Friday Five: Pets
One of the RevGals writes: My son’s tiny beloved lizard, Elf, is looking and acting strange this week. His skin/scales are quite dark, and he is lethargic. We are adding vitamin drops to his lettuce and spinach and hoping and praying that he is just getting ready to shed his skin–but it’s too soon to tell. Others in the ring have also been worried about beloved pets this week. And, in the saddest news of all, Songbird has had to bid farewell to her precious Molly, the amazing dog who is well known to readers of her blog as a constant sacrament of God’s unconditional love.
So in memory of Molly, and in honor of all the beloved animal companions who bless our lives: tell us about the five most memorable pets you have known.
1. The #1 pet in our house has to be Molly, our seven-year-old border collie. She came into our lives just after Jerry and I were married – a sad-eyed find at a local pet store. Too big for the pen and the saddest brown eyes – until she spotted us and then she started smiling and wagging and wriggling all over and never held still for the next two years. Now, she is a grown-up girl and the babysitter for our latest addition ….finally, a job!
2. Zoe was found on a website for the From Heaven to Earth Rescue group out of Ohio. Her mother is a sheltie-australian shepherd mix and we are pretty sure her father may have been a Jack Russell so she’ll be keeping us entertained with her antics.
3. Murphy Brown was a dog from another time in my life. Try as we might, she was NEVER going to be an inside dog. She would much rather crawl to the top of her dog box and let the snow bury her. She lived in a kennel after she chewed the steel bumper off a mail Jeep … until we moved to the farm. For the last two years of her life, she ran free but she met her match when she chased a mail truck down the lane and got too close to the tires. Ran just long enough after she was hit to make it to the front porch and then collapsed at my feet. But oh, how she loved the freedom.
4. Cats – There have been many – alot of them yellow and white because they remind me of the cats at my aunt’s house when I was growing up. Now we have Mickey and Marmalade but the other memorable ones: Critter, TC, Sam and Buffy (who let me dress him like a baby for most of his life).
5. Bridget was the dog we had when Aaron was born. She was a beautiful pup and grew into a beautiful dog.
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