Has it been 6 months since my last post!? And are there still people following this? Google's Blogger says there are so I'll go just go with that.
As some of my blogging friends know, I am still around spouting off with my ill sense of sarcastic humor on Face Book. The results are almost instantaneous and I am a creature of wanting immediate satisfaction.
I have been home from work for 5 days now on my stay-cation and enjoying every bit of it. Friday, me and the Mrs. will be taking Sienna, a dog she has been fostering to her new owners. I do not expect the next few days to be anything short of difficult, and I am sure my wife, and to some extent me, will be sobbing as we hand Sienna to her new family.
Sienna was rescued a few months back by my wife from a kill shelter. She was malnourished, filthy and without manners when my wife brought her home. Today she is still without (some)manners but looks 100% better. My wife has literally put hundreds of hours of love and patience into making this dog adoptable. Purely a labor of love.
Tomorrow Sienna will be given to a 6 year old boy named Connor, his mother and dad. Sienna will be his first dog, a gift of responsibility and companionship. Sienna will thank him with her undying adoration and the occasional peeing on the floor.
No one ever forgets their first dog. Mine was a Schnauzer mix named Fuzzface. I have remembered her from almost forty years ago now. I know that forty years from now Conner will still be remembering his first dog named Sienna, and she'll have a special place in his heart.
They both will have my wife to thank for this, for giving so freely of herself, and breaking off a little piece of her heart to give to a once mangy dog we called Sienna.
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