The part about the boxer is the worst. I don't know what's wrong with LadyBug, but she's just not doing so well. She's an old dog... don't ask how old, because we don't know. My mother got her in a weird sort of way. I guess this means I should tell the whole story huh?

Well, to start off in the best way I know how, I have to say that my brother loves Boxers. He has ever since we moved here, and ended up across the street from some people who bred Boxers. Colin fell in love with the neighbor's dogs, so of course when the neighbor's dogs had their next litters of pups he had to have one. He has had Boxers ever since. He makes a habit of rescuing Boxers from the local pounds and shelters as well, and it's this habit of his that landed my mother with LadyBug.

I wrote Fahim Farook the author of Blog (the Blog posting interface I'm using), and the man actually wrote me back can you believe it??? Freeware, and he wrote me back! I like this guy! Well anyway, what he told me basically is that some of the things I wanted to do weren't actually possible. The biggest problem though... that of the posting order, was possible... I just didn't have the newest version of the software. He also went on to say, "You have certainly added quite a lot of 'tentative' features to the next release of Blog." Cool huh?

You see, LadyBug was abused early in life, and she was removed from her home and taken to a local shelter. When the shelter got her, they took care of her and soon had her back in good health so that she could be adopted. They called my brother when they determined her to be of good health to be adopted, and he told them he'd be by to pick her up later in the week when he was off work. Well, an hour before my sister-in-law arrived to pick her up she'd already been adopted. By some neighbors of my brother of all things! This would have been fine and dandy for everyone concerned, but somewhere along the line, the neighbors were seen abusing LadyBug. Of course this mistreatment didn't set well with my brother, and he was very upset over the whole thing.