Getting Back On Track! (Doggy Daze)

I'm back! Back to my self after an extended illness due to a serious fall. I'm trying different ways to get back on track. My favorite little doggy, Nassau, died last winter. We mourned his loss for a time: I then decided to get another dog. I believe Nassau would have been pleased to have 'Slick' as his friend. Then my spouse, Joseph, decided that Slick needed a companion, so along came Choca. Is he a character or what? Although Choca is a few months younger than Slick, due to his breed, he is much larger. Of course, Choca is the Alpha Male in the yard. Slick doesn't dare challenge him under no circumstances. As long as Slick follows the established 'rules' that seemed to have been thought up by Choca, they can do very well, thank you.

Slick is a really smart little dog, and sometimes he just want to follow his own thoughts. But, that's when the trouble starts. Choca isn't having any of Slick's ideas getting in the way of his own. Slick very easily goes back to being very compliant to keep in good stead with Choca. They both seem to be quite content in their world. They eat, play,and sleep together with hardly a ruffle as long as each of them obey the 'rules' established by Choca.

I'm sure that having had to care for, and interact with, those dogs were a therapeutic time for me. As I said at the start of this post, I had fallen and banged my head rather badly. The neurosurgeon said I was in a 'clinical depression'. For a time I couldn't concentrate on anything; but when Slick was given to me as a pup, I knew I had to care for him. Him being a Jack Russel Terrier, he never stayed still. I didn't have time to think of myself. I had to be consistent in caring for him.
He certainly helped me, along with Choca, to come back to myself. Needless to say, they are my
special 'wee furry children'!













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