we have grown

How fast time flies. A few blogs away I was sharing with everybody about our dog Lara who was in heat at that time and how it created a lot of noisy commotion in our otherwise sleepy neighborhood. Well, as you can guess, that stage was long over.

Fast forward, Lara has brought forth 6 liters; unfortunately, one did not make it, so that left us with 5 new members of the family--- 2 browns, 2 blacks, 1 white (the dead one was white). As of this date, the puppies are only a few days old so their eyes are still closed and they only crawl around in their new made-of cartoon house. Soon, we are going to move them to a bigger cage but that will be for later.

With two big dogs around the house, what do we do with 5 more? We have already figured that out. We will probably keep one or two, and the rest will be up for adoption. We are looking for good foster homes for these puppies when the time comes. And yes, one male is already owned by a friend whose kids had been pestering him to get one.

Photos above show only 3 of the 5. Aren't they lovely?

kicking, beating dogs

We do not kick nor beat our dogs. So when someone else in the house, like a helper, does this for no reason, we would be very angry. My son Mark who is a pet lover taught a lesson to one such person in the house whom he saw kicking our dog because she wanted to pass. Mark gave her a kick too for kicking our dog which was only sleeping in one corner but got kicked because the helper wanted to pass. This incident was repeated a couple of days ago by the daughter of our helper who just kicked our pregnant dog Lara for no reason. I mean, what's the problem with these people? Did they get kicked a lot by people in their own homes from wherever they came from to do this to creatures that are helpless? I instantly gave her a scolding, telling her that we do not kick dogs in our house, and therefore, because this is not her house, she has no business kicking our dogs whom we treat and consider as members of the family.

I think that people who exhibit cruelty to animals or helpless creatures should be punished. Cruelty to any form of life should never be tolerated in this society we call humane and peace-loving.