What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?

[JanS]

I am thankful for a new lease on life after getting a kidney transplant in June.I do not know my deceased donor, but I thank them every day for giving the gift of life, even as they gave their life. And, so thankful for the future, which includes becoming a grandma for the first time next June :)

What are YOU thankful for this year?

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[wakeflood]

Thankful for the almost 13yrs. we got to spend with our beloved Babycat who passed last weekend. She got me through some really tough times with her love and snuggles. She was a little thing but strong in spirit and playfulness. Her big brother still wanders the house calling for her.

And thankful for having another good year of gainful employment and relative health of my loved ones.

May you all have a wonderful day.

PS – JanS, we’re all thankful for that donor too!

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[TanDL]

My warm fire to sit by as the weather gets colder, my family (including our goofy pets) and all the wonderfully thoughtful and caring people in the West Seattle community. There is much to be thankful for.

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[F16CrewChief]

Geez, I wanted to write something funny, but Wake got me turned around.

I am thankful for the nine wonderful years our family member and 140lb American Tundra Shepard gave my family and me.

Nine years ago, we rescued a dog from a shelter in Las Vegas. He was estimated to be between three and four years old at the time we adopted him. At a little over a year old, he was dropped off to a shelter that was overcrowded with pitbulls. In a kennel with three other pitbulls, he was packed up on and mauled. The pits tore up his throat, shattered his two front legs, damaged his ears, and his eyes. However, he managed to fight the dogs off long enough to be helped by staff. He fought so much, that one of the pitbulls injuries were so severe, the pitbull had to be put down. However, our champ was not out of the woods himself. Critically injured, staff had to make the call of putting him down too. With volunteer vets onsite, they elected to help him fight. For six months, several local Las vegas vets volunteered their time to help him recover. He bounced around to foster homes and made a full recovery earning him the name “Tough Guy”.

Tough Guy ended up at a nicer shelter in Vegas and was ready for adoption. He ended up going to a man who kept him for a month. The man returned Tough Guy to the shelter claiming he had food aggression. This is where my family come in.

My wife and I were looking at adopting a German Shepard. My wife and I just had our third child and we wanted a nice family dog. My wife searched classifieds, dog rescues and the internet. Many of the dogs she came across were not recommended for families until she came across Tough Guy online. We arranged a meeting with the shelter. They told us to bring the entire family to come meet Tough Guy. The trainer at the shelter was a retired L.A. County Sheriff K-9 officer. The trainer told us all about Tough Guy’s history. The trainer swore up and down that Tough Guy loved kids and had no food aggression. He had Tough Guy take food from our kids hands and let them play fetch with him. Tough Guy was PERFECT!!!

For the next nine years, Tough Guy was known for roaming from each of our kids rooms and sleeping next to their beds at night. He loved people and he really loved kids. He didn’t like pitbulls too much. He had a heart of a lion. In the end, it was the strongest thing about him that brought him down…his heart. A tumor latched on to his heart and started cutting off his blood flow. The vet did x-rays and said he his perfectly healthy for a twelve year old shepard, but his heart is enlarged. So enlarged, his time was extremely limited no matter what we do. On November 11th, we let Tough Guy move on. His presence is greatly missed.

For nine years though, he gave us everything he could and for that, I am thankful!

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[PangolinPie]

I’m so thankful for my home, and for the fact that the folks in the W.S. neighborhood where I live are so welcoming and friends.

I’m thankful for my cat, and for my job, and for my health.

I’m very thankful that I am loved. A good man is, as they say, hard to find, but I found a real keeper.

I’m thankful that even though things are not perfect in this world, they seem to be getting better in small ways, all the time.

I’m really thankful for the internet (it’s how I found all the things mentioned above)!

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[wakeflood]

Great story F-16. Whenever I hear stories like that it reminds me how much our pets give to us and how often all they want in return is for someone to show they care.

RIP Tough Guy.

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[JanS]

wakeflood..I agree..and I bet Tough Guy was really a pussycat…

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[miws]

wake, and F16, condolences to each of you and your families on the losses of your beloved pets.

Perhaps a bit fitting, that Tough Guy passed on November 11. Being retired K-9, he was a Veteran in his own right.

I’m thankful for being back in permanent housing for nearly a year now?!?

!!

I’m also thankful for all of the Friends, Donors, Supporters, Agencies, etc, etc, that helped me reach that point, throughout my 19 months of Homelessness.

And, I’m thankful that my apartment is very affordable, without being Subsidized, and that the Property, though being nearly 60 years old is in good shape and very well maintained. Also thankful that the location is within easy walking distance, or an easy bus ride away from some of West Seattle’s and White Center’s best and coolest locally owned businesses.

Oh, and considering the condition I was in two years ago around this time, I’m thankful to be…..ALIVE!

Mike

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[datamuse]

Wakeflood, I swear, so many people I know lost pets last week…myself included, as I had to put my 18-year-old (near as we can figure) cat to sleep. I’m thankful for Dr. Gomez from the West Seattle Animal Hospital who was so kind and compassionate and offered to come to my house on her day off for the purpose. (And to the hospital, who saved this cat’s life twice during his life with me!)

I’m thankful for my husband, my friends, and for financial security, and for the means and ability to pursue creative goals that aren’t ever likely to be terribly remunerative, but which I’d find life pretty unbearable without.

Mostly I’m thankful to be in a position to help friends who need it. For whatever reason a lot of my friends are having incredibly tough times right now, and I’ve been lucky. (If I had a superpower, it would simply be to have good luck, and be able to transfer that luck to others.)

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[wakeflood]

So sorry for your loss too, DM. We are blessed to have had them in our lives.

I don’t know how those vets do it but I too am thankful for their skill and caring.

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[seaopgal]

Too many things to count … so I’ll just say that I’m grateful to live in such a beautiful place and for all the people who are helping to keep it so.

Condolences to those who have lost their special friends … they live on in your memories.

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[miws]

datamuse, sorry for your loss as well.

Mike

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[waynster]

I’m thankful for another day in which every American can observe such a great Holiday regardless of their religion, political and other beliefs. A big thank you goes out to those who are severing this great nation in uniform and can not be here with their love ones on this day as you sail, fly and fight in far away lands and to those who gave their lives for us.. I salute you. I’m thankful for 57 great years on this earth (yes still a youngster lol) and to all those who I have loved and lost and still love. To all my fellow WSB bloggers for putting up with me and my bs who I consider friends even though I have yet to meet you all in person… thank you…Thank You all and may this day be thankful for you too where ever you are….

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[Pibal]

I’m very thankful to the safety engineers at Subaru. My wife was traveling in “Ruby Sue” (it’s family tradition to name our cars), a 2004 Forester, on I-405 last Friday when she got caught in a squeeze play between two semis. Short story is she walked away from a horrific crash. Although the left side sheet metal was ripped apart, the hood was folded up, the front end severely compressed, and the rear window blown out, nothing squeezed the driver/passenger compartment. The seatbelt and airbag worked their magic. The end result was nothing more significant than a few bruises and some impact trauma.

About ten times a day, she walks around and says “Guess what? I’m alive!!!!”

Following the doctor’s report that “Looks like you’re gonna be just fine,” my wife offered the funniest line of the day: “So you’re saying I don’t need a face lift after all?”

I’m a lucky guy… Thanks God…

Happy Thanksgiving West Seattle!

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[JanS]

That’s amazing, Pibal! So glad she’s OK..but how scary that must have been. Yes, a big thanks to the powers that be that she is safe. You can always get a new car :D

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[mark47n]

I’m thankful for flashing bicycle lights.

I’m also thankful for my family, for my wife, whom I’ve loved since high school and my two daughters (usually).

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[gmabetty]

I’m thankful for the nice place I live in and the friends I have here. Also my family here

I’m thankful for my fairly good health, not perfect but how many are at 77? I could be so much worse.

Happy Thanksgiving to everybody!

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[Sonoma]

I am thankful for the parrot who is preening herself on my head, and who made it through a very scary sickness. Thanks to the avian vets who helped heal her!

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[JoB]

I am thankful for you

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[gmabetty]

Nice to see some good and happy thoughts. And no one has high jacked it to less. I’m sorry to those who have lost loving pets, I have in the past and its definitely a loss to all involved, same as a family member. You never forget them.

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