More Than Milk and Bread - Saturday Critters

It's Saturday morning before Easter, I'm betting Peter Rabbit is busily, scurrying about hiding his last baskets of eggs!

SATURDAY CRITTERS

RUSTY

This is the story of 

how one trip to the market changed

 so many lives, for the better.

In our family, dogs never go unnoticed.

Yes we meet and greet them all.

Such was the case two years ago on a dark and cold November

evening.

My youngest son, and his two boys were headed into the grocery store when out of the blue here comes this big dog running non-stop right over to them.

Of course my concerned son said, "What the heck!" and gave up shopping.

"Who owns this dog?"

After a bit of searching, my son located the owner (he lived across the busy street) with no fenced yard, and had a toddler with him.

Long story short, the man said he couldn't keep his dog, RUSTY in their yard, and he/Rusty often led his son across the road.

Really? The dog led the boy. Okay.

So naturally when the man asked if my son wanted Rusty, fifty-dollars later my son brought home the sweetest, loving, devoted and watchful dog, named Rusty and added him to the family. 

There was a bit of #@$%^& silly stuff from my daughter-in-law feeling she should have been asked first, but goodness this was a crises situation.

He who snoozes loses.

Rusty loves his new home. Once when the family accidentally left the front door open, the cats ran out but Rusty stayed right there on the front porch until they drove up and he quickly ran back inside and took his usual spot to greet them. 

"Dogs are our link to paradise.

They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

To sit with a dog on a hillside

on a glorious afternoon 

is to be back in Eden,

where doing nothing was not boring

it was peace."

Milan Kundera

Now kitty-cats (this is one of Rusty's new pals) they are a whole other kind of personality!

Enjoy your weekend, have a Happy and Blessed Easter!
and take good care of you.