Expectations

Today, a doberman went home with a 19 months kid...Let rewind a bit!

During my shift at the SPCA, a family of three; mother, father and a 19 month old kid asked me to help them find the perfect dog for them. So I automatically looked into all the dogs we have that are recommended for young children but they all had something that didn't quite made it work. We had this perfect border collie which had "kids +++" on her file but the dad didn't feel any chemistry with the dog, but he was interested in a doberman/german sheperd mix called "Ranger".

So we looked at his file and he seemed pretty chill for a doberman so I offered to bring him to a contact room and see how he would react to the child. First I brought the dog in the room with me and the dad (the dogs have a tendancy to get overly excited when they get taken out of their cages and I wanted him to have time to calm down before subjeting him to a 19 months old baby). The dog was super sweet and calm. We brought in the mom and baby and he basically ignored the child, let him pet him and everything.

They went to walk him and I spoke with a dog trainer there to ask for his opinion on that adoption. You see, Dobermans are guard dogs, and so are german sheperds. Which makes them territorial and not really kid friendly. They can get agressive and they are pretty imposing. So the dog trainer came in the room with us when they came back to see Ranger interact with the dog. He gave his green light when he saw how patient the doberman was being with the baby.

So today, a doberman went home with a 19 months old kid. The craziest thing happen when you least expect them. I'm proud that today I helped a family grow in the most unexpected way.

Blue Valentine

I saw Blue Valentine last week with a friend and I really appreciated the script and the acting. Blue Valentine is about a couple coming together and coming apart; about the beautiful love story between two strangers and the devastating truth that they do not belong anymore many years in the future. As depressing as the movie is, it is so acurate and raw that we cannot refuse its reality. It might not sugar coat and offer a happy ending full of hope, but it does offer a naturalistic look at love, at sex and at marriage. It is not because something is right at a time that it will stay right. People change, people grow apart and, unfortunately, love is lost. Not to mention that Michelle and Ryan act their butts off. The abortion scene will make every girl who watches the movie reconsider taking sexual protection lightly. You've been warned!

Shakespeare Sonnet # 36

Let me confess that we two must be twain,
Although our undivided loves are one:
So shall those blots that do with me remain
Without thy help by me be borne alone.
In our two loves there is but one respect,
Though in our lives a separable spite,
Which though it alter not love's sole effect,
Yet doth it steal sweet hours from love's delight.
I may not evermore acknowledge thee,
Lest my bewailed guilt should do thee shame,
Nor thou with public kindness honour me,
Unless thou take that honour from thy name:
But do not so; I love thee in such sort
As, thou being mine, mine is thy good report.