Tuesday, October 1, 2024

I have 5,000 friends on my Facebook page...

 


...I am happy to say that the maximum is 5K that we are allowed and I have maintained that number of "friends" for over a dozen years! I recently broke the 300 mark for followers in that area too; it has been slow going now, most recently, it jumped up from the 270s to 332! I have been on Facebook since 2008.

I have watched when I occasionally lose someone and then I go to the friends requests part of my site and go through people's pictures and pages to see if we have the same mindset and if they have an interesting background!

If they do not write anything I usually delete their request.

I had made a mistake a few times with gun-ho racist or hate-mongers trying to get on my site and to my astonishment I was shocked at their writings on my page! I rack that up to not vetting them as I have learned since. And do it now all of the time!

I tend to pick people who in the photos put the same political persons I like too, pet lovers and inoculation people get my attention too! I like well-educated people too, so I might learn from them. I appreciate people who aren't too much trying to talk you into their way of thinking, about life, business fashion, design, etc....but talk about or show you their ideas without being judgy about others!

I don't know... how do you decide?

Like here  I have an open-book attitude about my things and hopefully find others that do too?


Allow me to introduce you to the crew...

Lastly, moving on to who they are, our crew...
3 months, and ... now 6!


   
Aussie, say good day!

I am Aussie, not from Australia, but American-made. 
I will comply because it is fun and say good day!

I am called Aussie because my mom asked a sixteen-year-old girl looking at me in the crate I was in at the adoption site that day what she thought I should be named. Mom asked her age, but not her name—ha! And without hesitation, the teenager said Aussie! By the way, she was just looking, so my mom did not steal me from her.
We never discovered the girl's name; Mom liked Aussie, too. Since then, we have found that it is a ubiquitous name, but it is still just right for me! My parents think that I am uncommon, even unique! I do like that.
I am an Australian Shepherd, a red Merl. And here is an interesting factoid about me: I was supposed to be a miniature Australian Shepherd, but as you might know, I AM NOT! I am a standard Australian Shepherd! Although I am now six years old, I am the baby,.I am the largest of fur babies, and due to my breed and being standard, I am just right, 
I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me. I had been taken- out of a hoarder's home in the Carolinas with my litter. 
Above is my PIC, taken on the birthday I share with my dad, but dad is much older than me!!! I was the first to be adopted, on February 16, 2018, on Dad's brother's birthday.
No tail/tale publishing, circa 2018.
Get it? I was born without a tail, preferable for all Australian Shepherds; only one out of five are born that way!

                                           

Hello, I am Bella. In the picture above, I am a Maltese Yorkie and a Morkie. I might be ten years old. We are all rescues, so no one knows our ages for sure. I am the middle child, so I am what you would expect, with all those idiosyncrasies accompanying that! Being the only girl has its rewards as well as its difficulties. 
My previous family turned me in, stating that Imisbehavedg with their elderly dog. It had been said that I was driving him crazy! I was the second to be adopted on 8/18/18, clearing out the shelters' day!
My record called me Belle, so for no known reason, Mom decided I was more of a Bella, beautiful either way!




Hey, wait! Please don't forget me! I am Chance, pictured above, a Bichon Frise! I am 12-ish years old, so they think, and the eldest, and I like getting up early with mom and Aussie. Bella sleeps late with Dad, till after seven most days, even later sometimes! 

I enjoy a good tug-a-war on the ropes Dad had twisted for Aussie and me, and sometimes even Bella plays, too! I was the last to be adopted on January 23, 2020. 

I had been wandering the neighborhood for days when I saw Aussie and Bella in their living room window, so I hung out there. 

The animal control lady had been called and came out to see if I had a chip I.D. with her machine, and Dad told her that he wanted to name me Chance. His reason is that if no one claimed me, "I want to give him a second chance!" So that is how I got the name Chance!

The Animal Welfare League checked me out and kept me for sixteen

days until I was allowed to be adopted. Good evening.

Easy as Aussie, Bella, and Chance, now you got it! In order of adoption!

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