Four legged hairy babies...

Quiet, oddly enough can be deafening truly.

Anyone who has had a loving pet or let’s say children that had grown and left the nest was the first quieted sadness one might experience, called empty nest syndrome. http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-living/adult-health/in-depth/empty-nest-syndrome/art-20047165

Yes, it is a real thing, all the professionals say so anyway and so it has to be true, right?

Sadness when that occurs is enormous!

But with children we all know that some how they manage to come back… but when our four legged children/loving pets leave it is usually due to death!

(Hopefully never ever our two legged children, but sorrowfully that happens too.)

But even with the four legged variety of kids, especially if you like us had them for over forty years in your home and as part of your family, not one person is going to argue that hole of absence is great and hurts to no end as if you had given birth to them, okay not that but, even an adoption of any child two or four legged is a major decision.

And so today Hubby and I took a leap of faith and had been weighing all our options of our lifestyle, realizing that children have always fit into our lives…both kinds that is!

So we went over to the shopping area that has a Petco, where every Saturday from 11-2 they bring in rescue pups and today was all small ones the kind we are partial to.

Two there stole our hearts, a cutey timid gal called Fancy a purebred Havanese of four, and a full of energy little guy about a year or two old named Gaston who is of mixed heritage, most likely Havanese and Shih Tzu with other non-denominational nationalities thrown into the mix, both around twelve pounds each, just the right size.

Now, unbeknownst to us, since we had not adopted a rescue before there is much to do before acquiring a loving pet from them, like filling out an application and then there is the home inspection. We had gone to facilities that had dogs there for all those years and you just would adopt accordingly with a fee or shockingly mostly a home breeder and pet shops and lest not us forget the freebies of Hurricane Andrew’s Andrew our collie Shepard mix pup as well as Mandy our black and white cat who someone put into our garage and we just heard a kitten meowing!

Sure we have grown and learned that the best pets are the ones needing homes from rescues or The Animal Welfare League or ASPCA etc.

Sure we have had many pets over the years and not one lives as long as us people do, and in our heart of hearts we all know that.

But sadness is as deafening as the quietness in a home when the last of a very long line of pets had been there and then goes silent; did I tell you it was for over forty years that we had all of them?

So in reality we had never been pet-less ever!

We had pets when we were kids and both of us left them with our parents when we married.

They needed something to fill their hole in their hearts since we had left…

Any-who, what I am trying to say, we determined that as much as we go here or there we are still pretty much home bodies and when you come home and no little ones are there to welcome you that is where the quiet is very much oh so deafening and heart breaking…

It’s been forty-eight days since Skipper died Gosh until I counted I did not realize that is way too long…and we are both still thinking we hear him. I even awoke when I thought I heard his bark in my sleep…we both have admitted that we thought we had heard his collar rustling, that chain noise, but his was cloth and it was his license and name tag that made that tinny noise that we heard.

Hubby and I do not believe we are crazy, but some may believe otherwise…

IT IS JUST SO DAMN QUIET and no snuggles anymore; from a loving pet that is, so we went just to look but did put in a request for the two above and if we pass the muster:

“Pass muster | Define Pass muster at Dictionary.com

verb (used with object) 1. to assemble (troops, a ship's crew, etc.), as for battle, display, inspection, orders, or discharge. 2. to gather, summon, rouse” http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pass+muster

, whatever that means we will become parents again! So now we all know.

Now we have to wait for their decision and home inspection I sure hope we pass…!

On that note filled once again with hope, since we are also old enough to be grandparents but do not have any grandkids and you CAN adopt pets but not grandkids as easily, who knows, although many have both…maybe them too, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask all of you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!