Welcome to my first Paper.Ink.Paws. blog!
By now you’ve probably seen a bit of the Facebook page and website. Thank you so much for diving in deeper, into blog territory. This first Blog will also be shown on the Facebook page. As things settle in, I will have the blog only on our website and show more local rescue animals available on the Facebook page. I will also share the animal visits and artwork I create on Facebook, but the most detailed information for the art available and adoptable animals I meet will remain on the website.
Like many of the people reading this blog, I grew up loving all critters. Hearing the birds in our backyard lifts my heart. I love feeding my backyard birds AND squirrels, though I’m not so sure my neighbors appreciate the latter. Of course, I go out of my way to pet any dog I can get to. It can get a bit out of control, as in I almost stole a neighbors Basset Hound once, because I had NEVER seen him at their house before. I was sure he was a stray. But that’s a story for another time (spoiler alert, he was NOT a stray!). Erik (tech support for Paper.Ink.Paws.) has often declared I have a puppy radar, and I believe that’s true. I can see a sweet little shape of a dog a block or two ahead of us, and can tell by its silly rompy gate, or the way its tail is so much larger than one expects, that it’s a Labrador puppy! There have been quite a few times when I squeal from the car as we pass a puppy. Erik, (Also known to Oliver as the Walking All-You-Can-Eat Treat Buffet!!!) asks, “Should I just stop the car and let you out and you can walk home from here?” I quite often answer in the affirmative with the sound of a car door slamming as I race towards the puppy. I just can’t help myself, part of it is the puppy breath thing. Some people don’t like puppy breath. I LOVE it, even if it smells a bit like epoxy to me. The other part is just getting to be near the pure joy inside the puppy, while deftly pulling my hand away from the razors called puppy teeth. PUPPIES, one of mother nature’s finest gifts!
Thank you for your interest in our new adventure. I hope to start sharing a new adoptable animal blog in MAY. Until then, happy trails with happy tails.
Sandy & Oliver
Wow Sandy! Congratulations on breaking out on a new adventure! What a great way to incorporate your art with your amazing love for animals! Wishing you smooth sailing and many joys! Cindy
We have a Lab named Dixie that we rescued from a dump. She has scars all over her body. She was very sick when we rescued her. Now, she is a total foodie! She has stolen two or three rotisserie chickens from the kitchen and eaten the entire thing which really scared us. She also ate our entire dinner of pigs in a blanket-in the blink of an eye! 🤣
Jessica, Dixie sounds wonderful and very lucky. I. can’t believe you happened to find her at the dump! That was certainly meant to be. She sounds like a rascal! As you might gather from my response to Cindy, I am rather slow responding to the replies! SHEESH. I will get the hang of this, it’s fun! THANKS for sharing your story.
THANKS CINDY!!! Great to hear from you. Wow, I am so new to this type of interface, I hadn’t expected to have feed back here, and yet, OF COURSE there should be discourse here. But I was still surprised to find this just now, hence the slow response to you. I am very excited to get moving on this new journey. I’m posting my second blog today and working in my studio!
Delightful site—hugs and kudos to you, Erik and Ollie!
Thank you Kate!! I’m glad you visited the site and hope you’ll come back soon! As noted earlier today, I have NOT gotten the hang of this yet! I hadn’t updated the pending replies (I really didn’t know they existed!) or seen 2 of them, yours included! I’m working on adding the second blog now. HA! I’m such a non techie. No matter how simple it’s supposed to be.