dog angel charm

He's infantry and I want to get his something useful, good and/or just plain special. Any ideas? Or personal experience?
he already has a camera, and an iPod. I was thinking a nice leather journal with memories of us inside and a little guardian angel charm he can wear on his dog tags or shoelace.

The guardian angel sounds nice, or you could get him a really nice pen and have it engraved so he could write to you. Every time he would see it, he would think of how special you are.

2010-01-23 18:37:39 by Faithful

me disturbing my dog with a sock on my arm while she was trying to sleep

My baby girl, Jackie, who would have been one next month simply vanished one week ago. I have had my little angel since she was born and it hurts me deeply to think what could have happened to her. She may have wandered into the front yard when I wasn't looking. Her friendliness an charming personlaity may have lured a stranger to her and her willingness to be held and played with might have caused her to be abducted.

My baby girl had tags with contact info and I have not heard anything. I past out flyers all over the neighborhood and even created a huge billboard-type sign with her picture that says "Have you seen me?". And nothing. The shelters have been part of my weekly trip home from work. And nothing.

I keep thinking she will return or someone will call, but the reality is that I may never see my precious Jackie again. God I miss her. :(

Do you think I should get a new canine friend to feel my void. Nothing can ever replace her though.

I'm sorry you lost your dog. That's sad. :(

I'm sure you will get another dog sometime, but you probably need to wait a while. You want to love the new dog for itself, not as a replacement for Jackie, so you'll need some time to adjust. Then, when you're ready, get a new dog.

2006-06-22 19:03:34 by AnthonyPaul

Price: $14.00 $13.73

Artist designed Pet collar charm
Suitable for engraving on the backside and can double as an ID tag
Enamel Finish

I'll start off by saying I am an animal lover and care deeply about animal welfare. I live in a nice neighborhood and have adequate security on the windows and doors. I spend a lot of time at home and any spare time I have at home with my dogs. My dogs are extremely well taken care of. When I do go out like shopping or appointments or things like that, it doesn't bother me because I go out during the daytime when my bf is home since he works afternoons to night. Basically I schedule anything I need to do around the times when he will be at home so that someone is always home with them.

When the bf and I both need to go somewhere together I'm anxious and scared the whole time I'm out thinking what if something happens. Like a house fire, or if someone breaks in and the dogs run away and they get run over or someone catches them and abuses them or worse they kill my dogs just for the hell of it. If something like that ever happened to my dogs I would be a mess for years and would never get over it.Just thinking about it brings me to tears.

My dogs have both been microchipped, they are both registered and both have separate tags on their collars with my address , phone number and their names. They also have gold guardian angel charms with their names engraved on the backs of them lol. I feel like I've done everything I can do to make sure they are safe and protected. The only thing I haven't done but am considering is getting a gps collar for them both. I have two Jack Russells.

Recently about 5 streets away a bunch of criminals moved into one house together and ever since then I have become even more "paranoid" about the safety of my dogs when I'm not home. Nothing has happened in my street (touch wood) but on their street almost every house has been burgled. My sister's friend lives next door to these people and told my sister that she heard her cat meowing. She looked out the window and they had killed her cat and threw it into a fire they created by setting furniture alight. So she locked her doors because she has a dog and a little girl. She called the RSPCA to report it and they said they couldn't do anything about it because she can't prove it. I was in tears when I heard that, and disgusted that they didn't get in trouble for it. If I saw that happen I wouldn't let it go. I'm wanting to get a full time job so I can buy a house in a nice area that has no government housing and the lowest crime rate. But at the moment I can only do part time work because I want to be home before the bf leaves for work. I've considered dropping my dogs off at my mum's every morning before work and pick them up before I go home after work, then I could work full time. But she said no because she already has 4 dogs and 3 cats. Although she has a large house and her pets are only small and none of them are vicious I don't see why she won't do this it would help me so much.

I hear on the news a lot about animal cruelty, I cry every single time I hear something like that, and I feel a large amount of anger and hatred for the people who committed these evil acts against the animals. It makes me even more mad that most of them get away with it and do it again. Every time I hear about animal cruelty it only makes me more scared for my dogs.


My mum invited me over to her house on Xmas day but I said I will only go if I can bring my dogs, just for piece of mind because Xmas eve and Xmas day are when a lot of break ins happen. She said no at first but then she came around and said yes. I wasn't going to go if she had said no because it's not worth the possibility of something happening to my dogs.

I know people think I'm strange but in dangerous the world we live in today, you can never be too careful.

Sorry about the length of this post, most likely not many people will read the whole thing lol.

I posted this is the mental health and dog section, I'm getting different answers in different categories. I won't change the way I live my life but do find it interesting how other people view this situation. Do you agree that it's normal to want to protect your animals to this length, or not normal ?

Nothing wrong at all.
My two furry boys stay inside when no-one is home. They sleep inside at night and all that stuff.
They are a part of the family and treated as such.

Truth be known, I spoil them but enjoy doing it.

Also I look at it this way, if someone breaks into the house when it is empty what good is it the dogs being outside? At least if they're inside they can have a go at the dirt-bag thief.

Being an animal lover is nothing to worry over.

2009-12-13 13:47:05 by CJ

N.Y. girl, 7, goes home after daring tumor removal

Hours after Heather McNamara charmed millions of television viewers with her eagerness to go home and "play with my dog, Angel, and my big sister," the 7-year-old left a New York hospital where she spent a month recovering from an operation in which doctors took out six vital organs so they could remove a cancerous tumor.

The little girl left the hospital with her parents late Tuesday following a morning news conference in which she answered reporters' questions as best she could — at one point saying to her mother, "I have no idea what 'coping' means" — and after a round of emotional goodbyes with doctors and staff.

Her parents, Tina and Joseph McNamara of Islip Terrace, N.Y., said they had a lot to be thankful for. On Feb. 6, Heather endured a 23-hour operation in which doctors at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital temporarily took out her stomach, pancreas, spleen, liver and large and small intestines in a daring attempt to remove what other surgeons had called an inoperable tumor in her abdomen.

The operation was the first of its kind in a child. Surgeon Tomoaki Kato was unable to replace the girl's stomach, so he fashioned a replacement from her intestine. The cancer had also destroyed her pancreas, making her diabetic, and her spleen, leaving her prone to infections.

This is being called a miracle:
Miracle surgery: Girl 'fantastic' after 6 organs removed, 3 replaced

If the reason for the success of this operation was finding this wonderful surgeon (Surgeon Tomoaki Kato), why is God getting the credit for this miracle?

"why is God getting the credit for this miracle?"
Oh, that's simple ...
Simple carbon-based units KNOW that 'god' does the good stuff; satin does the bad.
Meh ...
~

2009-03-10 21:28:17 by AuroraDawn

When older people are present at table and a child wants to say something, he must be taught to stop eating momentarily and look at his mother, who at the first pause in the conversation will say, "What is it, dear?" And the child then has his say. If he wants merely to launch forth on a long subject of his own conversation, his mother says, "Not now, darling, we will talk about that by and by," or "Don't you see that mother is talking?"

When children are at table alone with their mother, they should not only be allowed to talk but unconsciously trained in table conversation as well as in table manners. Children are all more or less little monkeys in that they imitate everything they see. If their mother treats them exactly as she does her visitors they in turn play "visitor" to perfection. Nothing hurts the feelings of children more than not being allowed to behave like grown persons when they think they are able. To be helped, to be fed, to have their food cut up, all have a stultifying effect upon their development as soon as they have become expert enough to attempt these services for themselves.

Children should be taught from the time they are little not to talk about what they like and don't like. A child who is not allowed to say anything but "No, thank you," at home, will not mortify his mother in public by screaming, "I hate steak, I won't eat potato, I want ice cream!" however sometimes even with a good education, a child's bad character may take over from time to time, if this were to happen, the child should not be beaten up in front of the guests.

Older children should not be allowed to jerk out their chairs, to flop down sideways, to flick their napkins by one corner, to reach out for something, or begin to eat nuts, fruit or other table decorations. A child as well as a grown person should sit down quietly in the center of his chair and draw it up to the table (if there is no one to push it in for him) by holding the seat in either hand while momentarily lifting himself on his feet. He must not "jump" or "rock" his chair into place at the table. In getting up from the table, again he must push his chair back quietly, using his hands on either side of the chair seat, and not by holding on to the table edge and giving himself, chair and all, a sudden shove! There should never be a sound made by the pushing in or out of chairs at table.

No young human being, any more than a young dog, has the least claim to attractiveness unless it is trained to manners and obedience. The child that whines, interrupts, fusses, fidgets, and does nothing that it is told to do, has not the least power of attraction for any one, even though it may have the features of an angel and be dressed like a picture. Another that may have no claim to beauty whatever, but that is sweet and nicely behaved, exerts charm over every one.

When possible, a child should be taken away the instant it becomes disobedient. It soon learns that it can not "stay with mother" unless it is well-behaved. This means that it learns self-control in babyhood. Not only must children obey, but they must never be allowed to "show off" or become pert, or to contradict or to answer back; and after having been told "no," they must never be allowed by persistent nagging to win "yes."

A child that loses its temper, that teases, that is petulant and disobedient, and a nuisance to everybody, is merely a victim, poor little thing, of parents who have been too incompetent or negligent to train it to obedience. Moreover, that same child when grown will be the first to resent and blame the mother's mistaken "spoiling" and lack of good sense.

If a hostess says, "Good-bye, give my love to your mother!" the child answers, "Yes, Mrs. Smith." In all monosyllabic replies a child must not say "Yes" or "No" or "What?" A boy in answering a gentleman still uses the old-fashioned "Yes, sir," "No, sir," "I think so, sir," but ma'am has gone out of style. Both boys and girls must therefore answer, "No, Mrs. Smith," "Yes, Miss Jones." A girl says "Yes, Mr. Smith," rather than "sir." All children should say, "What did you say, mother?" "No, father," "Thank you, Aunt Kate," "Yes, Uncle Fred," etc.

They need not insert a name in a long sentence nor with "please," or "thank you." "Yes, please," or "No, thank you," is quite sufficient. Or in answering, "I just saw Mary down in the garden," it is not necessary to add "Mrs. Smith" at the end.

Well there's nothing to fault in that lot. You'd have to say that is the proper way to educate a young Lord. Any youngster would benefit from that.

Er, golly, what more can I say?

2009-12-13 12:15:59 by The Gentleman