Keep on Walking

This is Zelly. She's my girl. Before Mr. Fuz, it was just me and her.

She's always been my accident prone puppy.

There was the time she got her paw caught in a trappers trap and almost lost her foot. I was lucky he let her go and didn't just shoot her. There was the time she got caught in barbed wire and made a bullet looking hole in her side. I panicked a little on that one and countless other times.

She has seen the loss I have seen. When she was about a year old, she decided she liked my parent's dog Rocky more than me and chose to live with him at my parent's house a mile away.

When my mother died of cancer, Rocky decided he would rather live with me, he and Zelly ran to my house and stayed another few years.

She has seen the loss of Rocky and faced a move to town. Not easy for a farm dog to suddenly be cooped up in a fenced in yard in town.

We bought her a puppy, to keep her company...a bull mastiff puppy... and she loved him dearly...until he got big and torn her ACL while playing.

Even though she's had multiple shots by the vet, she is in pain and most days hops around on three legs, she hasn't lost her zeal for life.

She loves her walks and she gets so excited to go. Lately she hasn't been able to go with Thor, he's too big and she's too crippled, but we take her on modified loop and she loves it.

She reminds me that no matter how much you hurt or how much life seems to drag you down, keep your optimism! Keep looking forward to the things you love! Make time to do the things that make you smile, if even you have to modify them. Keep your head up, ears up, looking around you and keep walking!