TheSeeker
Citizen of Zooville
The last thing I want to do is get y’all down with a sad tale but rather starting this post in case anyone else needs to voice something to an audience who understands…
I moved to a new place one year ago and was totally psyched when I found out a really sweet female lab mix lived next door. She was so goofy and she loved to wrestle and make out and she let me pet her all over. I fondled her a bit too but we never did make the “connection”. She helped me through a rough time staying in my room over night while I was dealing with losing a close family member.
Then came the new neighbors… they have 2 pit bulls they keep drugged and locked up in the house 22 hours/ day because they are aggressive and sometimes they take one to work with them my lab mix friend would try to say hi when the pitbull came out the door. Well, the pit would want to attack and my neighbor cannot restrain their dogs so my lab friend wasn’t allowed to visit anymore and that meant my other neighbor (her owner) putting her on a chain in the yard and later a shock collar. Absolutely horrible life, especially for that dog who needs a lot of love.
Next, this spring my other female dog friend, German Shepard, who I’ve pet sit several times and spent many rambunctious hours with, had to be put down this March. It was devastating and although she wasn’t mine and there was never anything more than friendship between her and I it still makes me tear up thinking about her. On top of that, my buddy (her owner) and I have never been close since. She was the essential link between us it seems, so I actually lost two friends.
This was pretty much all I could handle and then another piece of news came and it floored me. I had been in touch with a shepherd breeder and on the waitlist for a pup and she’d just had a litter and I was like, why haven’t I heard anything? Finally she got back to me and she’d dropped my application without notice.
I can’t even tell you how alone and betrayed and desolate I felt. I was depressed solidly for over a month.
Things seem to be starting to look up now ? because someone put me in touch with a shepherd breeder who apparently is expecting pups this fall so now I’m in the awkward position of trying not to get any hopes up but also being prepared… I’m so ready for a good companion, especially after losing my two doggy friends and having finally given up on meeting a human partner.
Incidentally, I called my friend who had the GSD the other day and confessed how sad I still feel over her loss and not an hour later, my neighbor lab comes bounding over (wearing a dead shock collar) and we wrestled and kissed for a while and that was great. Then the owner came over and dragged her out from under my pickup truck by the collar and there was nothing I could do but walk away.
I moved to a new place one year ago and was totally psyched when I found out a really sweet female lab mix lived next door. She was so goofy and she loved to wrestle and make out and she let me pet her all over. I fondled her a bit too but we never did make the “connection”. She helped me through a rough time staying in my room over night while I was dealing with losing a close family member.
Then came the new neighbors… they have 2 pit bulls they keep drugged and locked up in the house 22 hours/ day because they are aggressive and sometimes they take one to work with them my lab mix friend would try to say hi when the pitbull came out the door. Well, the pit would want to attack and my neighbor cannot restrain their dogs so my lab friend wasn’t allowed to visit anymore and that meant my other neighbor (her owner) putting her on a chain in the yard and later a shock collar. Absolutely horrible life, especially for that dog who needs a lot of love.
Next, this spring my other female dog friend, German Shepard, who I’ve pet sit several times and spent many rambunctious hours with, had to be put down this March. It was devastating and although she wasn’t mine and there was never anything more than friendship between her and I it still makes me tear up thinking about her. On top of that, my buddy (her owner) and I have never been close since. She was the essential link between us it seems, so I actually lost two friends.
This was pretty much all I could handle and then another piece of news came and it floored me. I had been in touch with a shepherd breeder and on the waitlist for a pup and she’d just had a litter and I was like, why haven’t I heard anything? Finally she got back to me and she’d dropped my application without notice.
I can’t even tell you how alone and betrayed and desolate I felt. I was depressed solidly for over a month.
Things seem to be starting to look up now ? because someone put me in touch with a shepherd breeder who apparently is expecting pups this fall so now I’m in the awkward position of trying not to get any hopes up but also being prepared… I’m so ready for a good companion, especially after losing my two doggy friends and having finally given up on meeting a human partner.
Incidentally, I called my friend who had the GSD the other day and confessed how sad I still feel over her loss and not an hour later, my neighbor lab comes bounding over (wearing a dead shock collar) and we wrestled and kissed for a while and that was great. Then the owner came over and dragged her out from under my pickup truck by the collar and there was nothing I could do but walk away.