mom’s turn

Written: Tuesday, June 24th, 2008 at 12:59 pm

I’m the “Mom” that Riley and Nissa keep referring to.

My furkids are absolutely right, I *am* absolutely nuts about them! In a way this web site is my tribute to them because they give me so much. If you’re not an animal lover, I don’t expect you to understand, but I have no doubt that those of you who have critters in your lives will get it in a heartbeat!

Looks like this adventure will also be self-therapy for me in that I will get to put a bit of my creativity to work. As the owner of my own web design company, it’s my job to work for the client and give them the look they want and what’s best for their business. Here, I get to play with colors and designs all my own! Another bonus for me is that I get to do one of my favorite things - talk about my furkids :-)

I hope my efforts will in some way help the German Shepherd rescue organizations that work so hard to help dogs in need, remove them from cruel and inhuman living arrangements and to give a chance to dogs that otherwise may be put down. Developing web sites is what I do and until I am able to move out of the city into the country with appropriate living space to house dogs, I decided to do what I can in the mean time.

It’s been quite the learning experience to take these two characters into my heart and home. I feel I’ve done a pretty good job. Riley and Nissa are wonderful dogs, they’re well behaved and have the absolute best personalities one could ask for in a dog.

A couple of years ago both my husband and I knew it would only be a matter of time before we’d lose our beloved Yorkies. They were old and all three of them were living with congestive heart failure. Lucky for us, they all lived quite well with their illness until for each of them, the end came quickly and with very little suffering. We went totally against the grain of our “dog lover personalities” when we decided that when the Yorkies were gone that we would not get any other dogs. We told ourselves that we wanted to be free to do what we wanted when we wanted without having the responsibilities of dog ownership. I think we both knew in our hearts that eventually we’d break that promise.

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