A few years ago I made a commitment to adopt only senior pets, especially ones who had been abandoned or orphaned when their owners went to a nursing home or died. I only get 3 or 4 years with them, but they’re great years.
One of my current elders is a 10 pound, 15 year old deaf Poodle who arrived with the handle, “Shakti Paw Love Monkey.” He gets called various parts of that name at different times, but my favorite is Love Monkey because that’s so much who he is.
So in the year and a half he has been with me after his life-time owner died, he has bonded closely, and now develops anxiety when I must be away from the house. If left home, he sets to wailing his little lungs out, to my housemate’s distress. As a result, Shakti has to go everywhere with me.
Some of my friends call him my Poodle Appendage. One friend calls him that little white hairy mole on my chest. And another offers a play on the therapy dog theme, “Aw, I love it that your dog has a therapy person.”
Vicki
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That is so sweet! What a shero-this little doggy will have truly golden years because of your big heart.
yes congrats on your big heart!
Thank you very much. I had to leave the day before Mom died. Living in Wyoming I used everything I had just to be with Mom as much as I could before she died. I could not make another trip to WA for a long time afterwards. I could not take Shaktipaw with me before Mom was gone. Thanks again for such loving care.