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My heart is so full

Sue42576

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My heart is so full♡

As a kid I remember having a lil mix named Friskey. He was a sweet little doggie, I remember how upset I was when my parents split up and I couldn't keep him. I think my story begins there...when I was 8, my mom's boyfriend brought me home a GSD puppy and I named her Sheba and was instantly in love, no matter how much I begged and pleaded and promised to take care of her, she made him find her another home. When I had my second child, my ex husband picked me up from work with a lil black bundle of fur curled up in his lap. I named her Shadow, she was a best friend and guardian to my girls, and the best lab I have ever met. She stayed with us for nine years until she was called back to the bridge. After Shadow, I said I would never get another dog, my heart could not handle it. I was newly divorced, raising my girls on my own and felt a cat would be easier for me to handle at the time, financially and emotionally. In 2012 I found Gracie. I knew I needed puppy kisses again in my life. So I brought home a teeny lil bundle of devil and loved every second (except training a pug in the winter). She was so small and tiny and needed me...I was in love. Then last year when my boyfriend and I merged our families, I gained two sons and my Babygirl. I thought my life was complete, until I saw these beautiful blue puppy eyes last summer. Then Zeus came to join our family as our baby. My love affair for mastiffs began. My heart melted for that guy. Its like when you are pregnant for your second child, you can't imagine how you can possibly love another child as much as your first, and then you hold that baby in your arms and bam! Its perfectly clear! When I lost my Zeus my heart broke, I didn't think I could possibly love another as much as him. Odin was our healing baby. I think it took about a week for us to really open up to him, just too much heartache and tears at the time. He has been with us for nearly a month now, he is a lil terror at times and is capable of things I never could imagine with an 11 week old puppy, but I have to tell you, I am completely in love with this boy! His snores, his growls, his lil bitty baby bark, the way his big paws sound like slippers when he walks acrossed the floor, his puppy kisses when he is sleepy and cuddly, even the occasional nips in the nose when he fakes me out and catches me off guard! I don't know if losing Zeus taught me to appreciate him more, or if I have finally found MY life dog, but I have never loved a lil puppy face more than I do this lil guy...my heart is so full♡

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DennasMom

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Re: My heart is so full♡

Dogs are just amazing.
So glad you found another to open your heart to!
:)
 

DDSK

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Re: My heart is so full♡

I'm tearing up reading this, now send us a picture or it didn't happen lol
 

Catia

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Re: My heart is so full♡

You're making me tear up too--I TOTALLY GET IT!

Tessa did this to me.

She stole my heart & I didn't think I could be this ga-ga over a dog.

I swear she was sent to me from the bridge--buy my last girl, Gertie, who I lost at 13 yrs .

Every day I wake up & fall in love with her all over again-it's crazy how it happens.

Took me 3 years before I could even consider another dog, and I wasn't even considering a puppy initially.
I wanted an older mellow rottie.

Then I saw Tessa's face. And I ***KNEW** .

They put me through the ringer for an out of state adoption,--of a mixed breed puppy...
I filled out so many forms, had to give detailed descriptions of every dog I've owned & their breed,
My experience with training & health issues & personal references & vet & employer references- they back round checked me--and pictures of my house, & fence, a home inspection was scheduled, but then they turned me down for someone local...
Even when I got turned down-& was told she was adopted-somehow I still KNEW she'd be mine.

I called THAT day to see if anything fell through.
The manager told me something didn't feel right when she watched the approved adopters interacting with her-that something just felt off & she cancelled the adoption right then & sent Tessa back to her foster home
She asked if I would come in to meet her & Tessa.

I then drove 3 states away to pick her up.

The road with Tessa has been CRAZY--right down to her breed, which I was not prepared for.

**** I suspect now the rescue KNEW, which is why they were so picky about adopting out a mixed breed puppy.****
I was told she was an accidental breeding, from the beginning, but that she was a retriever/rottie mix.
She did look rottie, with her clippered fur...
Hindsight is 20-20--no one puts that much time into a mutt puppy without a reason...


And that reason was--Tessa was supposed to be with me.

It was also a happy coincidence that I landed here--a member here found me on a rottie site--where I was confused & wondering why my girl was SO ODD...

Honestly, there's never been a dog more tailor made for me, even when she was going through puppy stuff & driving me crazy, times I doubted myself & my ability to keep at it so she would be a well socialized pooch.

I never would have chosen this route, but I would not change it for the world.

She just turned 1yr in January.

Time moves slowly, but passes quickly.

I look back at the past year & realize, there will never be enough time on this earth, so I better get busy livin'--

She's breathed life back into me, & we're moving to a house in the country, close to rivers where she can swim & trails for us to walk.
Found the house on her 1st birthday :) took her with me to see it--she wasn't allowed in the house--just the yard.

If all goes as planned, that changes this weekend.
 

ParentsofVegas

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Re: My heart is so full♡

Great Stories!
We have been so privileged to have been
owned by some really exceptional dogs in our life.
I have come to realize that each one has left a
unique mark on our hearts.
Our GSD was our first child, and my sons guardian as a baby.
He made it through two major relocations and sixteen years.
Our Sundance snow white Lab girl was sweet as sugar as only
a Lab can be. Our border Collie Dakota, so smart and I used to
swear she was my mother in law reincarnated. And when I did
her head would whip around, Making it all the more creepy.
Our present senior rotty lab who never met a stranger without
dropping a ball at their feet.
He is now grumpily teaching the ropes to our new boy.
Miss Vegas who introduced us to Mastiffs, yet she is so
not the example of a typical Mastiff in size or temperament.
But even so she has a certain soul to her that I have not
had in any other dog. And now we start a new adventure
with our boy Fozzie Bear. He is a Rescue and no one
would ever convince me that he does not know how
his lot in life has improved. He is quickly bonding and
each day brings a new action that shows us how he is
blossoming into all around fine example of an EM.
In a way to me they are like your children,
What makes them special to you may never be evident
to others because it lies in the bond you develop.