Re: Choosing the right dog

"Having read many of your posts, I would suggest this for you: Just go and see some dogs and ask them (silently), "Are we right for each other? Will we heal each other? Will our partnership be mutually beneficial?" .. and then listen inside. Feel what you feel ... you'll have a knowing when the right dog comes."

Maya,

When reading your answer to previous post...the above advise reminded me of myself and what happened to me 6 years ago. I had just lost two cats and a dog to old age. I was at my local pet food store, that does not sell pets but every Sunday has pet adoption day for local rescue groups. My two remaining dogs (both rescue)and I were socializing with all the people and animals there. While standing and looking at some cats in cages and wishing that I could take them all home with me. I heard a voice in my head saying, "I'm coming home with you."...I looked down and there was a 6 month old grey and black tiger striped kitten in a cage. He had enormous green eyes and was looking right at me. I said, to myself, "No, you're not."

One of the ladies who worked in the group came up to me and strted talking...during our converstation, I mentioned that I had just lost three of my furry friends. She said that I needed another cat. While we were talking, the tiger stripe told me agiain, "I'm coming home with you."...once again, silently, I told him that he wasn't.

Another of the ladies came up and started talking with the first one. And during our conversation for the third time the tiger stripe once again told me that he was coming home with me...each time I heard this he was looking staight at me and made eye contact when I looked at him. Once again, I told him that he couldn't. One of the women went to his cage and picked him up and said that he would make a good kitty for me...that his family had just brought him to the store...turned him in because he was biting and they didn't want him any more. The lady said that she didn't want him to have to start living in a cage. I told her that I didn't have the money for the adoption fee nor the money to have him neutered.

They told me that they knew from talking to me that I would be a good home for the kitten, so they would waive the adoption fee and give me a free neuter certificate. To make a long story shorter, they gave me a carrier to bring him home...waived the adoption fee and gave a free certificate and a free bag of food. While all of this was happening I told one of the ladies that the kitten had told me 3 times that he was coming home with me and that I had been telling him no!

Guess who was right! Yep, the tiger stripe...

Brought him home...found out that even though he hadn't been neutered he had been de-clawed (which I am vehemently against). The de-clawing was the reason he had started biting...I had him broke of biting in a weeks time by working with him. He also when straight to one of my sisal rope scratching posts and started scratching. He still uses the posts and it hurts my heart each time I see him do so as he didn't have to be de-clawed.

He has the sweetest disposition and is a lover...

I named him...

Mojo!

He surely put a magic spell on me!

~~Ailsa
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