In case you are curious- a 68 lb. full grown Labrador Retriever who is in excellent health CAN pull a warm, just delivered to your door through no contact delivery thick crust mushroom pizza still in it’s box from off of the kitchen counter.He can get the box open and eat half of it while turning in circles so that you can’t pull the pizza from out of his jaws.
He can also do it while wagging his tail and – here is the plus side- he will hoover up the mushrooms that drop off of the pizza himself so that you don’t have too!
It’s hard to get mad at this face, but gee whiz I would have liked to have gotten a slice or two myself.
People use it to describe someone they feel ‘bound to’, ‘fated to be with’ and when I hear it song, poems or on TV I smell patchouli and I hear strains of ” Nights In White Satin” (VOMIT VOMIT VOMIT )
However, I don’t find the concept improbable.
My soulmate was my cat Wolfgang.
He took care of me when I was sick, he attacked people who made me angry ( and I mean, if he had been a dog…the outcome would have been horrific for all involved ) and he got into some heated battles with dogs and won. He was always by my side or nearby and he taught my dogs to be cats.
We watched a meteor shower together and we even saw a ghost once- really. Sometimes when I was sleeping I’d wake up and he’d be sitting on my chest, staring down into my face because he was either soaking wet and wanted me to dry him off or he had an abscess that had popped and we wanted me to clean the gunk off.
His best friend ( besides me ) was a Racoon.
Wolfie and the Racoon used to eat together on the porch and then toddle off into the woods to do whatever a racoons and cats do when they disappear into the darkness together.
So why do I think he was my Soulmate?
Well, when he died at almost 18 years of age…part of me did too, I felt it.
That’s how I know.
His name was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and if there is an after life, I hope his is the first face I see when I get there.
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Wolfgang- about 8 weeks old. Photo by A.M. Moscoso
Wolfie- the size of a Big Gulp. He grew up to be a BIG cat and weighed a healthy 18 Pounds- not fat, all muscle. He was something else.
We’ve seen those dog shaming posts on Facebook, well most of us have.
Meet two of the coolest dogs in the world- they don’t heckin’ CARE what you think and they don’t care what you say
Meet Mabel and Olive- they own ( and I mean they OWN ) a Scottish newscaster named Andrew Cotter…he makes noises about how these two pawsome girls have no respect for him and he is thinking about getting a cat.
BOL… I dare you Andrew. Seriously. Go for it.
More on Olive, Mabel and Andrew at the link below:
