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Your beloved pet has crossed over the rainbow.

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    October 14, 2022 12:35 PM CDT

    If you haven't figured it out from all the animal pictures I post, which are usually of my dogs, then you should know that I love dogs, cats, people pets and all animals, and I would advocate for their safety and care both domestic and wild animals too.

    I have had the breed Pomeranian's in my life since about 2007. I love all of the dogs from the Spitz family of dogs that include Chow Chow's, Akita's, Huskies, Alaskan Malamute, American Eskimo Dog, Samoyed's' and so many more. The link below is a beautiful introductory page of the Spitz breeds from the American Kennel Club website.

    The Spectacular Spitz Breeds

    My first Pom family of dogs have all passed now, RIP, my beloved, Isabella, Chella, and Champy Bear. When the last of this litter family passed, my sweet Isabella, my heart was broken, and I really didn't feel like I could have another dog in my life. Months passed and my husband felt that my decision to not have pets in my life was rather contradictory to my nature that I really needed to reassess and consider finding a puppy again to enrich our household. Animals, by their sweet nature, calm us when we need that moment the most, because they are sweet and loyal and stand by us and want to be near us all the time. I carefully considered bringing another animal in the home but wasn’t sure if I had the mental bandwidth to rear another puppy as I was still grieving.

    Curiously, I went to the internet and started searching for pom puppies. I found an abundant number of pet breeder choices, but most of the private breeders required a substantial drive. By chance, I located a private breeder that had a local shop. My daughter and I went to the shop and learned that they have some pom puppies available. We scheduled an appointment to see them the next day.

    If you are thinking that there are so many dogs in animal shelters that need homes rather then going to a breeder, I understand and respect your opinion, and agree that there are many wonderful dogs deserving a loving home. For me, at this time in my life, my grief was so great for the loss of my last dog, Isabella, that I wanted another Pom as much like her as possible.

    Our appointment at the pet store, was early in the morning. My daughter, her boyfriend and I went with anticipation to see these new puppies. While we waited at the store for them to be brought out, we learned that both were boys and brothers. Do you see the problem already with my decision to buy one puppy? How could I split up brothers? The pom brothers were brought out to meet us. They were dressed in really cute dog clothes and were both under two pounds.

    *This concludes the first entry on my experience and I will detail our puppy experience at the store in my next installment.

  • Web Diva
    Leader
    January 18, 2023 3:19 PM CST
    Writing about your pets and how much they mean to you can be rather difficult and thinking about my Isabella, Champy Bear Senior and Chella, just brings a smile for all of the good memories I had with them, but also rather a melancholy moment because I'll always miss them. One of the reasons I had a hard time coming back to this discussion on your pets crossing the rainbow. In missing them, I'm also blessed with the current pack of fluff running around my house. Two pom's and one tiny Chihuahua.

    So, I'll follow up to the last paragraph from my first post and write from where I left off.



    We were at the pet store, having a wonderful time playing with these two puppies that were brothers. The orange and white parti colored pom was an escape artist from the beginning and the sable was so adorable when he just plops down and sits to look at you. I captured a picture of him doing that the first day we met these puppies and to this day, he still will sit down and look up at you with this amazing adorable "love me now" face.

    As you can guess we did come home with these puppies. We went through a series of name sets, which did include Thor and Loki, simply because it was so funny. Here these little pom puppies, not even two pounds and to name them Thor and Loki would have been funny. My husband on the other hand felt those names would loose favor/age after some time, so after much debate in my house, their names became Snowy Bear (orange and white parti pom) and Champy Bear (sable). There's always been some form of "Champ" name in our pet family.

    Our pom brothers have now celebrated their four year old birthday on January 2, 2023.

    Two years ago, my also husband wanted a Chihuahua, like the Chihuahua on the 1990's Taco Bell commercials. We now have a micro-Chi-Chi named Gidget, just like the real Gidget of the commercials. She is only 4 pounds and also a very sweet dog. Chihuahua's/Chi-Chi's are totally different from your typical dog....different mannerisms and personality. She mostly lives under a blanket all day and sun's herself like a cat every afternoon from the sunlight that comes in the back door. Grateful for these little dogs!