Snow! Snow! Snow! Let there be snow! It has snowed and flurried at my house! It looks all pretty outside! I'm sure you all know what snow means: everyone is driving like idiots, hurring to the stores, and buying up all the milk and bread. LOL Since it is ever so cold out, be sure to check on your pets!!! My lil buttheads are snug inside...I may go home to a destroyed house! LOL This brings me to my blog point of the day: people who don't care for their dogs make me want to punch them in the nuts.

I have long been an avid dog (and all other creatures) lover. Dogs are much better people than people. They are eternally forgiving, superbly resoursful, and fiercly loyal. I can not identify with people who just see dogs as basically decor or accessories. I know serveral of these alleged "dog lovers" who basically collect the breeds they like and then get bored and discard them to the back yard or simply give it away like it is last year's fasion or even worse: dump them in the country on a deserted road leaving them waiting, hoping that the master they loved so much will come back for them. Dogs usually don't survive the latter choice. They get hit by cars, starve, or worse fall vitim to even crueler intentions of passers by.

I have two dogs. I didn't necessarily choose either one. They chose me, or rather fate chose us to be a family. I could not love my dogs more, even if I had hand picked them from pure bred litters and paid a fortune for them. Hank is a (suspected) border collie. He is the love of my life (sorry DH LOL) and my constant companion. He was dumped in my hometown near my parents' house and was starving to death and had a horrific case of worms so what little he did eat was useless. He had no collar, his feet were bleeding because of all the walking on black top he was doing. I'm prettty sure he is pure bred. Someone paid a lot of money for him, then I suspect got frustrated with his extreme energy and just turned him loose. He is smart. Really smart, but EXTREMELY...I will use the word "enthusiastic". Border collies are not for the faint at heart. They are high energy dogs that need a strong leader: and by strong I DO NOT mean hitting, I mean strong like a good mom (the "child" listens bc they trust you and like to get praise!). Hankie's only fault is herding cats. He LOVES cats. Every other "bad habit" was broken in a few weeks by redirection and lots of exercise...BONUS: HE CAME HOUSE TRAINED!!!!

The point of my rambling? Research. Research. Research before you get a dog. Don't buy a yorkie if you want a "jogging partner". Don't buy a Great Dane if you live in a one bedroom apartment. And don't buy a high energy breed if you are the world's biggest couch potato. In fact, don't buy a dog at all!!!! Yep you read correctly. Don't buy a dog. Rescue one!! Thousands of dogs (and cats!!) are in your area needing a good home! The best parts about adopting? Most are house trained, nearly all of them are vet checked and "fixed" (they get shots, wormed, heartworm checked and spay/neutered!!! which saves you a lot of $$$$) and...an adopted dog knows when they have been rescued by a good mom/dad! A rescued dog will bond to you and love and appreciate you more than you could imagine! :)