Axetapper's blog: "Tapper's Riffs"

Throughout my lifetime, I have discovered that both wild and domestic animals are ok with me being a part of their world. The horses seem content with me; the coyotes don't bother with me, the deer don't care nor do the bears as they seem somewhat indifferent to me, the racoons; ya well its a case of stay your distance and all is good and as for the skunks, I don't want to be their friend. They can have the street for all I care..

But fortunately in my lifetime, I have been lucky enough to be the proud owner of one domestic female Siamese cat and the benefactor of friendship and love of one pure bred Golden Retreiver.

So let's first talk about Alea. I have numerous pics of her to upload and will do so in the upcoming future.Alea, was a beautiful blue point Siamese cat. In the cat world, she was purebred with papers and had the most remarkable personality I have ever seen from any individual animal in  my lifeetime.

Alea took to whomever talked to her and I did; she became a flap. Yipping and yapping at me. Is it possible to understand cat language? I bellieve it is or at least was. She loved to talk to me. She would purr, sit on daddy's lap and fall asleep there and dream. She knew she was safe.Nodody would hurt her in daddy's lap and make no miistake, she was right.

Trust? I could take sleeping baby, putting her to the side, go for a pee, come back and put her back where she was and all was good with us both !!

Letting her go when God wanted her? Not a happy day at all in my life but I knew that day would come.

Brody the golden retriviever. Not my dog by default but he came to love me and wanted me to be with him as time passed.Brody was full of life and love and gave everything he had to offer with hugs and licks. Brody took to me like I was his own. As much as I  listened to him, he listened to me and made me a better person for his love and support. As time paased, Brody and I became  like owner and dog wiithout the title.

The hardest things in my animal lifetime I've had to do? Take my lovely cat to the vet for what became a bowel cancer diagnosis beyond her health and had to let her go..

As for Brody, I was getting the dump from a pawnshop gig I didn't care about, . How do you say goodbye to an animal you love? Well I called Brody over as he knew something was wrong. His head was tilted to one side and could tell by the vibe at hand that bad news was coming.

So I told Brody that I have to go now: I told him It would be a long time coming b4 I saw him again but in the meantime, please try and be good for Mom cuz the reason you are the way you are is because of her hard work

Werd