In’s & Out’s of the Thaden Family

I noticed while playing with Lucas from time to time he gets a second wind. What I mean by that is that he’ll be panting like crazy, but like a burst of adrenaline, he’ll explode with energy and excitement.
That happened tonight when he tried to hump me. See, I saw him get his second wind [...]

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This is Darryl’s dog… he is not mine when he lays on my pillows and gets his fur all over my bed and drools on my side… he is not my dog when he runs around the house from window to window trying to watch for squirrels & other animals

He is not my dog when [...]

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I’ve been thinking about this lately. See we call each other momma and diddy to Lucas. Don’t know why, it’s just something we did. Now does that mean we look at our pup as a human child? Certainly not. Maybe it’s some sort of instinctual thing for us to call each other his momma [...]

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Our friend Teresa is out of town for the weekend and she asked if we would dog set her three chihuahuas for her. She brought them over on Friday afternoon and we will take them back to her Sunday afternoon. Lucas is totally okay with them…. no barking (from him at least). We’ve had a [...]

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This morning was nothing unusual for us, we lazily got up and then started walking the dog. Margaret picked the path that we were going to walk this morning and on the way back towards the house is when it happened.
There’s this one dog that’s usually tied up in the front yard while it’s owners [...]

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Well, 2 weeks and one day after we got the kitties, we had to give them back. Margaret has been suffering pet allergies like crazy and it brought on her asthma something fierce. It was hard for me to take those 2 fur balls back to the owner, but it was something we had to [...]

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