August 11, 2016

Greetings My Friend, Sammy died, Junior found him and it is hard to loose a little kitten so early on. He has been gone for a couple of weeks already and I am just now able to talk about him which means we only have one kitten left. Both Junior and I feel that Jack is the last cat we try to get, we have lost 2 kittens and frankly it is too hard. We love both cats and dogs so we felt our life would be complete with a couple of kittens, we also miss Alex and Blanko a ton too. We have a fur family and they are our family in every sense of the word. Val is the alpha dog, more like a Dad, he watches over his brood making sure there is no rough housing inside and staying on top of the other dog's playful outbursts outside too. He looks to us for approval and we lather it on him. We have done very little training of the young dogs other than enforcing that their bathroom is outside. Val even watched after the kittens when they were getting too rough with each other. He did not know how to deal with their rough housing so he usually just watched and let one of us know so we could deal with them. Harley needs a lot of special attention with his skin disorder and since he is clumsy not knowing his strength we tone him down. Brendy is in a war to show us she will not be contained. She is our boxer and has no problem jumping the fence only to come around to the front yard to greet us. Now that her partner's in crime can not join her she stays at home or visits Ronnie, our neighbor and her 2nd home. She even invites herself into his house. We are joining in the tradition down here and that means many days we leave our screen doors open along with the front and back door. This allows Brendy to opportunity to visit Ronnie inside and outside. Red is a stray who happened into our neighborhood a few years ago. He first adopted Ronnie, later he adopted us and he is now with Ronnie all the time. Brendy and Red are good friends. Red for some reason does not get along with most of our dogs so we have insisted that he is not aloud to be down here anymore which is another reason Brendy goes visiting. I think God brought us a family of dogs to love on. At first when we moved in a little shitz zu stray adopted us, she was pregnant and gave birth to 6 puppies, one died at birth and 2 were given away. No one wanted the other 3 so we kept them and this started our family of fur children. The house we are living in was empty for many years and some people used the house to crash in after a night of partying. I feel God directed Puppup to us so we were protected once the babies grew some with all their barking. It gave a clear message that people were living here, stay away. For a while strays kept finding us and we welcomed them in. Some moved on, some died along the way but we now have our kids fenced in, well except for Brendy so we should not get anymore strays. I also think people have called animal control before the stays reach us now. Either way our family is complete with 2 cats in the mix. Missy is a stray born here and has made herself at home, she is just now starting to let us pet on her and now we have Jack. The fur children are happy to see us, to love on us and in their own special ways they calm us when anxiety tries to over take us. I think God knew we needed the calming aspect that fur children bring, protection from outsiders fur and human. May God bless you and keep you make His face shine on you. Love Janet