Willkommen / Welcome

Willkommen / Welcome
Um Gedichte zu lesen, wähle eine Kategorie (Sidebar rechts). / Select a category to read poems (sidebare right).

Wichtige Informationen / Important information:

Dieser Blog soll nicht nur eine Sammlung sein für alle, die wie ich Gedichte, Texte und einfach alles zum Thema Hund mögen, sondern auch eine Anerkennung für alle Autoren und Künstler, die uns mit ihren Werken große Freude bereiten, manchmal Trost spenden oder uns die Augen öffnen möchten für Missstände.

This blog is not only a collection for all of you who, like me, love poems, texts and simply everything about dogs, it is also intended to give recognition to all authors and artists who with their work give us great pleasure, sometimes solace and who also want to open our eyes to the abuse and neglect of animals.

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Ausgenommen meine eigenen Arbeiten, unterliegen alle in dieser Sammlung veröffentlichten Gedichte, Zitate, Geschichten etc. dem Urheberrecht des jeweiligen Verfassers. Leider ist mir dieser in den wenigsten Fällen bekannt. Ich möchte mich bei allen Autoren entschuldigen, die ich nicht namentlich erwähnt habe. Ich arbeite daran, die Autoren zu finden. Wer hier einen eigenen Text findet, dem wäre ich für eine Nachricht dankbar. Ich werde dann einen entsprechenden Hinweis (und/oder Link) ergänzen oder den Text umgehend entfernen.
Das Urheberrecht für meine eigenen Texte, Fotos und selbst erstellten Grafiken liegt allein bei mir. Kopieren oder jegliche Art von Weitergabe oder Veröffentlichung ist untersagt.

Copyright for all published poems, stories, quotes belongs to the respective author. Usually I don’t know the authors of the material and I would like to apologize to any authors who I don’t mention. I’m working to find the writers. If you do find your own work here, I would be grateful for an appropriate message. Then I’ll add a note (and/or a link) or will remove the text immediately. I look forward to hearing from you.
Copyright for my own writings, photos and graphics: Isa of Mayflower. Copying, spreading or any type of publication is prohibited.

Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts

2019/12/15

Missing you at Christmastime (14)

At Christmastime and ever since, the day that you were taken,
the lovely memories you've left, have never been forsaken.
They'll always stay as vivid, just as though you still were here,
and especially are cherished, at this special time of year.
There's never a day goes by, without joyful thoughts of you,
for, no one could bring happiness, in the way you used to do.

(Author unknown)

2019/12/14

Martha’s Christmas Miracle

Martha was sitting in her living room watching television this Christmas Eve, alone as she had been for the last five years. All of her children had married and moved to the four corners of the nation, her youngest, a surgery resident at the Vet School across the state had planned on coming home, but had been assigned to work the emergency clinic and couldn't find a replacement. Martha told herself that having Sally working to help the sick and injured animals this Christmas Eve was worth being alone, besides, Sally would be driving over for Christmas dinner the next afternoon.

All the animals had been fed and now were safely in either the kennel building or lazily laying around the house. Martha had to stop to think how many dogs she had at her house this Christmas, she sighed when she realized there were 16. She did rescue and the number of dogs was always changing with some dogs being adopted, and new abandoned dogs coming in. Feeling overwhelmed by the number of dogs she had and all the dogs still left in shelters to die because there was no room for them in rescue, Martha seriously wondered if she should stop working rescue. If she didn't have all these dogs, she could have flown to any of her other children's homes for the holidays to be with family. Besides, the heartbreak of seeing each dog in such need was beginning to really weigh on her.

2019/12/10

Missing you at Christmastime (13)

Now that you're no longer here, I hope you'll always know,
your memory is with me, everywhere I go.
Christmas has descended now, and happily I find,
that thoughts of all the fun we shared, are always on my mind.
I wish you peace at Christmas time, wherever you may be,
and thank you for the memories. They mean the world to me.

(Author unknown)

2019/12/06

A homeless pet's Holiday dream

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Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat 2014 entschieden, dass im Regelfall keine Urheberrechte verletzt werden, wenn Website-Betreiber sogenannte framende Links setzen. Dies geschieht zum Beispiel, wenn YouTube-Videos auf einer Internetseite eingebunden werden. 
In 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that normally no copyrights are violated if website operators use so-called framed links. This happens for example when YouTube videos on a website are included.

Why I left you ...

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Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat 2014 entschieden, dass im Regelfall keine Urheberrechte verletzt werden, wenn Website-Betreiber sogenannte framende Links setzen. Dies geschieht zum Beispiel, wenn YouTube-Videos auf einer Internetseite eingebunden werden. 
In 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that normally no copyrights are violated if website operators use so-called framed links. This happens for example when YouTube videos on a website are included.

2019/12/05

Missing you at Christmastime (12)

Christmas brings us peace and joy, tut it brings us sadness too,
and just like many others will, I'll spend it without you.
I miss you more at Christmas, than any other time of year,
my greatest Christmas gift by far, would be just to have you here.
But I know you're within a world of light, where you softly lie asleep,
and within my heart will always stay, Christmas memories that I'll keep.

(Author unknown)

2019/12/03

Weihnachten / Christmas

Zum mitnehmen / You can take these graphics
 














Diese Bilder dürfen mitgenommen und auch auf einer Homepage, einem Blog o. ä. veröffentlicht werden, jedoch muss ein Link zu meinem Blog hinzugefügt werden. Veränderungen (ausgenommen Größe), Ergänzungen, Weitergabe oder Vervielfältigung sind nicht erlaubt.
Ich würde mich über eine Information freuen, wo ich das Bild/die Bilder finden kann.

You can take this graphic(s) and publish it on your website, blog etc. but it’s necessary to add a link to my blog. Changes (except size), additions, disclosure or reproduction are not allowed.
I would be pleased about information where I can find the graphic(s).

2019/12/02

T'was the night before Christmas (at Rainbow Bridge)

'Twas the night before Christmas
I've found many canine versions of this Holiday classic – here one of the variants.

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T'was the night before Christmas, at Rainbow Bridge too.
We Bridge kids were thinking as always of you.
We'd seen how the holidays weren't bright this year,
Heard you whisper so often, "I wish you were here!"

We know how you wish you could just stay in bed
And sleep through the holiday lying ahead,
When all celebrate with their loved ones so near...
Unless they have loved ones on this side this year.

2019/12/01

Missing you at Christmastime (11)

Now that Christmastime is here, there are so many thoughts of you,
of how you were so thoughtful, and so kind and loving too.
This World is not the same, now that you aren't here to share,
the joy of the season, that surrounds us everywhere.
Nothing ever could compare even though it's Christmastime,
to the lovely memories, that you've left, within this heart of mine.

(Author unknown)

2019/11/30

Shelter compiles exact reasons for huge spike in surrenders after Christmas

Last year [2016], the Dogs Trust rehoming centers in Glasgow and West Calder, Scotland received 703 calls from pet owners looking to surrender their dogs in the weeks immediately following the holidays.

Staff members fielded excuses such as “I got him as a secret Santa present” and “She wags her tail far too much.”

The owners were clearly unmoved by the rescue’s slogan “A dog is for life, not just for Christmas.”

2019/01/18

Why I left you ...

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Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat 2014 entschieden, dass im Regelfall keine Urheberrechte verletzt werden, wenn Website-Betreiber sogenannte framende Links setzen. Dies geschieht zum Beispiel, wenn YouTube-Videos auf einer Internetseite eingebunden werden. 
In 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that normally no copyrights are violated if website operators use so-called framed links. This happens for example when YouTube videos on a website are included.

2018/12/25

Merry Christmas from Rainbow Bridge

(Source: Facebook)

Merry Christmas


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Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat 2014 entschieden, dass im Regelfall keine Urheberrechte verletzt werden, wenn Website-Betreiber sogenannte framende Links setzen. Dies geschieht zum Beispiel, wenn YouTube-Videos auf einer Internetseite eingebunden werden.
In 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that normally no copyrights are violated if website operators use so-called framed links. This happens for example when YouTube videos on a website are included.

The Gift

‘Twas the night before Christmas at the SPCA,
no one was stirring or wanting to play.
We were all just sitting there biding our time;
the Bassett Hound in with me was just about blind.
I tried to help the old guy as much as I could,
hoping that Santa knew that I had been good.

The only thing I wanted for Christmas this year was a nice,
warm home with plenty of cheer.
See the owner I had somehow lost his job,
and our new landlord was kind of a snob.
He told my owner, I don't allow pets,
so I ended up here, where it's cold, dark and wet.

My first night in here was the worst you see,
all the other dogs were snarling at me.
Then they put me in here with Jake; he's my friend.
He is very old, he said he was ten!
He told me all about the man that wears black.
He takes pets outside, but they never come back.

2018/12/24

King of the Track

I went with my mom to the pet store today.
We needed dog food and new Frisbees for play.
When mom pulled into her parking place,
a man and woman were in each other’s face.
Seems she had taken his parking spot.
These Christmas shoppers make a full parking lot.

Mom leashed me up and said, Let’s get in the store.
We headed in as she locked her doors.
On the way in I saw a strange sight,
six tall skinny dogs wearing harnesses so tight.
I heard a woman saying these dogs used to race.
This one right here was always in first place.

Merry Christmas to all / Frohe Weihnachten für alle


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Der Europäische Gerichtshof (EuGH) hat 2014 entschieden, dass im Regelfall keine Urheberrechte verletzt werden, wenn Website-Betreiber sogenannte framende Links setzen. Dies geschieht zum Beispiel, wenn YouTube-Videos auf einer Internetseite eingebunden werden.
In 2014 the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decided that normally no copyrights are violated if website operators use so-called framed links. This happens for example when YouTube videos on a website are included.