Comments on: Pug At My Heart

By: maat45

maat45 — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 03:32:58 +0000

Thanks, Wolfbernz…! My other half did have a farm for some years…not a working farm per se but she rescued then, too. Raised a cougar from a kitten of four weeks, loved him to bits but then he got too much to handle as a 3yrs. old adolescent so she found him a mate on a farm up north (she was living in the upper Mid-west then.) but had buffalo, peacocks, orphaned deer, orphaned skunk/raccoon, a couple of Scottish Highland cows, goats, a sheep…lolol. I’m kinda glad that was before me although I’d love to have alpaca or llama farm…just for my own enjoyment but, better just be happy we don’t have the land to do it or she’d get them for me! And I’m too tired! What do you farm/animals do you keep? It IS hard to say no and neither of us really wants to but…one of us has to be logical and that would be me…plus I’m the one who takes care of them most of the time! I don’t know whom it’s harder to refuse…an animal or the other half!

By: Wolfbernz

Wolfbernz — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:19:42 +0000

I think pugs are the cutest dogs. But I have to say that’s a lot of animals! At first when I started reading your post it sounded so much like my life here on the farm. Somtimes it is so hard to say no.
All the best
Wolfbernz

By: maat45

maat45 — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:25:45 +0000

ROFL, Raewynn! As I wrote this piece you can imagine that Oliver’s antics towards our friends was predominant…and I laughed my way through it. My boy…a character sure enough. I have and had several other “my boys” since and love them all dearly but I still laugh…and ponder…Oliver. He undid shoelaces on those visitors who wore them, tried to chew your Birkenstocks, whizzed on Anita’s (I think) purse, answered back any chiding he got, played Superman with a grocery bag round his neck (and I didn’t do it…he was being his usual nosy self…out of my sight), tore a strip off my new berber carpet and chewed a piece of my leather sofa (because I’d scolded him by putting him in the living room, not with me in the family room, for being naughty). But he cuddled and he loved and he had a heart bigger than his energy. I had a friend chide me once because she knew I never would have allowed my daughter the lattitude I gave Oliver for misdeeds and I suppose that was very true. And yet, as I told her…this little guy had a such joyful spirit. He was very good for and to me so there was no way I could curb that…or want to. Maybe he taught me the valuable lesson of patience.

Glad you checked in, enjoyed the piece and commented! Thanks!

By: Raewyn

Raewyn — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:01:50 +0000

Hi Nancy,
I thoroughly enjoy reading this snippet of your life and it brought back many mmories of Oliver. I recall his personality well, particularly when he go his hand on hip attitude and wanted his way! It was fascinating to feel such a large personality in such a small body. Thanks for the memories.

I also enjoyed reading the comments. We all respond to “pugs of the heart”

By: PupsDad

PupsDad — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:11:00 +0000

And we just had a conversation again on Easter Sunday, when a certain neice started discussing wanting a Pug, her first pet, and I felt that one would be overwhelming.

By: maat45

maat45 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 13:33:12 +0000

ROFL! Ooh, that’s a grim outlook, McSlap! But you do have a point…not to mention being right on the money of how we got to sixteen. In retrospect, you must have been a fly on the wall during some recent conversations about chickens, fainting goats and a wee pot-bellied pig…the scenario you describe is very familiar.

By: Sondo Mc Slap

Sondo Mc Slap — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:10:30 +0000

Re: Pug At My Heart’

Short note, don’t get number 17, think back to when you only had five and were probably debating should we get number 6. Did it go something like this, “right this is the last one, six is a lot but I can justify it because I will never get a seventh”, Ring any bells?
Now, skip forward four years from now to possible future conversations with oneself.

“Well I suppose Yak milk is meant to be good for you and we could convert the bathroom into a stable or maybe the yak could sleep with the reindeer? No, that would just upset the goats, beside we need the bathroom for the dolphin”.

Beware, it’s the never ending story

By: maat45

maat45 — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 03:28:33 +0000

Me too, Annied…the moment has passed and as long as you-know-who doesn’t even hint at it again, I’ll be fine! LOL! It was a temporary loss of good sense!

By: annied

annied — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 19:02:02 +0000

I can say without being biased that you would give that puppy a lovely home, but I have to shake my head and say NO! NO! NO! as tempting as it may be.
I am sure all the puppies will find other loving homes to go to when they are ready.
If you ever go on a trip, think of the person who will have the responsibility of taking care of all the brood. I know they are all more than well looked after, but hey, give the rest of the world a chance to own a dog, cat, or a bird.
Tempting as it is, I have to say a big NO! to this. LOL

By: annied

annied — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:34:59 +0000

Annied shakes her head in disbelief!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No, No and NO!
That puppy when it is born will find a lovely home, not that your’s is not, but there is a home waiting for it out there, and it is not your home. LOL.