live moxie

There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

I absolutely love this quote.  Now you may not be an animal lover but animals are amazing.  Animals have thoughts, feelings, emotions etc just like people and they are amazing at sensing danger and your feelings.  I cannot imagine not having a dog in my life.  I have always had dogs from when I was a baby, and there is nothing better than the welcome home tail wags and kisses you receive each day.  You can be gone to the mailbox and you get the welcome all the same, they are just happy to see you.

I have since moved back home because I am going to grad school and we have our family dog.  Her name is Bailey and she is very smart.  I also have my dog named Pancake.  I don’t know if there are two dogs who can be more different.  Bailey can be very sneaky such as taking bones and hiding them.  Pancake has a pink bed that is her absolute favorite and recently Bailey has been lying in it just so Pancake can not. 

Now I love them both but it does make me mad when Bailey does it just to annoy Pancake.  They also both sleep in my bed with me (very tight quarters, let me tell you.  Two stretched out dogs… and its a TWIN!).  But Pancake is my dog and she is a very special dog.  Haha, I know most people think their dogs are special dogs and people with dogs are quite attached to them but that doesn’t make Pancake any less special!

I adopted Pancake this summer from a shelter.  She was actually a puppy mill breeding dog.  It makes me so mad that people treat dogs and puppies the way they do.  They breed and breed them and then a lot of times they bring the mama dogs to shelters because they are done breeding them and do not need them anymore.  It honestly makes me sick that someone can treat an animal like that.  Now I don’t have a problem with a dog having puppies but when you overbred a dog they can get quite sick and most of them die before anyone knows what is wrong with them.  The puppy mill dogs live their lives in cages and never know anything better while their babies are sold for a huge profit.  I just think there needs to be much more regulation when it comes to breeding.  But that could be a completely different blog.

Anyway… back to my Pancake story.  The poor little girl shook the entire car ride home.  She looked like she had maybe just had some puppies and she was not treated right.  She slept in my bed the first night and since then she has been attached to my hip.  The first few days if I left she would sit at the door until I came back.  She still does that, but she will realize I may be gone longer and she will then go play.

 She also had no idea what playing was.  It took about a month and a half and one day she started chewing a toy I had bought for her.  Obviously a HUGE milestone!  She is now a big player and loves any toys she can find!

 Pancake was also a really sick dog when I adopted her.  When dogs are overbred their insides can become filled with tumors and cancer and cysts and thankfully I scheduled Pancake’s surgery pretty soon after I adopted her.  The vet said that she would have been dead in a month if I had not adopted her because of how messed up her insides were.  Sadly, as I mentioned this is common in dogs used for breeding.  I do not want to think of how many dogs die because they are not taken care of.

What amazes me so much about rescue animals is their ability to love.  Rescue animals have been through a lot and no dog deserves to go through that.  But they have this ability to love their caregivers even after they have been mistreated.  As I said Pancake is attached to me and I could not have asked for a better dog.  She is such a snuggler and I honestly feel (and this will sound really corny) but we were meant to find each other!!  She is a snuggler and she just makes me happy.  Now as a grad student I really have no extra money, but I would not trade Pancake for anything.

She leads a tough life, doesn’t she?

 She is pretty spoiled, can you tell?

Although, does anyone have any leash training tips?  Pancake is actually scared of leashes and will begin to shake (obviously what she does when she is scared) when I try to take her on a walk.  She does not run away from me and will follow me when I try to take her for a walk, but I would like for her to use the leash.

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