Have You Seen This Dog?

My life has been topsy turvy! I have struggled with instability at my office where I work. Each day I feel like I am heading into war. It is a battle zone, someone there suffering from some sort of hatred for others, festering, feeling so disconnected. So I pray. Then I pray harder and this week God is taking His time answering. I will ask for prayer right now before I have to grab my Kleenex box!

When I got back from dropping the hubby at the bus and Nick at school I went about my usually morning ritual, loading the dishwasher, checking the laundry, filling the water bowls for all the pets. I did not see Tink. I assumed because she is getting weaker she is sleeping with my Tillie in her bed. Now to make a long story short, my Tillie is my middle daughter. She is my girl that loves her little dog. Tillie is my pet name for my sweet college girl. No one else can call her Tillie. Someday I will tell you the story behind Tillie but today I am sad. Tink is missing. It appears that someone let her out last night. She ran because she has good days and she has bad days. Tinkerbell is an onery girl, she has always been a runner. We think someone hurt her when she was a puppy and running was her defense. But 14 years with us never changed her. My sweet Tillie started feeding her home cooked food. My sister-in-law Lois is a big advocate of home cooked food for pets. Her dog has a derm condition and feeding her things like beef or chicken with rice and veggies is better for her digestive system and all that jazz! So Tillie took to cooking for her dog. Tinkerbell is the reason I decided to start blogging back in November 2009. She is suffering with liver disease and the ole gal is going blind and deaf. She has lost control of her bladder and it is not pretty. But last night she ran and we can not find her.She has a microchip, $85 for being the owner of a "bad dog" who can not stay home. A lot of good it is doing us now. When my Tillie called the dog pound an extremely rude woman told her a dog fitting that description to a "T" was found mauled to death by a coyote! She said if there was a chip there was no way to id the dog! Then she said, oops, that dog was found two nights ago! Sorry!

Our only hope now is that someone kind found her and is caring for her. My daughter is devastated. But in her grief she wrote the most remarkable outline regarding her favorite book, or one of her favorites, Jane Austens "Pride and Prejudice". It is too complicated to try to explain when I am tired and sad but this girl has such talent and the high school kids she has been student teaching LOVE her! She has some sort of mesmerizing quality that draws you into the classics. She can make Shakespeare sound like he is not BORING! She is tuckered out. So she is trying to get some rest and tomorrow she will put up some posters around the neighborhood.

I will just ask you all to pray. Perhaps to some it sounds very silly but to a little girl who grew into such a remarkable young woman, of whom I am so extremely proud, that little poodle is a part of her life and her heart is breaking. If nothing else I am praying whoever found her will care for her because she is getting sicker and her tumors are growing on her little curly head and back.

Life is hard. My mother always said "Pray harder."