desired on it, that those things would eventually come to you. I remember this one lady said to be careful because she had a picture (of what, I can't remember) of something she wanted but there were also dogs in the picture. I don't remember if she got the thing she actually wanted but she did get the dogs, which were just sort of background additions. They said that lists can also work.

This got me to thinking about diaries. If putting things you want on a poster board or on a list, is supposed to bring them to you, then perhaps putting things that happened to you in a diary should be done with caution. I don't know about the rest of you, but I am a horrible diary keeper. I have started at least a handful of diaries with all intentions on being diligent and writing in them every night... Yea, right! That lasts a week at most before things start breaking down, and within about a month, I usually can't even find the stupid thing when I do think to write in it... And that also brings me to why I would be looking for it in the first place... In my experience, I tended to write all the negative things down and very few, if any, of the positive things down... This brings me back to the belief that a list or board of pics brings you the things you want. Nobody really wants bad things, but if you write down all the bad things that happen, is that acting like some list that brings more bad things? I don't know...

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To make this blog entry even more confusing and convoluted... On the subject of Karma... I was thinking that it seems kind of disrespectful to write anything negative on any kind of paper.. Why? Because if everyone and everything is connected, then paper, which is made of trees, is connected to everyone and everything as well.. so in writing something negative, it is like throwing a negative pebble into the world with a pen/pencil (pencils too, are made with wood) and paper.. Ok, so then I thought, maybe on a computer... Which, for personal use only, might not be as bad.. However, posting it to a community site, like Facebook or something, is just as bad and maybe even more so... At least a diary, even with the negative pebble, is not reaching people to where they are actually aware of it.... But then there is a dishonesty in the diary because you are affecting the world with your negative pebble covertly... On top of disrespecting the poor trees (or whatever) that the paper was made from... I say, just don't write anything negative... lol... like I am innocent of that, myself!!!

!!! GO POSITIVE !!!

Dog ponderings

Ok, so I promised you my ponderings on the dog. In the case that we do find his person, I can only hope that his person is a good person who treats him well. If we don't and we get to keep him, I still wonder about his person. We have theorized that he belonged to a transient based on where we found him and everything. If that is the case I hope his previous person is ok. I know that a lot of transients have dogs for many reasons. One of those reasons is for warmth. Another reason is for companionship. Although a lot of transients or homeless people create little communities with each other, they are communities of people. People are so much different than dogs. Whereas a person will do things like cheat, steal, or disown another because of various reasons of their own... A dog is loyal and gives love unconditionally... Truly unconditionally! When a dog runs away, it is not a personal thing. Personal feelings and responses is a person thing.

This kind of got me thinking that maybe dogs are the true Bodhisattva's of the world. A Bodhisattva, as how it was explained to me, is a soul who reaches enlightenment and returns to Earth to help all mankind. In a book I am reading there is a paragraph that goes

"The bodhisattva is encouraged to act in accord with the customs of the place and not do things considered inappropriate. In other words, a bodhisattva blends in and works within the cultural norm, rather than standing out like a sore thumb. In the best sense, a bodhisattva becomes invisible. Nobody knows you're a bodhisattva; you're just doing your best to wake up and benefit others."(No time to lose by Pema Chodron, pg 148)

Is it just me, or does this sound like something that we find dogs doing all the time? We have service dogs, therapy dogs, rescue dogs, and dogs that have been rescued that make huge differences in people's lives. In the case of service dogs, there are several specialties. There are dogs that sense seizures, cancer, anxiety.. There are the seeing eye dogs, and dogs that are trained to help paralyzed people... I even heard one time, that they were training Mexican Hairless dogs to act as a heating pad (of sorts) for those with Fibromyalgia ... Even dogs that are untrained, or those that aren't treated well are there for their humans when they need love or comfort, despite their own mis-treatment. Dogs have the ability to reach people that no other person can reach and help those that no other person can help. They are far more intuitive than the majority of mankind... So perhaps they are souls that have reached enlightenment and returned in the form of a K9 friend, to help all mankind!?!

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Week of 12/20/10-12/23/10

This has been an interesting week, to say the least. Monday thru Wednesday was spent delivering gifts for Be A Santa To A Senior. On Monday, I found myself at an apartment complex that my dad's long time girlfriend lives. I took some time to visit her. I knew I had a half sister but found out that I have 2 half sisters. It is a long story that might make a great blog subject at a later time. For now, the point is that I went home and found my 2nd half sister on Facebook. I was planning on writing to her after I worked out exactly what I wanted to say. I was a bit fearful of being rejected due to what my dads girlfriend said. Anyways, my husband went ahead and wrote to her and next thing I know, I have a friend request from her. Of course, I accepted her request and we are planning on having dinner on either Monday or Tuesday.

Then on Thursday of this week, while I was on my way to pick up my check, there was a dog running up the Express way. I pulled over and with the help of a volunteer fire fighter who also pulled over, I was able to get the dog. He is gorgeous. We are looking for his owner but at the same time kind of hoping not to find them. If we can't find the owner, we will be keeping him. There will be more in my next blog post about the dog and my ponderings about it.

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