Emily_Babbelhund
Mama Red HOT Pepper
- Location
- St Merryn, Cornwall
It's been over a year since I met Carbon as a dog walker at my local Spanish shelter. It's been over a year since I took him home as a foster six weeks later. But it's been exactly a year since I signed all the paperwork for Carbon and Paul so that they were legally mine. There was a lot of drama at the time and I was VERY happy to be holding those two blue passports!
Paul of course has gone on to become Vizzy and live a cushy and happy life in Wiltshire. It took me a very long time to think that I wasn't just a way station for Carbon on his way to his forever family. There wasn't one "eureka!" moment in time where I thought, "He's staying": it was more a bunch of little changes and experiences.
So I'm appointing today, the date in his passport, as Carbon's Gotcha Day.
I've said it before, but Carbon and I both have had our MLF guardian angels. Through their support and the support of everyone here, I was finally able to see what others already knew for quite some time now: Carbon is MY Besito Boy.
I'll say it right here: "Ok, ok...I'm a LITTLE slow on the uptake!"
In honour of Carbon and also of Brogan - who has whispering in my ear that it's LONG since time - I'm also changing my avatar today. The photo of Brogan in Dingle (Ireland) that I've used for my avatar for three years is one that I travel with constantly and that won't change. The frame is getting a little battered at this point, but Brogan's photo is always with me: even if it's just a one night stop in a hotel, he's right there on the nightstand next to me.
But it's time to honour the new guard. The first photo of Carbon I've chosen to use is a small salute to Brogan. It was taken at a park overlooking the island of Burano (Venice). It was one of Brogan's very favourite spots and we used to go there nearly every Sunday when we lived in Venice. Carbon also loved it, as you can see from the look on his face. Here are both boys in Burano, taken five years apart:
Finally one last photo of the both of us, also taken in another favourite Brogan spot: in Dingle overlooking the Three Sisters. I took Carbon there last fall and was feeling rather sad that day until we sat down on the side of a cliff and I was on the receiving end of some wet and sloppy Carbon besitos.
What a wonderful boy, and how very lucky am I that he found his way to me?
Paul of course has gone on to become Vizzy and live a cushy and happy life in Wiltshire. It took me a very long time to think that I wasn't just a way station for Carbon on his way to his forever family. There wasn't one "eureka!" moment in time where I thought, "He's staying": it was more a bunch of little changes and experiences.
So I'm appointing today, the date in his passport, as Carbon's Gotcha Day.
I've said it before, but Carbon and I both have had our MLF guardian angels. Through their support and the support of everyone here, I was finally able to see what others already knew for quite some time now: Carbon is MY Besito Boy.
I'll say it right here: "Ok, ok...I'm a LITTLE slow on the uptake!"
In honour of Carbon and also of Brogan - who has whispering in my ear that it's LONG since time - I'm also changing my avatar today. The photo of Brogan in Dingle (Ireland) that I've used for my avatar for three years is one that I travel with constantly and that won't change. The frame is getting a little battered at this point, but Brogan's photo is always with me: even if it's just a one night stop in a hotel, he's right there on the nightstand next to me.
But it's time to honour the new guard. The first photo of Carbon I've chosen to use is a small salute to Brogan. It was taken at a park overlooking the island of Burano (Venice). It was one of Brogan's very favourite spots and we used to go there nearly every Sunday when we lived in Venice. Carbon also loved it, as you can see from the look on his face. Here are both boys in Burano, taken five years apart:
Finally one last photo of the both of us, also taken in another favourite Brogan spot: in Dingle overlooking the Three Sisters. I took Carbon there last fall and was feeling rather sad that day until we sat down on the side of a cliff and I was on the receiving end of some wet and sloppy Carbon besitos.
What a wonderful boy, and how very lucky am I that he found his way to me?