APRIL BEGINS
04/09/2005 01:53 p.m.
Hey all

Life for me, is getting better and I'm having less moments of sadness about Mouli.

Everyone seems to like lists so I thought I would make my own. The following is a list of all the pets and animals in my life in their order of appearance.

1. Timmy - the poodle, came from England to Canada where we had to give him up because the apartment we lived in would not allow dogs.

2. Sinbad - gray long haired cat, rescued from the SPCA. A big floppy male cat who slept in the closet

3. Cissy and Snoopy - Minature Schnauzers. Snoopy (the male) loved to chase the milkman and one day got hit by the truck. Cissy lived to a ripe old age and love to howl to Pink Floyd. One day the neighbours guinea pigs got loose and they brought home about twenty, all alive except for one.

4. Steppenwolf - a snoodle (half poodle half schnauzer). Adopted by a minister.

5. Tibbles two stroke - black cat with a two stroke purr. A flopsie male cat.

6. Frodo the Rabbit - a huge white rabbit bigger than the Schnauzers! Lovely lazy and very affectionate

7. Chirpy the Chicken - loved to walk on a little 'chicken leash' around the neighbourhood after a rain storm eating worms washed up from lawns.

The above were family pets, then I had:

8. Ms Mello D. Coonhound - a black and tan coonhound who travelled two countries with me in a volkswagen customized van with a Porsche engine which could bury the needle. Also attended two weddings and was the dog of honour at one of them

9. Miffin - a tortie cat, faithful companion to Mouli. She is still around.

10. Mouli - my favourite and much missed. See previous entries...

Yesterday we were at 'Pets Unlimited' and we came across a lovely Golden Retriever pup. She just laid in my arms like a little baby and was very calm. I was so tempted to buy her. I go to pets stores to get a 'doggie' fix.

I still have mixed emotions about raising another animal so soon after Mouli, but my goodness, she was so nice. I'm half tempted to go there right now and snap her up. Is it too soon? Should I just find a mix like Mouli was? A lab mix maybe?

Any suggestions?

In other news, a friend of mine committed suicide last week. In the Mouli entries, you may notice that I met Mouli through a job I was doing with someone else, clearing out a record store. That 'someone else' is the person in question.

I told him when Mouli died and gave him a copy of Mouli's biography that no matter if we had a bad arguement or whatever, that I would never ever be able to have bad thoughts or hatred towards him considering that my relationship with him led to my meeting Mouli and that he was indirectly responsible for me having a wonderful association with such a special animal. We hugged and he was happy at that moment.

I also gave him my poem 'Mortal World'.

Anyway, on April 1st, he committed suicide in the basement of his store while customers were browsing upstairs through the stacks.

I'm organizing a memorial for him next Sunday.

Rest in peace Bob.

Love and peace

I am currently Unsure
I am listening to Folk music