The Love of My LIfe

Hello Friends,
Boy has it been a while since I shared a little piece of me with you. For those who haven't heard, I made my way back to Washington State and found a job working in a hotel. It's not my dream job by any means but the pay is good and the hours are good so it will do for now.
There are not many things that are new in my life but there is one major thing I would love to share with everyone.  Barkley is a 4 month old Italian Greyhound mix and as it turns out, he is also the Love of My Life. I haven't been really happy with life for a really long time and after depression, angst and a heartbreak I had tried just about all of my life to avoid and one that I was soooooooo not expecting, he really saved me just as much as I saved him.

I found Barkley through a rescue organization in Richland, WA and drove the two and a half hours there to meet him. He wasn't exactly what I was looking for and didn't know what to expect at all. When I walked through the door, his foster Mama was standing there holding him. He turned his cute little head and looked at me with those sad little dark eyes over his shoulder and I was a goner. I have never met an animal more willing to give unconditional love to anyone he meets until I met him. Even after a rough start in life and being rescued from the house full of animals and animal feces where he was born and then again from his first "forever home" after mistreatment by his new owners, he trusts and loves unconditionally. This makes him the most perfect dog there ever was in my eyes and I have definitely found myself a companion in life.
There are times when I have to remind myself that he is just a little puppy and that I can't get angry because I wasn't paying close enough attention to him. He is still learning how to ask to go outside and being a puppy, anything we leave out is considered fair game for teething purposes. The dog had toys everywhere but he would much rather chew on my yarn than his bacon flavored bone.

Had I known that he would be so easily entertained, I may have been able to save some money in the beginning.

Regardless of the trials and frustrations of training a new puppy, I am so happy that I found the one that is right for me. I know that I will find no better friend than the one laying in my lap helping me type this blog entry. For anyone out there who thinks that they need just a little something extra in their lives, please give some consideration to adopting an unwanted or abandoned animal. It discourages breeders from over breeding and the adopted pets are the ones who understand how much we truly love them because they have known a life without that love.


pssst...... by the way, have your pets spayed or neutered friends, there are already too many homeless pets.