This reminded me of a story from my own experience. When I was a kid, my mother hated cats, and had us chasing them out of our yard with a garden hose or buckets of water. Later, in the mid seventies when I was living on a farm, I adopted a cat that a friend rescued from her tenant, who went insane and was actually institutionalized. The man had attacked his cat and nearly severed its head with a kitchen knife. The landlady had had the cat hospitalized, and was trying to help it recover, in a room by itself, for she had other cats. I adopted that cat, and gradually nursed him back to health, which was a long process, and the cat became very attached to me. Eventually, when I moved to the USA, in 1979, my mother, to my utter surprise, volunteered to take my cat. Evidently, she was deeply moved by the story of my helping this cat recover. So, starting in 1979, my mother became a cat person in spite of herself, and the cat lived out its final years in a brownstone with a yard in Rotterdam.
💕💕💕 Lee Asher … Asher House Sanctuary. Dogs are always being surrendered because they’re too much. Too much as in too much to handle because they’re too hyper or too wild. Now I’m talking generally here so please do not feel attacked by the following: Most of the time as pet owners we can do more. We often lack the energy, motivation, patience and discipline it takes to properly take care of the breeds that we want. Imagine how much the average person could transform from learning how to keep up with their dog that they feel is “too much”. More importantly than keeping up with but actually being able to service all of the dogs needs. No matter how tired we are or how cold it is we still exercise with our dog, we eat healthier to have the energy to keep up with our dog, we build discipline and patience to have an understanding and special bond with our dog. Not so the dog is not too much but instead we do this so that we are the ones that qualify to be this dogs parent. We do this so that we are enough. This is one of the many gifts this dog can and will give you.
This reminded me of a story from my own experience. When I was a kid, my mother hated cats, and had us chasing them out of our yard with a garden hose or buckets of water. Later, in the mid seventies when I was living on a farm, I adopted a cat that a friend rescued from her tenant, who went insane and was actually institutionalized. The man had attacked his cat and nearly severed its head with a kitchen knife. The landlady had had the cat hospitalized, and was trying to help it recover, in a room by itself, for she had other cats. I adopted that cat, and gradually nursed him back to health, which was a long process, and the cat became very attached to me. Eventually, when I moved to the USA, in 1979, my mother, to my utter surprise, volunteered to take my cat. Evidently, she was deeply moved by the story of my helping this cat recover. So, starting in 1979, my mother became a cat person in spite of herself, and the cat lived out its final years in a brownstone with a yard in Rotterdam.
💕💕💕 Lee Asher … Asher House Sanctuary. Dogs are always being surrendered because they’re too much. Too much as in too much to handle because they’re too hyper or too wild. Now I’m talking generally here so please do not feel attacked by the following: Most of the time as pet owners we can do more. We often lack the energy, motivation, patience and discipline it takes to properly take care of the breeds that we want. Imagine how much the average person could transform from learning how to keep up with their dog that they feel is “too much”. More importantly than keeping up with but actually being able to service all of the dogs needs. No matter how tired we are or how cold it is we still exercise with our dog, we eat healthier to have the energy to keep up with our dog, we build discipline and patience to have an understanding and special bond with our dog. Not so the dog is not too much but instead we do this so that we are the ones that qualify to be this dogs parent. We do this so that we are enough. This is one of the many gifts this dog can and will give you.