Freewrite Day 710 Dog Whistles
I am not a dog person, and I’m not sure what dog whistles are. I think they might be a whistle only dogs can hear. Maybe people use them for training. There are no free “whistle” photos or media on Canva, fyi, so you just have to be happy with the dog I got.
We got a dog when I was about 9 years old, and it was supposed to be mine, but since my mom fed her, she never cared about me. She also loved my dad and went crazy whenever he came home. We would say, There’s Daddy!” and my dad would say, “I am not that dog’s father.”
I have only had other close experience with dogs while working in other people’s homes. I have been a caregivers in many place, and if they had a dog, I took care of it too.
People say they love their dogs and yada yada, But they forget to feed them, don’t brush them, don’t walk them, don’t play with them, and generally ignore them unless they are in the right mood. Since I would take care of the dog, it would start to like me and then the people would get jealous and step up to the plate a bit.
Since I am nomadic, I would never take on the responsibility of a dog or any other animal. I know a lot of homeless people have them for comfort and companionship. This leads to trouble when they cannot get into a shelter or other programs due to having the dog.
A lady I worked with carried dog food in her car. When she could, she would give some to homeless people with dogs and give the person $5 too. I watched her do this a number of times when we went to lunch.
She’d pull over, run out, give the gift, and run back to the car quick. She had the idea that she was rich, and this was something she could do because she loved dogs. I saw her leave a lot of crying, happy, grateful people in her wake.
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@fitinfun Your friend had a very good heart. I saw a homeless man a couple of days ago, I wish I could have been fast enough to snap a picture, he was pushing his bike across the road behind the bike he had 3 wagons in tow, one wagon had a metal dog crate with dog the other two were piled with his belongings, it was a sight to see.
Oh how sad, @myjob. The homeless are everywhere these days in the US. I do miss that friend. She is also obese, and I lost her when I lost my weight. It's hard to be around your formerly fat friend when you have not done it too.
@fitinfun to me if someone is truly your friend, it does not matter if they are heavy and lose weight or thin and gain weight, weight does not make the person. How they treat you and others makes a person a friend.
Well, this is what happened, @myjob. When I lost "half my size" from 275 to 140 pounds, ALL of my fat friends dropped me. One told me it was because now I was a"skinny b%tch." The rest avoided me, and I stopped trying. I did not have any thin friends except one, and she told me I was too hard to be with when we went to lunch one day, and that was that.
At the same time, thin women looked at me as a rival, and told me to stay away from their husbands (several). Meanwhile, I was so terrified of my new thin self that I had paper taped over my one mirror at home since I could not stand to see that old wrinkled lady looking at me with my eyes.
I could not recognize myself when I caught a window reflection and would burst into tears. No one in my small town recognized me either, so I started slinking by so I would not have to tell them I lost weight.
Men stared at my boobs out in the world. People treated me - the smart, fat accountant as if I was a dumb blond. My son with ptsd could not walk with me anymore, since I was too active and he thought I was going to go crashing to the ground like I did when I was fat.
Keep in mind I was 51, and had been fat since I was 4 years old. I was the most horrifying two years of my life. I had to tell myself to hang on and stay thin every single day. Only the new good habits helped me. And I had two mentors (both fat again) who told me if I did not get through this time, I would have to lose weight all over again.
And then one day, Thank God, it was over. I was looking on an old website I had and wondered who was that fat lady with her photo on my site. It was the old me, and I did not recognize her. Now I was finally thin.
@fitinfun That is a sad sad story, I am so sorry your so-called friends treated you this way. If I had known you I would have been your friend then and still would be your friend. I have heavy friends and one had lost a lot of weight she is now as thin as I am, which is to thin, she is still my friend. The weight does not make a person, it is what is inside of them. As looking at yourself in the mirror That did not bother me at all until I had cataract surgery, the day I had it I came home and when I saw my reflection I screamed to my husband, who the hell is this old lady looking back at me.
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Your friend was doing a valuable service. I know how much I spend on animal feed, I can't imagine driving around and giving it away.
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