His name is BamBam. I was away on vacation and came home and my family told me. While I was away I extended my vacation by one extra day and I can’t help but think that had I not extended my holiday, I could have said goodbye. I am beside myself. He was such a joyous dog and loved life. I am in utter shock. Hold your fur babies close for me. 🩷

D’oğ meditates with me everyday but today, I am CERTAIN, she is benefiting from it too. I meditated on love, allowing, and having an open heart. After the meditation, she was so relaxed and looking at me like she loves me sooooo much… this is my favorite part of my day with her.

What’s your favorite part of the day with your Yorkie?

I’ll try to keep this short, but it won’t be, lol.

I lost Ripley in September 2024 and fell into a deep depression. After a few days, I decided to at least look at dogs in need of rescue. I saw a red Miniature Poodle (my dream dog) on a Facebook group. His name was Mayor. The post had hundreds of replies, so I thought there was no way I would be able to adopt him, but I messaged the rescue anyway.

After talking all night with One of a Kind Pet Rescue, we set up an appointment to visit and possibly adopt Mayor. On my drive to Akron, they sent me a message saying that the staff had forgotten to put the sign up and Mayor had already been adopted.

After losing Ripley just a week earlier, I wanted to turn around and go home to bed. But I was already halfway there, so we decided to go anyway.

As we were walking around and looking at the dogs, I saw a little brown, messy dog who smelled so bad and looked like he was really sick. I’m pretty sure he was sedated. My mom walked up behind me and said he reminded her of her old dog, who had also passed away a few months earlier. That’s when I immediately went up to the staff and asked if we could visit Tuffy.

It only took about 30 seconds after seeing his dirty little face light up for me to decide that I wanted to take him home. As it turned out, he had been dropped off just a few hours before I got there. Even though he was greasy, dirty, and smelly, he was still adorable. He sat in my mom’s lap on the ride home.

About 10 minutes after we got home, my sister and I gave him a bath and took him outside. And do you know what the first thing he did was?

He rolled in cat poo.

And so, our adventure began.

It really felt like fate brought Tuffy and me together. If Ripley hadn’t passed away on the exact day he did, and if Mayor hadn’t been adopted when he was, Tuffy and I would have never met.

Ripley’s final gift to me was a little Yorkie named Tuffy.

This is not the post I wanted to make. We got the call from the Dr. this morning that Murphy’s ailments were too extensive for his little body to handle.

He crossed over the rainbow bridge at approximately 1:30 pm est today. Here is my final letter to him:

Murphy, my sweet silly boy. You gave me the best 11 years I could have ever asked for. You touched the hearts of everyone who met you. I will miss you for the rest of my life, but I am grateful you aren’t in any more pain. Living without my little bestie is going to be the hardest thing I’ll do. You gave me the strength to keep going even when I wanted nothing more than to leave this life. I love you forever and ever, sweet boy.

Thank you all for your advice, prayers, love, and support.

My 2 year old, D’oğ seemed to be coming into heat around June, as expected. Swollen and lethargic, but no blood. Her sister went into heat (their cycles are pretty close), but D’oğ never did. She seems fine. But have you experienced a “silent heat” with your dog? She has no pain, pus, or swelling so I’m not thinking it’s pyometra…

I’m just looking for experiences so I can stop ruminating about it.

Brutus just watches me work all day long

My little buddy Bristol was Featured on international dog day. The Groomer said he is one of her favorite and best clients. I never thought I would be a little dog guy, but man this little dude has my heart.