Hi. Long time lurker just getting in before the thread closes!
This past year I've moved from South Boston to the South Shore. The commute is awful but having 4 acres for my German Shepherd is worth it. I've also had my parents move in, which was well timed since my mother fell and broke her hip about a month after moving in. (She has severe osteoporosis). It has been so much better to be right here to help rather than worry from afar as they used to be in the Detroit area. And she's doing really well now so we are quite lucky that it hasn't lead to an overall decline in her health.
My parents also brought their 2 cats and have just gotten a puppy (arranged before the broken hip). Add in my 4 cats and the German Shepherd and we are way past crazy cat lady and into zoo territory. They all seem to be getting used to each other without too much drama, helped by the fact my parents' cat seem to prefer living my parents' bedroom.
I still work in Boston (see awful commute) - in fact, from lurking I'm pretty sure I'm in the same building as Jesse though definitely not at the same company.
Even though I'm just a lurker, I want to say thanks for such a great community and thanks for letting me be a very quiet part of it.
Hi Maggie! Small world! Although it is a very big building.... See you in the line at Sweetgreen?
Hi Maggie! Join the GSD brigade!
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I'm a refugee from not-quite the South Shore: I grew up in Norfolk, and if I climbed the pine tree in the back yard, I could see Foxboro Stadium (which we called Schafer Stadium then). But now I'm in the Bay Area, where I don't have to shovel and my Reynaud's Syndrome doesn't give me as much trouble.
Hi Consuela and -t!!
Gorgeous GSD, Consuela. I love the black ones so much. Our obedience trainer has one that I adore.
Hey Maggie! My goodness, really long time lurker with that id number! Yay for extended family, boo for wicked commutes!
so lovely to see people appear out of the woodwork!
I realized I am more of a lurker than not lately. I see many Buffistas on the book of Face, but I miss this place when I come back and read through the conversations I've missed.
I have very little to brag about in my life right now. I work at a job I don't like with people who are ok, but not friends. Money is terribly tight and I get scared all the time that just one more thing is going to put me over the edge.
My building just changed hands and the new owners are not great. I'm not allowed to complain too much because my old landlady is a friend of my sister's, so any complaint is seen as a criticism of her desire to retire.
I rarely see the family that I moved here to be near. I miss Kansas City and the friends I have there. so I'm lonely.
But, I'm still alive, I have a roof over my head, I have the internet, and I have you guys.
Hi Maggie! We too are GSD lovers; we rescued two from Westside GS rescue of Los Angeles. Kaylee is purebred, as far as we can tell, and Newton is a mutt with some shepherd in there somewhere. They would LOVE to have four acres. Or even half an acre.
They would LOVE to have four acres. Or even half an acre.
Oh, man, yeah. I have 2000 square feet total (including the house & garage), so The Boss gets very little room to romp when we're at home. And it's pretty hard to train for agility when I have no place to put a jump or a set of weave poles. It's also hard to do any distance work, so as a result she is pretty unreliable on the recall. (Sigh.)
I love rescues but they are work. Today The Boss had a little altercation with a dog on the trail and the other dog went behind me to sniff or snap at her butt, and when snapping at him -- she got me. Didn't really break the skin, but ouch. Clearly we have to do more work on dealing with other dogs.
