Several years ago we lost our precious little Bailey. He died on the 13th of February, and by February 21st this little guy found us. Marley Delano Perry.......
Bailey was a West Highland Terrier, and Marley is a Maltese...so they should not have any of the same characteristics. And the fact that Marley did not "know" Bailey, he didn't pick up any of Bailey's traits.
Marley seems to be getting a "signal" from someone, because he does have many of Bailey's characteristics. One of them is he barks like he's a Rottweiler, only when one of us is with him. Bailey adored my husband, and Marley is worse. I was in the living room one day and I heard the most awful sound....it kinda sounded like a beagle??? You know how they howl? I walked into my office, and there was "little Marley perched on the back of the loveseat looking out the window." Howling! When he loses site of my husband, he whines, cries, and runs from one door to the next. And just last week, "learned" to howl!
Another of Bailey's characteristics was fear. Only of loud noises, like the crack of thunder, and the flash of lightening. He hated the mail truck, and fireworks. My daughter suggested a "thunder-shirt", and I think she sent it to me. Bailey would not let either of us comfort him. It truly broke my heart to watch him shake because of the storm. The thunder-shirt worked only if I put it on him before the storm started.
Unfortunately, Marley does the same thing. The major difference is Marley will let us hold him, and he stops shaking. I bought a new one for Marley because he weighs a lot less than Bailey did.
My husband and I are idiots when it comes to our fur babies. Last week I had an appointment, and left before the storm came.
I was in my car, driving home when my husband called me. He said, "are you ok? We are having a really bad storm?" I assured him I was fine and would be home soon. Then my husband said, "Did you put Marley's shirt on him before you left?" No honey, he put it on himself...
I like how you talk to your husband and treat your dogs. ;-) Thunder shirt?
I've only known two Maltese. I was at my friend, Jack's house in Redwood City a week after the 1989 earthquake. I was talking on the phone to my girlfriend's mother in San Francisco, when Jack's little Maltese started shaking and whining, and the woman on the phone said, "Did you feel that? An aftershock." It was a 4.0 aftershock that I didn't feel.
My girlfriend was with me when we tried to visit Herb Morrison (I wrote an article about him and his Hindenburg fame) and his wife a month after he was placed in a nursing home. Their Maltese was not cared for very well and hopped up on my girlfriend's lap for comfort while we were there. I felt sorry for that little dog and for Herb's wife with him gone and no children.
The Wholly Book of Genesis is a humorous satire on the first book of the Old Testament where the Story of Creation, the building of Noah's Ark, Sodom and Gomorrah and the families of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are thoroughly spoofed and broadsided.
Several years ago we lost our precious little Bailey. He died on the 13th of February, and by February 21st this little guy found us. Marley Delano Perry.......
