Written by Hey all – I just finished commenting on all your intro posts. I loved reading your stories. I am amazed at how many of you have dogs and cats and other animals! Thanks for all the pics you are sharing etc…
I will attach some pics of brothers Billy and Samm here. They are from 3rd Coast Labrador rescue here in Michigan. We adopted them in mid June of 2022.
I also want to say it was so cool to get to know each of you through your intro posts.
I think I read everyone’s posts but if you did not get a comment for me please let me know below. I may have lost track of some of the tabs I had opened for your intro posts and closed them all by mistake.
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Happy Friday! I agree it is fun to see everyone’s pets. We had to put our dog down last August, and it is so hard not to include him in my intro posts anymore. I guess our cat will get the stage all to himself.
I do not see a comment on my intro post. https://287.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/hyperlinkedhorizons/2026/06/06/introduction/
@jenfredrick I am on it. Apologies I am sure I had a whole browser window of multiple tabs open and then somehow it got closed. Thank you for sending your URL.
Hi Jenn – I lost my sweet little dog last August too. (Starting to tear up as I think about it now again.) She was always my go to picture for class introduction posts as well. Like you said, it has been hard the last few semester not to include her. I’m glad you still have your cat friend 🙂
@rachelll so sorry about the loss of your dog as well. All of my dogs have played a role in this class over the years and in spring 2019 when Cooper was diagnosed with liver cancer, I told the class because it felt like the right thing to do. The support I received from my students was incredible. Sending you the same kind of support.
@jenfredrick i’m coming back to this because I also wanted to say I’m so sorry about your dog. It’s the hardest part of the journey with a sweet canine companion. One of the pieces in my second book is about Cooper and Dozer, both rescues. I also dedicated that book to them.
Also, just a note for anybody looking at this. Billy is on the right hand side and you’ll notice that his tail is wrapped in duct tape. He came to us with an issue that the vet called happy tail. He would wag his tail so hard that he actually damaged the tip and it would bleed and the vet said the best thing to do is wrap it in gauze bandages, and then wrap duct tape around those bandages for three or four weeks that’s how he lived, and I always told anybody that we bumped into the vet told us to put duct tape on his tail.
That is certainly an interesting way to protect his tail while healing. Like he has an antenna. 🙂 We have a yellow lab too named Karney and he is just over 3 years old. He still has so much energy and doesn’t like to be inside much, so he is happy to be mostly outside. Our indoor cats are not particularly fond of him and less so when we do let him in the house. Must be a sibling thing, cause my pets fight like my kids do sometimes. LOL! Add to that one gecko and 5 goldfish, and we have the beginnings of a zoo.
@beccaslick oh yes! Billy had some serious tail wagging issues. Some of it may have been the month they were in animal control and then separate foster homes. He has been just fine since it healed up in late summer 2022.