What A Country - Homeward bound -2 - Page 8

The twin green monsters of envy and jealousy have reared their ugly heads and they are seeking to do damage at the worst possible time.

It doesn't matter, at this vulnerable time, whether one could make a case for better decisions.

Life, safety and security hang in the balance NOW and there is no room NOW for anything but crossed fingers and good wishes and prayer, if you like.  There is no room now for anything that saps her strength and drive.  There is time for that later, when they are safely ensconced in Modesto.  It may be an armpit, but it is safely oustide of the arctic blast that has been continuing in a shocking display of brute power.  The duration and persistence of this cold is something that many of us assumed was temporary and would soon pass along.  It isn't.

Someone died of the cold, hypothermia, in Miami, millions of tropical fish have died in the keyes.  They are desperately trying to save their crops and their trees.  People in Mexico are huddled together for warmth, wrapped in whatever blankets they have, because their houses have no heat.  I have spoken to friends that went to Cancun for a respite from the arctic air in New Jersey.  They were shocked to find that they had to bundle up in their New Jersey clothes to stay warm.  Every winter they go to the tropics for respite from the cold and a good dose of vitamin D.  They have never had this happen before.  This is no time to sleep in a hamaca.

It is not each individual temperature that is shocking, it is the duration and persistence that is so brutal.  If you have been listening to Al Gore Inc, you did not expect this.  Call him and ask for a refund, you bought his Antropomorphic Global Warming theory and now you want a refund.  Believe me, us evil humans are not in controll of this.

It is all across the globe, people are really suffering all across Europe (they at least are fully equipped for cold) and places like India (which is not equipped for cold).

I have been following these trends and that is why I urged Shelley to keep South, maybe stick with US 10.  I told her no way do you take 40 through Flagstaff.  I spoke to my friends there in Williams, it has been ranging from 4 degrees to 10 below zero, farenheit.  Mid to southern Arizona is doing just fine and so is California.  The rest of the country is freezing.

So, if you want to nitpick with Shelley, about her decision making process, NOW is not the time.  It won't help, it can only hurt.  That is what makes it cruel.  Save that conversation for when they are safely in California.

God bless you Shelly and keep you warm. Gaia bless you and keep you warm.  Allah bless you and keep you warm.  May the universe keep the Beast moving West.  May good luck and fortune get you home.

Michele

But Steve again you lie! I never mentioned your name in my post encouraging Shelly to remember whom she has placed her faith!! You took it upon yourself to announce that shelly needs no faith in whom she has trusted! All Shelly needs according to All seeing Steve is (willpower) and heaven forbid if someone disagrees with all seeing Steve well they are trash of a low life. Just ho in the hell do you think you are Mr Steve!   Again I say no one mentioned your freakin name so when I make a comment or give a word of encouragement keep you pie hole shut because you are nothing but a piece of trash( Wow could I call you a nigger)?  Yep that would accurately describe your trashy character!

All right - I wasn't going to get involved in this, but now my hand has been forced.  I offered Shelley and her 5 dogs a place to stay - warm comfortable furnished apartment which is normally rented out for $600/month  - money that I normally use to pay my mortgage.  One of those dogs lived in the apartment with Shelley for 5 months, I never charged her anything for pet deposit or security deposit as would normally be charged.  4 dogs living in the boarding kennel - yes BOARDING KENNEL - which is the kennel which I use to make my living and pay my bills - taking up 4 runs worth $18/day EACH to me. 

I gave her that chihuahua - and it was not free - because I thought Shelley could use another sort of friend and it might cheer her up.  Now she's planning on breeding it - not registered at all - probably to Pomeranians - isn't that peachy?

In exchange for boarding her dogs for FIVE MONTHS, at $72/day which would normally be charged for 4 large dogs in my boarding kennel, I offered Shelley the option of working off the board by cleaning kennels every day.  One hours' work - sometimes two as she liked to show up at noon to start after lounging in the apartment every morning and take her time cleaning - I'd say that was fair, yes?  $36 - $72 per hour work, cleaning the kennels every day.  Part of the cleaning kennels thing was doing water - which was usually done by myself as I like my dogs to have water before noon every day - emptying poop-filled buckets - done by myself every day because they were simply left out by Shelley for me (or the leprechans?) to lug out to the manure pile and dump - spray down the inside kennel aisle and sweep out hair from the drain so it wouldn't get clogged - never done (not once) by Shelley so once again, I did that - pick out the two exercise yards - not done by Shelley - drains clogged that normally don't get clogged often, had to be unclogged (by me) several times/week.




 

Not to mention her dogs are all the most disgusting, dirtiest kennel dogs I have ever known, in 25 years of keeping kenneled dogs - they liked to shit on their blankets, then sit in/lay in/spin around in and smear it on the walls, in the drydeck, places that are still being cleaned (by myself) as the kennel still smells like shit to this day from her dogs being here. Shelley would put one blanket in my washer and run it on large load - when I asked her to wait until there was a full load to run it, she would then put 5 blankets in the washer, completely overloading it - so cost me money on electric/water, or cost me money for a new washer - guess those were Shelley's two options to "help me".

when she remembered to, she would pick HER OWN DOGS' POOP out of my front and training yards. But most of the time I would do it - filling up a bucket of poop almost daily. Now that she's gone, I fill up a bucket maybe once/week. So that's how much poop from HER DOGS that she didn't clean up from my yard. Nice of her, yes? This is something any guest at any place would do, without being asked. I asked her many times. It was done - sometimes. When she felt like it.

Jeopardizing my boarding kennel license on a daily basis, knowing the dog warden would come for regular inspections and yet continuously (yes after being asked repeatedly not to do) leaving her disgusting dog in the kennel so he could poop/spin/smear it all over the kennel and himself - acting surprised when then asked to clean the dog, clean the kennel, leave the dog in the crate until the other dogs were finished being walked - had to tell her that over and over again, apparently to a deaf person (because she really didn't care about me or my kennel or creating MORE work for me than I already had? apparently). Oh and by the way, never cleaning those smeared-over kennels - ever - I am still working on that.

From the beginning, I didn't ask for or expect Shelley to pay rent or board for her dogs. I was aware she had no funds to pay for it. I asked her initially to cover utilities, especially going into winter - I told her I could not afford the oil bill to heat the apartment in the winter without having a paying renter. She promised me (more than a few times) to pay the full rent, utilities - when she was on her feet in CA with a job. I didn't prompt these promises - she promised me (repeatedly) to pay me back when she could.

Yikes, raymond. 

LOL - well, steve1, guess you're seeing a wonderful example of Christianity in raymond's posts, eh?  Way to set the Christian example, raymond.  Ugh.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas Gandhi

Shelley, hope The Beast is rolling smoothly for you today, and you are soon safe "home!"

In response to these promises I offered Shelley the option to work off the rent/utilties so she wouldn't have to pay at all . A few hours a week - I needed the help - and I'd be willing to take that instead of the rent she couldn't pay. EVERY TIME I OFFERED THIS SHE REFUSED. She did pull some weeds, and moved some cut brush once (couldn't pull those weeds so she cut them - not a lot of help as they will grow back in the spring) once. I was generous in giving her credit for 6 hours of work - this is total in 5 MONTHS. I gave her credit for $600 for 6 hours work because I had agreed to let her work off the rent. 6 HOURS work for 6 HUNDRED dollars. Do the math - pretty generous I'd say. That's $100/hour. And working off the kennel bill for $72/hour. The normal "Shelley day" was walking her house dog, then letting her dogs out (into the kennels so they could crap in them then walk it into the blankets every morning), cleaning the inside runs for her dogs (crapped-on blankets every morning) and then disappearing into the house until noon. Then she would clean the kennels for an hour, then she would lounge around the house again until night. Nice relaxing life, on vacation I'd say! Wish I could do that.

Shelley was invited to Thanksgiving dinner with my family, Christmas dinner with my family, and other various dinners/lunches with my family and myself.

I never encouraged, nor helped with breeding the untitled 6 year old female. I did not offer the use of my several stud dogs for this female. I held the female once because Shelley "couldn't do it herself". So I helped her when asked for help, though I did tell her how I did it (all the time, every female, many females - always bred by myself with no help) - I offered to keep the female to whelp only for the dogs' sake - I don't believe whelping a female on the road in a crate in the winter is the right option.
She also considered breeding the skitso, no-drive, showline female (withhout papers) who chews her own tail until it's hairless and bloody - because she needed the money. Considered selling the female for the same purpose. Then she thought about giving her away, to a good home. That didn't pan out, so she considered "taking her out back and shooting her". She looked at me while she said that, as if I would give a response to her drama - didn't work. Ignored her ranting.

Keeping her dogs "because she loves them" is out of whack too - the only dog she hadn't tried at some point to sell or give away was T, and the chihuahua. The others, quite expendable from what I could see. The only reason she has those dogs with her now is noone else wanted them.

After figuring out (the hard way) that Shelley is all about Shelley and noone else - I felt the need to protect myself and hold her up to her promises by requiring her to sign a contract to pay what she owes me (and promised me) for rent and board - when she gets back on her feet, or through a litter from the dog we co-own that I insisted stay here.

OH, and the board monies for the last week of having her dogs here, is because I fired her from cleaning kennels after "the last straw was broken" - Shelley left so many gates open I lost count. One time causing a bitch fight (my two females) another time causing a loose boarder (I live on a busy road, gates cannot be left open for any reason). Other gates open caught in time (by me) to avert another crisis. Then I let dogs out only to discover my stud dog in the small-dog yard with two small dog (boarders) (gate between yards left open by Shelley). He could have seriously injured or killed them, and may have if they had confronted him or I hadn't been right there. That was "it" - Shelley was fired from cleaning the kennels - something anyone should be able to do - physically very easy, mentally not a challenge - but common sense - very important and something Shelley obviously lacks. I gave her many more chances than most people would have - if she had been an employee she would have been fired after the first week or two. Many chances even though her responses were "oops" instead of apologies - see she has no idea she does anything wrong - to her it's just ME being particular, ME being hard to get along with - not HER making serious mistakes that could cost a dog it's life, a person (me) her business, her home or her livelihood - no it's always all about Shelley. Evidenced by the above description of what supposedly went on in the 5 months she stayed here and how much I took advantage of her - Shelley is always the victim, never the cause of the problems she gets herself into.

She has not personally thanked me, or the people who are waiting to put her up for who knows how long in CA - or the people who have supported her. She expects people to take care of her. She's hurt and confused when they don't, or when they get too fed up with getting walked on and say "that's enough". She made plenty of promises to pay you all back for the money you sent her - and how is she going to do that? By "rescuing dogs". I guess she asked you people if you would rather have her rescue a dog instead of paying you back - or publicly thanking you if you don't want to be paid back?

I never kicked her out. I told her she could stay as long as she wanted. But the bills were racking up - she created someone who was no longer willing to give her what she wanted for free. So she left, and I did not try to stop her.

Good luck Shelley in your new life - I hope you do very well. But don't come back. I learned my lesson - I won't be so willing to help someone from now on, having learned the hard way helping people isn't always positive. My generous nature was naive I guess. Probably won't happen again.

molly

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