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Beau Wann, Jr.
HEY KAY ! MY, IT'S BEEN A LONG LONG TIME, "aint it funny how time slips away..." Seems like there could be a song in there somewhere. I've been worried about you, been a couple of years. So glad you decided to get on the forum.
Angel sounds like the perfect friend, of course all dogs are perfect friends if you take the time go get to know one. What was your other pups name? Dont recollect seeing it in your post. What breed? Heinz 57?
The first dog I rescued and kept, was Rocky! Really a strange looking dog, black with grey, or grey with black, large body and head, but short legs. Someone made the mistake of making fun of him...they didnt do it again!
Most loyal dog on the planet, duh, they all are arent they. Found him back at the turn of the century across the street from my moms on DeMilo and Costa Rica. The people there didnt want him and were going to take him to the pound. NO NO NO AND NO, THAT AINT GONNA HAPPEN!
Went to the pet store, got a leash and harness and pup food and bowls and beds and treats and went back to pick him up, if he was still there, and as GOOD LUCK wwould have it, HE WAS! ! ! The lady across the street saw me put him in my truck, and came over and said, "we all knew you would adopt him, had a pool going as to when..."
Poor boy only lived till naught 6, only 6 years old was he. Got some kind of blood disorder that we fougt with blood transfusions and money, but he never turnde the corner. We brought him home from the hospital, got him settled, we all layed down for a nap, and he never woke up. At least he died in a warm familiar place, in front of the fireplace that he loved, with the folks that he loved and that loved him.
At night, he would sit out by the cement pond and raise his nose to high heaven and do his "wolf howl" and man it was eriee. First time I heard him howling, it raised what little hair I had on my head and neck. It wasnt an obnoxious sound like the "yip" and chopped howl of coyotes, or the higher pitched menacing sound of a wolf, but still a primal one, that started out low and seemed to go up the scale and gather strength as it rose. Still miss that sound, as well as the one that made it.
We were going to wait a spell before we rescued another one, or decided to actually GET another one, then I found Cooper. Since all yall have heard "the Cooper" story a zillion times here on the forum, I wont go into detail about him. My eyes get just a tad misty from the good memories of our critters passed.
Our Catahoula, Jack is still with us. although struggling from the effects of "seizures" and the meds to prevent it, plus he has a "turkey leg" cancer of the left rear leg that is inoperable. Jimmie Lee, we use peanut butter to administer pills. You have to be quick, or Jack will take your fingers off. Jack gets 11 pills a day, we use a lot of peanut butter. Both Dixie and Izzy have to have a taste of the PB, as well as I. Amazing how right Mr Pavlov was.
There was a time when Jack was young and agile and very very smart. When I found him, or he found me, he would follow me while I was on the tractor. I was always worried about running over him, but even though he was behind me, he was way ahead of me.
He would follow behind me, and before I turned right or left, he was on the opposite side of the tractor. How he knew which way I was going to turn I dont know, but he knew which way I was going to turn even before I seemed to know. Jack was such a smart dog and very protective of all of us, especially his very close friend Cooper. He's taken on several packs of dogs at different times, protecting me and Cooper, and Jack always came out the winner.
He's 14 now, old like me, still runs, with a noticeable limp, like me, and barks and grins, like me, but the youte has surely left this trusting and loyal friend, like me. But he will be forever young in my mind, like me, as will all the rest of our critters past..."aint it funny how time slips away..."
Speaking of songs, I have a couple of new ones for you. f Notice the smooth transition from pets to music, hardly a seam atall, eh! Anyway, I was watiching PRETTY WOMAN, again, and heard the music for the first time, or actually saw the music with CC. Looked it up on the internet, and VOILA, thar she was ! ! ! (hard to believe that Pretty Woman came out 30 years ago)
"IT MUST HAVE BEEN LOVE" by Roxette, a swedish group, lead singer and keboards, being Marie Fredrikson now deceased, actually she died last december of a brain tumor, she was 61. They put that song out in 86, and then re-released it in 90 when Pretty Woman was in the Theaters. Should have seen or heard it then, but then when the Garden oaks Theater closed, I hardly ever saw a "first run" movie. Generally waited couple of years to see one. My loss for sure.
I cannot get that tune and words out of my head, just love it! It is such a poignant song, so sad, haunting...wish I had a decent voice with a decent range, I'd learn to play that on the guitar and or piano and sing it. I like the key of C, but my key is D and doesnt much vary from there.
The other tune is by AM/FM, no, that's not right...hmmm...AC/DC yeah, that's the ticket..."SHOOT TO THRILL"...dont know when that came out, but I like it, guess it's the driving beat, kind of like Jerry Lees "Whole lotta shakin". Oh and PARADISE CITY by Guns and Roses... I've always been a "late bloomer", very late as it turns out. I am usually centuries behind everyone else for sooth and for sure.
Guess I'd better sing off and make this short...TOO LATE for that eh hoser! It is a nice dark dreary cool day, guess I'll go outside, again, and make the best of it. We actually got one quarter inch of rain with this last cool front, yea. Need all we can get fo sho!
Oh yeah, I was signing off wasnt I...keep the sun at your six and "ride boldly ride..."
Your frien and resident retard, Cephus R Behind As Usual, esq
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