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November 29, 2007
Hi. I am Ben.
I am Shelby's friend. We have had some very good adventures together.Shelby is a very good dog to know if you like having real big exciting adventures! With Shelby everything you do becomes a big adventure!
She is like that. I am glad she is my friend.
I am blind. I wasn't always blind but I can hardly see nothing now! To some people that means I can't have any big adventures at all! They don't want me walking to the store! They'd never let me go hunting dinosaurs or elephants or even snakes!
They all go, "Poor little blind Benny. You stay tied up here so you don't get hurt!"
I know they are being nice but I am a pretty tough guy and I needs to have some excitement!
Shelby doesn't think I'm too old or too blind. She thinks I am pretty smart. Because I am smart!I may not be able to see but I have a very smart nose!
I have very educated toes too! After I have walked someplace I can always remember what the ground felt like and find my way back! I bet your can't do that with just your toes! I sure enough can!
Sometimes I clunk my head walking into stuff and that makes people get all crying worried. That is just dumb of them. I am tough and I am having fun. Getting clunked on your head doesn't mean you stop having fun!
Shelby knows this and she says, "I don't care if you clunks your noggin just be ready to fights them dinosaurs!" And I says, "Don't you worry about that Shelby. Jumpin' Jehosophat, I love me a good scrap!" That means I like to fight!
I am also very smart. Shelby goes on and on about her education. I don't mind her going on and on. She is my friend after all! But she talks about being a lawyer and a doctor and all the schools she has gone to.By crackey, she says she is A Trojan from USC and she is a Buckeye from Ohio State.
Those are pretty good schools for people!
Shelby is smarter than most people but I am a dog! I have a great education too.
There better be a picture here of me wearing my school sweater! You can see I went to Barkington University!When you are a dog there is no better place to go than to Barkington.
I could sing you the school song but, great honey toads, it is very hard to work Shelby's computer so I won't. It is hard enough to talk slow to this thing so it understands a dog. I don't know how to sing my school song that slow. And the song requires some running around and jumping in the second verse. If you come by I will be glad to sing it for you. I am teaching Shelby how to do the Aroooo's in the background.
Great thunderation, I didn't spend my time on this here machine just to talk about the old days!I know that Christmas is coming.
It is a good time for folks and for MOST dogs.
I didn't always have a great home and good friends. When I was near knee high to a kitty cat I didn't have any home at all!
I had to live on the street and eat out of garbage cans and stuff like that. It wasn't much fun. And it was usually either too hot or too cold.
One day the dog police, who are people and not really dogs, if you get what I mean, showed up. I was very tough back then and always liked to scrap. These dog police took one look at me and said, "We're not fighting him! He could tear our legs off!"
And I could have too!
They shot me! WITH A GUN!
Not with bullets but with these darts that make you fall asleep right where you're standing! They hurt like heck too! When they are shooting you and when you wake up it really smarts!
What hurt most was when I woke up I wasn't free any more. No, by heck, I was in an animal shelter.The people there weren't mean. They were pretty nice really but I was still a prisoner and even though they were nice people they weren't my people.
I was sad. The people tried but they never had enough blankets for all us dogs. They always had food but it wasn't always the best food.
Strangers would come to see us. That was pretty exciting. They'd pet us sometimes and sometimes even play with us.
There was never enough of that either.
The only really good day at the shelter was when they came to take me to my new home.
I live with two other dogs. They also come from the shelter. In fact every dog I know lived in the shelter.
Except Shelby.
That's why when I heard her talking to this consarned machine about how we should all help them other dogs who are still in the shelter I thought I should help her some.
Now you should help dogs. That's just plain old common sense!What most dogs in the shelter want is a home and people to call their own. I know that is too much for most people. Being taken care of by a good dog is hard on people.
What they need next is some good food and some good treats! they will be very grateful for some good treats.
I know how much that good food costs and tarnation them treats are expensive. Shelby and me went to a pet store and we had THREE NICKELS and we couldn't get us nothing!
Christmas is in the winter! It is cold in the winter. Dogs could always use some good old towels or old sheets and blankets to snuggle up real warm into!
If you are real poor like me and Shelby or just run out of money buying gifts for your family and friends I figure you could just thinks some real good thoughts about them poor dogs in the shelter. They'll hear them good thoughts! I know I did.
You have yourself a Merry Christmas. I'll be thinking about you too.
Your pal,
Ben
Posted by Shelby at November 29, 2007 7:46 PM
Comments
Hi Ben,
It's me, Jimmy! I'm Shelby's favorite brother. I was reading all about you and I think maybe you and I could be pals. We could talk about boy things and Shelby.
Sounds like you had some hard times, so I'm glad you found a forever home. By the way, you get dressed in quite a spiffy wardrobe-I bet the other dogs in your neighborhood are jealous.
Have fun in the snow :)
Your pal,
Jimmy
Posted by: jimmy at December 4, 2007 6:53 PM