Tuesday, February 27, 2007

The Horses Have Their Own Blog Now, and a Very Sad Day

My human has noticed that the horses are somehow taking over my blog, so she created the Byrd Herd blog, where they can post their own adventures!
Their blog is located at http://byrdherd.blogspot.com/.
Visit them there!

On a different note, yesterday afternoon, our neighbors a couple miles away (we live in the country, so they're neighbors), lost their house to a massive fire, and with it, their two beloved dogs. Nothing is standing as of today. Even the chimney fell in on itself. Out here in the boonies there are few fire hydrants, so all the water had to be trucked in. Our fire department consists of brave volunteers. The home owners were away at work during the fire, so our heart goes out to them and we mourn with them their two canine family members.

Last year, our neighbors a mile down the road lost their entire house to fire also. Unfortunately, in the fire were 35 show cats (some top national winners) and 3 show dogs (Chinese Cresteds). All perished before anyone could get into the house. Again, the owners were away at work when it happened, and when the fire was discovered, the house was fully involved. You can only imagine the horror and pain felt by our neighbors. Truly any fire is tragic, and is a real fear our owner has since we are kennelled in the house. We are fortunate, however, to have a rare fire hydrant across the street, and our owner has a sticker in the window to lead the volunteer firefighters to us. The county sheriff knows we're in the house, too, so hopefully in case of a fire, we'll be rescued.

Please tell your humans to let their neighbors know that you are in the house (if they are yet unaware) and to put a "Rescue Me in Case of Fire" sticker on their front doors or windows. Have them check the smoke alarms, too, while they're at it.

Slurps,
Miss Stella

10 comments:

The Army of Four said...

Oh, that's so SAD!!!
Love,
Amber

Fu Fu said...

Oh.. that's very sad. I'll visit the horses site later. :)

~ fufu

Maverick the Pirate said...

Harrrr Matie Stella

That be very sad. Fire be scary Harrrrr.

Cap'n Maverick the pirate

Opy - the Original GruffPuppy said...

Hey Stella,

Welcome to www.dogswithblogs.com.au - it is great to meet you, and I am sure you will make lots of friends here :-)

Love
Opy

PS - big hugs to your poor neighbours :-(

wally said...

Stella,

I found you from the Ao4 blog. My mawma has a thing for mastiffs and she was curious (me too!).

That's such a sad sad story--heartbreaking for the apes and the dogs. Good reminder about the stickers.

wally.

ps. i hope the bad weather in your parts isn't giving you too much grief!

Molly the Airedale said...

What horribly tragic news!

Love ya lots,
Maggie

Deanna said...

Oh no! One of my mom's work friends lost her house and two dogs last week. The third dog saved her life by waking her up and getting her out. Very sad.

Peanut said...

that is sad. Those poor humans.

Molly the Airedale said...

So Miss Stella,
Do you want mom to mail you the book? If so, please email us and we'll get your mailing address, okay?
maggiesue710@yahoo.com

Love ya lots,
Maggie

Sophie Brador said...

Stella, That's a very sad story. All those fires! Tell your people to fire proof your whole house top to bottom! I have a sign on my front and back door, in case of fire. I live in a city and all my neighbours know my dog too, so that helps.