September 1, 2008

• We Have A Surpirse Guest

  God sure knows how to flip an upside down mouth into a smile and give us a healing balm of “purpose” in our lives!!!

  We have a triple car garage.  One side has a double door, the other a
  single door and a wall divides the two spaces.  Yesterday afternoon,
  Jesse had both doors open and was working on his lawn equipment on the
  single side.  He said, as he came through the doorway to the double side, he heard heavy breathing – almost like a panting.  Scared the daylights
  out of him!

  Here’s what he found.

  

  Thankfully, the dog has an owner’s name, address, and phone number on her collar.  We’ve tried (last night and again this morning) to call “Cindy” and no one answered.  We figure she went away for the holiday week-end.  For now, the dog is called “Cindy’s Dog” because we have no intention of keeping her.  The address is quite a ways from our house and I’m guessing someone in this area was watching her and the dog escaped.

  At any rate, she reminds me of Chirper when he first came to our home.  She won’t stop moving, even jumped up to my shoulders and tried to hug me when I went outside this morning to give her fresh water (thus the blurry pictures).

  Ironically, we ran out of dog food yesterday morning, so Cindy’s Dog and Sampson are eating cat food until I can get to Wal-Mart later on.

  She has chewed the fur from her lower back (I once had a German Shepherd that did the same thing) and there’s no way we can let her in the house – not with two cats and one dog.  I think she’s used to being inside, because she whined pathetically this morning when I went out to change her water.
  

  She’s either VERY excited and too nervous to listen, or she just plain doesn’t follow the commands of “down,” “sit,” or “stay.”  She smells very “doggie” and I’m super sensitive to stinky dogs – makes me gag.  I patted her a bit and she begged me, with her whine and pathetic eyes, to stay outside with her.
  

  I hope Cindy arrives home soon to recover “Cindy’s Dog” because I don’t know what to do with her otherwise.  When looking for a cat (when we found Chirper), even the no-kill shelters were pretty yucky.  I don’t want another dog – especially one with an odor.

  I’m glad God sent her right into our garage as a diversion from the sadness of saying good-bye to our recent guests, and He knows we will take good care of her.  Now we are praying Cindy comes home soon to claim her lost pooch!  It’s supposed to rain starting Wednesday (Hurricane Gustav) and I hate to put her in a warm garage, even though the temps will go down.

  The rain will be way too heavy to keep her outside without a dog house.

  • 10:34 am
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