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why are you so upset, it's just a dog?

12/19/2015

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     Unfortunately, this is something that I’ve heard going on almost two months now, since one of my black babies have needed several emergency surgeries. It all started in November with a blown ACL for my Kanchen. After his knee surgery there was an abscessed tooth with complications. Just before Christmas we discovered he might have a malignant tumor in his nose that’s eating its way back into his skull, so again we’re trying to do what we can to get him healed up as much as possible and keep his pain in check.
     Even though Kanchen and his brother Rowen are both around nine years old (something like forty in dog years), they will always be my babies plain and simple. They’re both wickedly smart. I always think of them as being around six to eight years old mentally in their human understanding of things. They both traveled with me from Florida to Germany and have been traipsing around Europe with me on my travels, so much so that they even have their own passports.
     For those of you who are pet owners you know how much your dogs can mean to you and your family. For those of you who are not pet owners or who do not have kids, it’s probably something that sounds crazy. For me, they are just as important as any family member. More so in many ways, but that’s coming from someone who’s never have had much in the way of family. I had to laugh because one of my co-workers was talking about the death of his hound being more terrible then that of some of his family members dying. It was a perspective that I could readily understand.
     Anyway, when I found out how sick Kanchen was it kind of knocked me off my feet Tuesday and Wednesday evening. I didn’t get much done in the way of editing Destiny, but slowly I’ve been getting back in the swing of things once again. Tuesday we’ll find out if the tumor is malignant or not, so to keep my mind busy and to not think about everything too much I downloaded Elliot Kay’s books Poor Man’s Fight & Rich Man’s War and read them both. You can find the first book of the series here: http://www.amazon.com/Poor-Mans-Fight-Book-ebook/dp/B00RH1NV4M/ref=sr_1_6?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1450542538&sr=1-6&keywords=elliott+kay  It’s a good series btw and was just what I needed at the time to get my mind off of everything. I really enjoyed the basic training in book one. It brought back memories of my own time in the Army.   
     Tuesday my Christmas vacation starts. I’ll be at the vet for Kanchen’s surgery for most of the day, but I’ll be home editing and sitting with him Tuesday afterwards and probably most of Wednesday as he’s recovering, while finishing up the first run through of Destiny. My first check is mostly the story’s flow. Although I’m checking sentence structure and spelling too on this first run through, it’s not my focus. That will be the second check I run using an app from Grammarly.com. Then I’ll be passing it out to people to help me correct mistakes I’ve missed and let me know what they think of the story. Once that’s finished, I’ll run it by a couple of fans who’ve expressed interest in being beta readers and who really enjoyed the series. After making the corrections that people have found, I’ll release the story.
     The only major pain in the ass thing I need to also finish up is the back cover. Something that seems like it would be simple, but it’s really not. The back cover to your book, if done properly, is quite the work of art. It’s your main advertisement to get people to check out your story. I’ll go into the how more once I’m working on getting Destiny’s finished.
     I’ve included some pictures of Kanchen below for those of you who are interested. I’ll talk more about Christmas in Germany in next week’s post. For now I hope everyone has a great weekend.   
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4/17/2017 03:05:55 am

I love my white Alsation, Max, but he sheds enough hair to insulate an entire house! Wherever he walks a white cloud of hair follows, everywhere. Dog grooming was a nightmare for me.

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4/18/2017 11:09:40 am

I can under where you're coming from, but it all depends on how your pet fits into your family. For me, in many ways they are my children and my buddies. I do realize that not everyone holds their pet in the same regard.

In Germany, the local animal rescue leagues typically do not allow Americans to purchase their dogs, due to the fact that many only want them while they are here in Germany. When these soldiers leave they tend to leave their pets, since it's pricey to move them to the new assignment. Not saying that it's just an issue with soldiers or Americans. When I was on vacation to France, the country had an issue where people would just leave their dogs on the side of the road once they learned the hotel they were staying at didn't accept pets.

For myself, accepting a pet into your family is a commitment. Kind of like adopting children. Yea there are challenges when you assume the responsibility of taking on another life into your life, but there are also many wonderful things that come along with responsibility too. In regards to the hair thing, I've gotten very good at using trimmers to keep the hair down, which solved the whole tumbleweed of hair thing nicely.

Maybe my perspective means that I'm a romantic at heart. Who knows? I can't tell you how many time I'd gone through tough times in my life and coming home to my two boys made those difficult times so much easier to bear. Nor could I say how many weekends we just hit the beach together. I'd be surfing and the boys would be hanging out in the surf watching me and saying hi to the people who walked by. It was like hanging out with my best buds. They loved people. Whenever I'd throw a LAN party with 10 or 20 people, they'd always be going around visiting people and hanging out.

Everyone who ever met them could never believe how cool and intelligent they were. People always thought I was just going on because they were my babies, but after they meeting them, I'd always here people go on and on about them.

Anyway, that's my two cents on the matter :)

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12/24/2017 05:54:02 am

A non social dog is not only more likely to get into a fight and end up at the vet and be expensive to you for its damage and the damage it does to others, but also it can run away and get hurt.

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