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Jhemphill · 12-11-2006, 02:17 PM

That story infuriates me. When my husband and I got our first dog, which lived to be 16 years old, he was a Shih Tu my daughter was 5 years old. My husband was in the Navy so we moved every 3 years. We always found places to live that excepted dogs, we just scraping by, because we had decided that I would stay home with our daughter, so we had one income and a low ranking military income at that. When we moved to Illinois for my husband to work as a company commander at the recruit training center Great Lakes, we were having a hard time finding some where that would except dogs and were running out of relocation money. We were at the last place and my husband said to me if this one does not except dogs what are we going to do? I look at him and told him that my daughter, Wickett (the dog), Sparkles (the goldfish, yes we transported a gold fish from Jacksonville FL to Great Lakes IL) and I would be driving back to Florida until we could get Navy Housing. He said to me you would pick Wickett over me and with out a moments hesitation I said yes. From that moment on he has know where he ranks in my life and we have been married 27 years. Luckily the apartments excepted dogs and we all lived happily ever after. We even have an urn on the fire place with Wickett's ashes in it. Kevin (husband) know how I feel about animals that you take into your home, they are you responsibility for as long as they live and that you have in place a plan for them in case you die or become incapacitated and can no longer take care of them. Animals in our house are members of the family not disposable possession. We had an ice storm a couple of years ago and were with our power for several days, at that time we did not have Maximus, but my daughter and son-in-law had a dog. My brother-in law at power and told us that we could come and stay with him, when I asked about the animals he said they could stay in the garage, I promptly told him no thanks that we would find somewhere else, that I was not going to have my grand dog stay in a freezing garage. So we took my sick (bronchitis) son-in-law, daughter, dog and Guinea pig almost two hours down the road in the middle of the night, to a hotel that my husband (he was in New York at the time) had found us that excepted dogs. So you can see why your story makes my blood boil. I feel for you Debbie, it takes a great person to do what you do, and I am glad that there are people like you that are able to help the helpless. Bless you.

12-11-2006, 02:17 PM	#10 (permalink)
Jhemphill Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Raleigh NC Posts: 191 Images: 10	That story infuriates me. When my husband and I got our first dog, which lived to be 16 years old, he was a Shih Tu my daughter was 5 years old. My husband was in the Navy so we moved every 3 years. We always found places to live that excepted dogs, we just scraping by, because we had decided that I would stay home with our daughter, so we had one income and a low ranking military income at that. When we moved to Illinois for my husband to work as a company commander at the recruit training center Great Lakes, we were having a hard time finding some where that would except dogs and were running out of relocation money. We were at the last place and my husband said to me if this one does not except dogs what are we going to do? I look at him and told him that my daughter, Wickett (the dog), Sparkles (the goldfish, yes we transported a gold fish from Jacksonville FL to Great Lakes IL) and I would be driving back to Florida until we could get Navy Housing. He said to me you would pick Wickett over me and with out a moments hesitation I said yes. From that moment on he has know where he ranks in my life and we have been married 27 years. Luckily the apartments excepted dogs and we all lived happily ever after. We even have an urn on the fire place with Wickett's ashes in it. Kevin (husband) know how I feel about animals that you take into your home, they are you responsibility for as long as they live and that you have in place a plan for them in case you die or become incapacitated and can no longer take care of them. Animals in our house are members of the family not disposable possession. We had an ice storm a couple of years ago and were with our power for several days, at that time we did not have Maximus, but my daughter and son-in-law had a dog. My brother-in law at power and told us that we could come and stay with him, when I asked about the animals he said they could stay in the garage, I promptly told him no thanks that we would find somewhere else, that I was not going to have my grand dog stay in a freezing garage. So we took my sick (bronchitis) son-in-law, daughter, dog and Guinea pig almost two hours down the road in the middle of the night, to a hotel that my husband (he was in New York at the time) had found us that excepted dogs. So you can see why your story makes my blood boil. I feel for you Debbie, it takes a great person to do what you do, and I am glad that there are people like you that are able to help the helpless. Bless you. Last edited by Jhemphill; 12-11-2006 at 02:19 PM.