Furry, Feathered, or Fins?

[Emproph]

I was going to post this joke but now I can’t:

I have small turtle and some fish in a koi pond, though I don’t have any koi actually. So not really a koi pond I guess, more of an overt pond. It’s there, it’s a pond.

Oh well, back in the closet for you joke.

[tdogg]

I just read that William (Bill) Shatner's (yup, that would be our famous Captn Kirk of the USS Enterprise) prized American Saddlebred stallion (Revival) went on to greener pastures at the young age of 15. He was just starting to realize his potential as a great sire of show horses. Bill loved that horse dearly and drove him to an amateur World Championship (Saddlebred show in Louisville). The trainers loved him and the stallion manager - he lived the last few years occasionally driving his people around and making babies, most recently in his newest home in Scottsdale.

Bill says "I had a chance a month before his death to drive Revival. Out of the stall he came - as proud as he's ever been, as sound, and that beautiful, soft, loving eye that uniquely marked him. I patted him and then got into the cart - and away we went, over the desert, along a trail that was barely marked...Revival and me and the sun and the sand. He was glorious. That was the last time I saw him, and I will remember him that way as long as i live."

Horses are only with us a brief while - they commonly live well into their twenties and if we are lucky and they are healthy, into their early thirties. To be taken away so soon is heartbreak. But, even if they were to live one day before our own death, it would be too soon to lose them. I don't know Bill personally or the horse, only through what I have read and seen. Bill is a true horseman and Revival a once in a lifetime miracle. I can't imagine a heaven where our horses do not roam waiting for us to join them....

[Emproph]

Originally Posted by tdogg

I can't imagine a heaven where our horses do not roam waiting for us to join them....

It always upsets me when religious leaders say animals don't survive death.

[Daniel]

Last summer, my husband and I buried Jasper, our tuxedo cat from the streets of chinatown, in Central Park during the dead of night under a tall leafy tree. We found him rolling around on his back in the middle of the sidewalk while on our third date: dirty, tail broken, smelly like you wouldn't believe. He was hardly a year old. We scooped him up and brought him home to the apartment I would move into a few weeks later- but that's another story.

Jasper had a way of calming you down when you were upset and would, without fail, amble up when I was meditiating and sit down in front on me, paw extended, lightly touching my hand. Oh. I thought. I'm on your level now.

During his first weeks with us, we learned to keep the piano lid closed so that he wouldn't walk over the keys at first light. Smart boy that he was, he would revert to shoving music off, sending it crashing to the floor (a squirt bottle solved that problem). Feed me! He was saying. Now!

Naughty and enlightened. Just how I like my men.

Fourteen years was much too short.

[Jamie McDaniel]

From 1996 until 2004 I lived by myself. Then last year I brought home a paranoid beagle that I named Ezri. At $50, she was quite a bargain, but I should have caught on the way the lady at the humane society asked if I was sure I wanted her. She's scared of everyone and loses all bladder and bowel functions when anyone new approaches her. When I was a kid I had the best dog in the world, and well, now the universe needed to be balanced. And to think I got a dog hoping to walk her around and meet a nice man.

$300 to get her spayed, $450 for a storm door with a little doggie door, and $250 for a heated dog house that went into the screened-in patio room that is now Ezri's room.

But you know, I've grown really attached to her.

My boyfriend moved in with me this year and he has two chihauhaus. So where it was just me, now it is a full house.

We were watching Grey's Anatomy on Monday and they had to put a dog to sleep. We were both crying. (I'm so sorry for your loss, Rick.)

Check out this picture thread from awhile back.

[Mia14]

Maybe I'll add some picture to that post and pull it out of the cemetery. I'm not sure if it's allowed or frowned upon, but I thought it'd be a good idea, so here it goes...