Hi everyone...and Welcome to Wednesday.... I've been keeping busy lately...this morning I had a breakfast meeting and this evening another networking meeting. Tomorrow I'll spend most of the morning having new tires put on my Blazer....the tires I have are "really" bad....but since DH has to be here at the Studio I'll just have to wait to have them put on.
DH and I switch times here at the Studio...we feel that one of us should be here at all times just in case a potential client calls or drops in. I usually stay on Mondays and Wednesdays, and then I close on Saturday's. Yesterday DH went home early to do some work on the house, since it rained all day Sunday, so I closed up. I told him I would stay late again tonight so that he could go home and take the girls to the park....we always feel guilty that we have so little time to spend with them unless DH goes home to spend time with them.
Do you ever feel guilty about not spending enough time with your furkids?
Only on days that end in "y", LOL! I think she gets *enough* attention, but if I could have her with me all the time, I'd be in total bliss! She'd love having me around all the time (and even more having DH around all the time!), but I'm much more prone to separation anxiety than she is!
When DH and I were in Paris, we'd see these little old ladies with their foofy little doggies on the ends of little pink leashes going almost everywhere. The small neighborhood groceries often let patrons leash their dogs at the service counter while they shop. Cafes are usually dog friendly for the sidewalk tables, and usually the tables close to the door as well. I could really see myself going through life attached at the hip to Katie!
In past decades, with other dogs, when working full-time, you bet I felt guilty sometimes! <:-/ Nowadays, I am home all the time, so I am with Mika most days. We go for our walks every day, and she is alone only for a couple hours now & then as I run errands, etc. She & I are companions through the day and I don't know how I would face my life without her, to tell the truth! We both give DH big greetings when he gets home from work, and we all usually settle in for a night at home. With her being deaf, and having some behavior quirks due to her being dumped for the first year of her life in shelters, she really needs someone who is home most of the time. She would not do well left all day while someone is away at work or leading too busy a life to have much time for her. I am glad that I found her at this time in my life, when I can be home with her. Otherwise, I don't think we could have given her a good home, for her emotional/psychological needs. Our other dogs didn't have the same kind of issues, and handled being home alone while we were at work, but being as we are homebodies in the evenings and on weekends, we still spent a lot of time with our dogs over the years. There were years I would get up at 5:00 a.m. to walk with our dog, or would walk evenings with DD and our dog. Or DD & I would walk/hike on the weekends with our dog. So, we've always felt when having pets (even our guinea piggies) that having pets meant we spent as much time at home as we could, aside from work. We also did that because when we were raising DD, we felt that was important for her, to give her that kind of steady family foundation, being home, home-cooked dinners, steady schedule, etc. So, that worked well for having pets, too. :)
Blessings,
Gypsy
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"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night.
It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime.
It is the little shadow which runs across the grass
and loses itself in the sunset.
- Crowfoot, Blackfoot warrior and orator
Mika Dog
"All things share the same breath;
the beast, the tree, the man.
The Air shares its spirit with
all the life it supports."
--Chief Seattle
"If there are no dogs in Heaven,
then when I die I want to go where they went."
~Will Rogers
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress
can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
~~Mahatma Gandhi
Whenever DH and I go on vacation....or are anywhere for that matter....we always seek out dogs that are with their owners. We miss our girls no matter when we are away from them. When we did go away for a week or so we'd always have to get our doggie "fix" somewhere....LOL....
When I worked full time I always regretted the fact that I wasn't able to spend enough time with my furkids. I'm so thankful that for the last year or so of ^Valentine's^ life I was home most of the time. Even though DH and I now own a business, we take time for our girls. And with the dog park they get more exercise than any of our previous dogs....especially Cleo....
