If Dogs Prayed

[Kathy30]

Dear God please send me somebody who'll care!
I'm tired of running, I'm sick with despair.
My body is aching, it's so racked with pain,
and dear God I pray as I run in the rain,
That someone will love me and give me a home.
A warm cozy bed and a big juicy bone.
My last owner tied me all day in the yard
Sometimes with no water and God that was hard!
So I chewed my leash God and I ran away
To rummage in garbage and live as a stray.
But now God I'm tired and hungry and cold,
And I'm so afraid that I'll never grow old.
They've chased me with sticks and hit me with stones
While I run the streets just looking for bones!
I'm not really bad God, please help if you can,
For I have just become "a victim of man".
I'm wormy dear God and I'm ridden with fleas and
All that I want is an owner please!
If you find one for me God, I'll try to be good
And I won't chew on their shoes, but I'll do as I should.
I'll love them, protect them and try to obey
When they tell me to sit, to lie down or to stay!
I don't think I'll make it too long on my own,
Cause I'm getting weak and I'm so all alone.
Each night as I sleep in the bushes I cry,
Cause I'm so afraid God, that I'm going to die!
And I've got so much love and devotion to give,
That I should be given a chance to live.
So dear God please, please answer my prayer and
Send me someone who will really care....
That is, dear God, if you're really there!

[buckeyepete]

Most of those dogs find their way to my house. ( cats too)

My wife never saw a dog that wasn't hungry or needed a place to sleep for the night.

:confused:

[Lubbock]

All the ones in South Carolina, maybe, but the ones on the South Plains of Texas end up here.

Funny thing. When I lived in Virginia, the ones there didn't have any trouble finding their way to my door, either.

I have a friend who says if there is such a thing as reincarnation, he wants to come back as a stray dog at my house.

[DoctorDoom]

This guy had his prayer answered.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Critters/Gus-1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Critters/Gus.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Critters/Gus-2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Critters/Gus-3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v349/DocDoom777/Critters/Gus-4.jpg

[Kathy30]

I love the one of his sleeping in his bed.

We're all here to answer the prayers of stray dogs. I never saw a stray until just recently. Strays are now common. People bring them to me because they hope I will help and they don't want to take them to the shelter. I have a rescue agency that takes them and finds homes.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

Doc, your furry friend is blessed! I know he probably knows it too, and loves you all the more for it.

Most of our animals have been strays. One of the very BEST dogs we ever owned was either a bulldog/mastiff mix, and she was the last dog in the last cage (the one just before they go to be put down :sad:). She was older, and huge, and I'm sure nobody wanted an older, big dog for fear it would be mean. She was THE MOST loving dog in the world. We had her for several years til she passed, but she will ALWAYS be in our hearts.


The sad thing I'm finding now, though, around here, is much like the case for human adoption -- it's getting so difficult, so bogged down with paperwork & red tape, so expensive, that's it's almost impossible to get a pet from the pound/shelter/humane society!

Most of y'all know we lost three dogs in three months back during the Summer. We have been looking for a companion for our remaining pup and new member to add to our family. We've been to several pet adoptions put on by our local shelters, but haven't found the right friend yet, until this past Saturday.

We found a little girl, supposedly a lab mix (but she was brindle like a bulldog, and walked bowlegged like a bulldog), and we began the paperwork. They asked us everything save what kind of toilet paper we use! Believe it or not, we were rejected for adoption because we refuse to neuter our bulldog, despite telling them we were anticipating negotiations to stud out our dog because we also want another bulldog from the same family (because they are AWESOMELY good dogs, easy to train, the BEST temperament, QUALITY dogs not the bulldogs you see when people talk about (like pit-) "bulldogs")! The dog we were trying to get was ALREADY FIXED! We even referred them to contact our local veterinarian (who knows us and our situation REAL well).

Besides this, I can see why some people would rather buy a dog from a breeder or even get a purebread from a pet store ... the paperwork is horrendous, but the cost is especially prohibitive. At the pound/shelter adoptions here, puppies are $100 (and I'm talking, the just weaned and newly ready for adoption kind), after that it goes up to $200-$300 depending upon the size/age of the dog. I do understand they must be able to financially operate, but unfortunately jacking the prices so high isn't helping because people just aren't able to afford such high prices at the get-go.

Okay, sorry for the mini-rant.

Kathy, that poem got me right in the heart. One day, hopefully soon, we will be able to answer that prayer for some little furry friend(s).

[Kathy30]

Homeschool, I adopted a miniature pincher from a rescue agency. It took FIVE MONTHS. I wanted a min pin. I filled out the application and submitted it with fingerprints. Then I had to wait. The agency did a background check with the Department of Justice to make sure I wasn't wanted leaving the dog without a home. My vet had to send a letter that my existing pets are up on their shots, all neutered, all getting regular care. THEN, there was a home visit, a phone call to my landlord AND visits to my neighbors.

THEN I got to wait until a dog suitable for me became available. He had to be older, housebroken and liked cats. That took a couple of months. It was an adventrue.

[ThomasMore]

Doc, if I remember correctly, you have a tale to tell about your pup. Would you care to share it again?

[DoctorDoom]

?

This one, maybe? (http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=35399)

[ThomasMore]

That's the one. Great story, doc, and good on you.

[Rhino]

I've adopted several, and if not for my wife establishing limits, I'd probably have several more.

[Kathy30]

It's wonderful to see them change, get healthy and grow. Just looking at what happened to that fur is amazing. You are blessed by such friends.

[Lubbock]

I have never "adopted" a dog --I have had many adopt me.

The best dogs I've ever had have been strays, dumped off by uncaring and irresponsible people.

I've always had a vision in my head of catching someone in the act of dumping a cat or dog and being able to instantly grab that person up, transport him a few thousand miles from "home," way out in the woods somewhere, and striking him with the inability to speak.

Oh, and it would be the dead of winter with about three feet of snow on the ground when I dumped him.

[Oldeshooter]

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[MSGT]

But dogs do pray.

[MSGT]

http://www.emmitsburg.net/humor/pictures/2007/ATT00279.jpg

[MSGT]

c'mon people, this is the pic of the year. No comments?






bump????????

[Rhino]

It's been posted before. That's why there's no comments.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

It was three months to the day this past Saturday that our beloved UGA was killed by a hit-&-run driver. That pic reminds me of him so much because if ever a dog deserved to go to Heaven, he surely was top of the list.

I think if dogs prayed, they would ask Father for more people to have a heart, because it sometimes appears that some humans are heartless.

In loving memory of UGA