Spreading the Love

The bootiful and wacky brother/sister duo of Agatha & Archie kindly bestowed on me the I LOVE YOUR BLOG Award. Humbly, I accepted this award and proudly display it! Basically I took it as a WE LOVE YOU, STANLEY Award too. I don't think they'll mind my interpretation. And, I LOVE YOU, A&A!

Before I bestow this award on a few of my friends, there is a little back story to why I've chosen who I have. These dogs may have already received the award, but I don't care. I'M giving it to them anyway.

You see, it's because of a couple of very irreverent and saucy pups that I am even here to blog about this today. In early February, my girl's heartdog, Rosie the Airegirl, went to the Rainbow Bridge very suddenly. She was 12 years old and had a great life, but my girl was heartbroken. She knew it was going to be hard when she lost her Rosie, but had NO IDEA how deeply she would feel the loss of her girl.

She started searching the internet for anything she could find about Airedales ~ petfinder, rescues, news articles... whatever. She didn't want to get another dog (not after Rosie), but she missed having her Dales around and craved some type of daily contact with the dog world. She was pretty adamant about not wanting to get another dog for a very long time because she didn't think she could give her love to another dog yet. That is, until she found this witty and sagacious handsome hunk of a Dale and started reading about his daily life with 4 cats in LA.

From his site she found the site of his dreamgirl in Canada. She saw that this saucy SuperDale had it all ~ brains, beauty, and the cutest muscle butt she'd ever seen since her Rosie. She was hooked. Not only did she read their daily posts, she went back to their archives and devoured everything they had written. She soon found that she didn't need to be afraid that she wouldn't be able to open her heart to another dog in her life, because she had already opened it to these 2 CRAZY Airedales and all of their blogging buddies!

That's right. Forget about me blogging, I may not be here in GooberStan today if my girl hadn't started reading about the hilariously funky lives of Bogart the Handsome Devil and his dreamgirl, Miss Sunshade the SuperDale. Because of them, my girl realized she didn't want to live without the love of a fine dog in her life. Within a month of starting to read their blogs, I was on my way to meeting my hooman girl and starting this lovefest! WooHoo!

Sunshade, Bogart... I LOVE YOU GUYS... maybe even more than my girl loves you!! You didn't know it at the time, but you were better than therapy for her when she was feeling pretty low. Heck, you WERE her therapy, and we both thank you from our hearts. I now present this I LOVE YOUR BLOG Award (aka I LOVE YOU Award) to Miss Sunshade the SuperDale and her honey, Bogart the Handsome Devil!

I also present you both with the GooberStanian names of Sunshadoober and Bogartoober (or you could have Sunshoober, Goobershade, Bogoober, Goobergart... you guys choose), and honorary citizenship for life in GooberStan! Thanks for being a huge part of what brought my girl and I together.

Love,

Stanley