Cactus Flower

Our Rat Killing Dog!  Go, Girl, go!  Last night a rat ran through the kitchen and living room and scrambled into my closet to hide.  Tiny cornered it in the closet.  We banged on the closet to scare it out.  Old Girl dog grabbed it up on its run for its life and squeezed the life out of it!  What a dog!  10 years old and still going strong! We have to deal with lots of critters on the mission field.  Some are ugly like rats.  Oh, how I hate them!  But we can be thankful for good dogs that help protect our house from beasts of all types including thieves!  Our dogs have cornered rats, mice, snakes, possums.  Chased big toads, ran off stray dogs and cats, and attacked a few "intruders" over the years. Thankful for my dogs!

So what's wrong with you?  Dog die? Yup, My dog died ... I was already in an incredible personal slump. My best friend had just left on furlough. Things were not going well at home. Another friend had broken off our friendship. My part-time job was losing its joy Money was getting tight. My boys were growing up way too fast... And then this little book showed up in the mail one day from Booksneeze! It was like a breathe of fresh air at just the right crucial moment.  I had opened the package with the book the morning before the wild night when my twelve year old dog went into total arrest because of canine distemper. As we made the decision to go into the big city to take our old dog to see the vet after a wild night of convulsions and seizures, little phrases from the first pages I had browsed ran through my head.  When the doctor said there was little hope and we considered putting our dear dog to sleep, I just kept repeating to myself that somewhere in all ...