When life isn't worth living

We have company coming to visit, so the house is being cleaned.  Cleaned, including dogs.  Every time I find a place to lie down, here comes the noisy sucky machine.   I move, and then here comes the noisy sucky machine again.   Then I have invested hours in seeing that I have a dog toy within a few feet of me wherever I am in the house.   All the toys are now back in the box and I will have to start all over again.    Stella is not helping, she just goes outside and chases squirrel's.   Nala is so deaf that she sleeps until the noisy sucky machine starts pulling on her hair.  Once it makes her move, she just sits and waits till it moves on, then she lies back down in her favorite place.   Nothing bothers Nala. 

The humans did a fish rescue a week ago.   Someone had three very big goldfish in a huge tank, they wanted to make sure the fish were well cared for, they had kept them for over 10 years and they were over 16" long.   The tank and fish were moved into the basement.  In the spring when the water warms up outside, they will go into the Koi pond, there they will have thousands of gallons of swimming room.  Meanwhile the paw challenged ones decided that since they have to have one aquarium with water in it, why not put water in several more aquariums they had in retirement.  So now we have 4 55 gallon tanks running.   The question on my mind is, are the fish food, or pets?   One of the goals is to put small Koi in several of the tanks so that we will have larger Koi come spring.   The Koi pond went from several hundred gallons of water to several thousands of gallons when it was enlarged this last fall.  The few Koi and goldfish that were in the old pond are now lost in the new one. 

We are still working on a new home for Stella.   This coming week end she will get to inspect her possible new home.  She needed to wait for fences and dog doors to be in place.  Once she inspects the offered home, she will let us know if there are enough trees, enough squirrels, enough hands and enough room to romp in.  She will be looking for friends in the neighborhood to have play dates with, and inspecting the local dog park.   She will need to test their ball throwing talent and inspect the floor beside the bed where she will sleep, check the brand of dog treats they serve, then she will make up her mind.  She will report back to let us know if it meets with her standards.

Mogley G. Retriever