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I love my angel animals

christinajeanne — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:52:51 -0500

I've always thought my animals where angels. I remeber crying one time and my cat who has since passed away came up and put her paw on my face. It was so sweet! I have the sweetest cat's right now who cheer me up everyday.

Have a good Easter!!

KLinnea — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:23:41 -0500

Sofie the Hamster and I wish you a good Easter holliday.

http://linneadiary.blogspot.com/

thanks for your kind words

Mata H — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 20:31:23 -0500

I didn't know about the happy fate of those dogs. I am so glad they are finding love and peace.

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

The Vicktory Dogs - another example of spiritual teachers

LaurelH — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:14:10 -0500

I loved this post! Another example is the pit bulls formerly owned by Michael Vick, who were transferred to the care of Best Friends Animal Society and are thriving in spite of the terrible past they endured. May they know nothing but love and kindness for the rest of their days.

Laurel Hunt, celebrating the love of dogs at www.laurelhuntbooks.com

Thanks!

Affair of the Heart — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 17:54:38 -0500

Thanks for the comment! =) I believe there is some encouragement from women to have a lingerer stick around. I'm guilty of having guyfriends to fill voids. I'm now in a serious relationship with someone, and I've dropped 98% of my guyfriends. There are one or two I talk to, but that's it. When you've found the real thing, you find that all of those voids you've been filling with other guy "friends" has been filled by that one person.

If you have any suggestions for other advice entries, let me know! I'll be sure to post another in tonight or tomorrow

*Love* Samantha

"Maybe Some Women Aren't Meant to be Tamed. Maybe They Need to Run Free Until They Find Someone Just As Wild to Run With" -- Sex and the City

Lingerers are Luggage

SocialiteDani — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 16:38:09 -0500

You are so right on every different type of "friend" a gal can have. I mean, the friends can be more complicated than the boyfriends sometimes. I, for one, don't think real-strictly platonic male friends exist. Like you said about the one's who check-in and then check-out, I can't respect that. I don't want some girl "friend" sitting in the shadows checking in on my beau. That would surely piss me off. I have three male "friends." One is my cousin, so he almost doesn't count except that he's my very best friend on the planet. My other great guy friend was my boyfriend in 9th grade. We've never had a sexual relationship, and now, we both know that romance is not in our cards. My last great guy friend is also my business partner in a music venture. He ALSO has two baby mamas, one being PSYCHO. So, yeah, he kicked himself out of the potentials category all on his own. Now, he treats me more like a kid sister and loves to remind me of my worth to one of the few deserving guys in the world. Any other "friend" of mine secretly wants to "do" me when my guy isn't looking or when I have my current status: Single Gal in the City.

Now lingerers - I blame us! We often allow guys to linger until we find something better to do. Simply, we have that "I don't know what to do with my hands" complex. Rather than accept being "alone" we allow a guy to be our kinda-sorta ex/ sorta-kinda boyfriend until we find some man to take us on another long, unnecessary ride. I learned that I had to engulf myself in movies, theatre, and Sex and the City JUST to avoid giving my ex permission to linger. Basically - they don't linger unless we allow it. And why do we want the guy around at all? Once it's over, it needs to be over. Now 'scuse me as I go and try to follow my own assvice. ;-)

Great blog, girly!

Socialite Dani's

thanks, wilma

Mata H — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:28:03 -0500

We are a good match for our pets, and they for us -- the yin and yang of teaching and learning...and then switching roles. The balance is beautiful.

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

Meaning making mind is missing

Wilma Ham — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 17:11:43 -0500

I too love this post. Pets are such great teachers and they definitely show what is possible when the heart is the master and NOT the mind.
I once read that when the mind becomes the master of the heart we will enter a world of less competition, no judgment and more love.
It is easy to see what that means when you read your post :)

Wilma Ham

www.wilmasblog.com

thanks!

Mata H — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:47:50 -0500

You may know about Christian the Lion, as his video was recently featured on a lot of talk shows. Amazing story. See it here on YouTube

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

Animal Angels, Indeed

ClizBiz — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:30:54 -0500

Love, love, LOVE this post, Mata. Several of these stories made me reach for a tissue. (I such a sucker for a good animal story.) I had not heard about Nubs but his story is so heartwarming and amazing.

I really appreciate you outlining the spiritual lessons humans can learn from animals. There are many days when I read the headlines and then wonder if we humans have 'evolved' at all. All that we go through in the name of attaining 'happiness and so-called 'contentedness' is so much extraneous thrashing.

Animals know more about this than we could ever understand ... but this post is a good start!

~ClizBiz

BlogHer Contributing Editor, Animal Concerns, Proprietor, ClizBiz

Thanks Kathi

Mata H — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:48:00 -0500

The deep lessons taught to us by animals are what fuel my rage at animal abuse. That is so wonderful that you and Heidi did the therapy dog activities. I am sure it meant a great deal to people. And I can feel through your words the learning you had from Jake. Animals of all sorts can inspire, if we let them.

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

All of my animals have taught me something

vomviersen — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 01:02:10 -0500

I've learned something from every one of my animals. Two of them had much bigger lessons to teach than the others, though. Heidi was my first Rottweiler and a therapy dog. Our visits to group homes for physically and mentally challenged young adults taught me so much about the human-animal bond, both my bond with Heidi, and hers with the residents of the homes. Jake was also a Rottweiler, who I had purchased specifically for competition in a sport. He suffered a career-ending accidental injury which resulted in amputation. His original purpose was for us to teach each other about one sport, but ultimately he taught me so much more about how life can go on even when your so-carefully made plans can't. Thank you for your post and the great links within.

vomviersen :: Kathi Wilson
http://brilliant-disguise.net/looktwice/

Well, I think cats have their own way of teaching

Mata H — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 11:05:26 -0500

Cats certainly teach us to give without expecting a return. There is a lot of value in that lesson!

~~ Contributing Editor, Mata H. also blogs right along at Time's Fool

Kitty love not a one-way street?

Beth Terry — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 20:24:00 -0500

Thank you for posting this article. I notice most of the stories are about dogs. I always figured my love for my kitties was a one-way street. They act like they love me when they want something... food, a warm body, something to relieve their boredom. I adore them, but I never assume they recipropcate any such human emotions.

The story about the cat in the nursing home has made me rethink my relationship to them. They obviously have a job to do. I just don't know what it is. Thanks.

Beth Terry

www.fakeplasticfish.com

@fakeplasticfish

Privacy Concerns

JC — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:14:12 -0500

I just joined Blogher about two minutes ago, but I just had to post. Privacy is an issue I've been struggling with. My husband and I started a website a few months ago. It's a children's story/project website, and as part of the site, I also started a blog. When my husband posted the stories we'd written, he decided to use pen names, so my blog followed suit, using my initials JC. When I write about my son, I use a different name for him.

I struggled with the idea of using my own name for my stories, but something in the back of my head said to keep a bit of anonymity. After all, the Web is a very large place. Recently, we've gotten a series of emails from a person who wants to contribute and, let's just say this person is a bit too interesting for me. At this point I'm really glad we have pseudonyms now.

One thing my husband has reminded me of: once you write something for publication on the internet, it's there forever.

http://www.storyrhyme.com/jcsblog