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Shehar Segal, millionaire (possibly billionaire), the person behind "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation", was first hired to w...
06/28/2025

Shehar Segal, millionaire (possibly billionaire), the person behind "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation", was first hired to work with the IDF to help with branding after Oct 7.
"When Hamas attacked Israel in 2023 and Israel began its offensive in Gaza, Segal lent his branding expertise to the army, he told an Israeli podcast last year."
"I found myself in the army dealing with influence operations - narrative building," he says. "Fighting the narrative war against Hamas."
"A person familiar with GHF's activities says the Israeli government asked Shahar Segal, the Israeli restaurant owner, to join the group to project the image that the initiative has nutritional value for Gazans."
"Segal sends daily updates about the Gaza food project from his base in New York, where his restaurant group is expanding to a new luxury condo development in Brooklyn."


There's so much to say. 17 years ago a friend drove me to the south shore to meet a dog named Tuna. He was wild, hyper, ...
06/23/2025

There's so much to say.

17 years ago a friend drove me to the south shore to meet a dog named Tuna. He was wild, hyper, barky and and running around jumping on us. A few days later, June 23, 2009, he was home with me.
He's been gone 6 months and I'm still grieving.
I miss his barking, his destruction of toys, his hu***ng of pillows (his own), his love of sticks, his love of just laying down and sniffing the air, his love of games.
I miss his snoring, the sound of his paws when he walked around, and I miss talking to him, telling him he's a good boy. I miss him sleeping next to me while I worked and coming with me to walk dogs, and being his grumpy self when we had doggy guests staying with us.
You know what I don't think about?
I don't think "I should have corrected him more", "I should have used an e-collar", "I should have je**ed the leash harder", "I should have used more fear and more stress in his training"
In fact, I regret every moment I was ever impatient, or harsh, or stern with him. These moments, though they were few and far between, haunt me. Especially those from the first couple of months because I didn't know anything about dog behaviour or training then.
Another thing that weighs heavily on my mind are the people of Palestine. Those in Gaza have lost everything, many have lost their pets too. But their pets didn't die peacefully, with a sedative and some treats they're not usually allowed to have. If I'm struggling with the loss of Boss, how the f**k are they doing with not just the loss of their pets, but losing friends and family, belongings, mementos, their homes and with the loss just piling on? How do they not just curl up in a ball and sob? How do they keep going through all of this AND starvation, no clean water, no menstrual products, no medication, nothing.
I f**king miss Boss and I recognize that just grieving him is a privilege that millions of people in Palestine, Sudan, Congo don't have. I get to hold Boss' sweater, have a keepsake of his fur, spend time looking at pictures of him.
I get to curl up and do nothing but cry if I don't feel like doing anything.
I get to celebrate his gotcha day.
Happy gotcha day Boss man.

It's the little things. Like cutting up a cucumber. I pick up the ends and turn to toss them to Boss. It's so automatic,...
06/19/2025

It's the little things. Like cutting up a cucumber. I pick up the ends and turn to toss them to Boss.
It's so automatic, that I only realize what I'm doing once I've turned and Boss isn't there.
It's not the first time I've cut cucumbers since he's been gone, but after 16 years of giving him pieces of cucumber while I slice it doesn't just stop because he isn't there anymore.
I turn and he's not there and I'm f**king shattered all over again.
It's not just that he's not here as though he were somewhere else like at the cottage with my parents because I'm dog sitting a dog reactive dog.
No. He's not there because he no longer exists.
Like he never existed and I'm the only one who saw him.
Like a ghost.
Or like everyone's memories of him have been erased and I'm the only one who remembers who he was.
And I'm the only one who misses him.

Just chillin' and sniffin
06/18/2025

Just chillin' and sniffin

06/12/2025

Moshi and Aputi became BFFs very quickly.

We need a thousand . Every celebrity who has worn Palestines colours on the red carpet, who has declared they support P...
06/09/2025

We need a thousand . Every celebrity who has worn Palestines colours on the red carpet, who has declared they support Palestine but haven't done anything to help, should be on a ship helping to bring aid. They have the money, the means, the power and influence to do more than wearing a pin and do more than sharing posts on social media.

Moshi doing some sunbathing and being curious about the doggo on the upstairs balcony. #514
06/07/2025

Moshi doing some sunbathing and being curious about the doggo on the upstairs balcony.

#514

Someone had fun playing with the hose while I was trying to water my plants.
06/06/2025

Someone had fun playing with the hose while I was trying to water my plants.

I think the trainers who use punishment and/or pain to teach dogs have never been to therapy. I don't mean that in the s...
05/21/2025

I think the trainers who use punishment and/or pain to teach dogs have never been to therapy. I don't mean that in the sense of "they need therapy", I mean it in the sense that they've never experienced it.

It's amazing how often during my therapy sessions, my therapist will say something and a little light bulb goes off in my head "oh! In dog training we call that..."

This week it was "oh, in dog training we call that a 'positive interrupter'".

Has this happened to you?

I don't find people talk about grief after a couple months have gone by. I don't know if it's because of guilt, we feel ...
05/16/2025

I don't find people talk about grief after a couple months have gone by. I don't know if it's because of guilt, we feel bad for "still" being sad, or we feel annoying for "still" talking about it, that we "still" miss our dog.

But f**k man, I wish people had. I wish I had seen posts 4, 8, 11 months later of people talking about how grief still hits them.

It's been 4 months without Boss this week.
He's still everywhere and still nowhere.
I picked up this brown paper to put in the recycling bin and I froze as I balled it up. I used to toss it to Boss for him to rip up. Or put it in a small cardboard box for him to destroy and his "reward" was ripping up the paper. He loved to destroy things. I called him "the destructor" (said in a WWE announcer voice).

I hold this ball of paper and I think "he doesn't get to rip it up". I think of it as though he's missing out on something, but he's not. He's not here to miss anything. Not only is he not here, but he has ceased to exist. He no longer exists. He's a memory, a picture, or a video. He's my broken heart, the tightness in my chest, the empty spot beside me on walks, on the couch, at friends homes. He's the toys that don't get played with, the treats that don't get eaten, the bones that don't get chewed. He's the quiet, the stillness, and all the empty spaces in my home.

I don't think grief gets easier.
I think we just become functional grievers.

Got to dog nap my upstairs neighbours' dog for a bit. She's such a happy girl. Love Aputi!She was pooped after having ha...
04/29/2025

Got to dog nap my upstairs neighbours' dog for a bit. She's such a happy girl. Love Aputi!

She was pooped after having had the zoomies. She always wants to come over, so she was very excited to finally come inside and to the yard. She went nuts and tired herself out 😂

After putting Boss down I scoured the internet for pet memorial ideas. I had some fur clippings and didn't know what to ...
02/18/2025

After putting Boss down I scoured the internet for pet memorial ideas. I had some fur clippings and didn't know what to do with them.
Had I known all the things that can be done with fur clippings and ashes, I would have definitely thought more about getting his ashes and I would have asked for more fur.

I often go on Etsy for ideas. So I immediately went there and typed "pet memorials" and found a few things but this is what really struck a chord with me.

You're able to choose from a variety of breeds, the wood colour and the name or message you want.
Boss was a Jack Russell x Cocker Spaniel. The Jack Russell looked most like him, but before ordering I contacted the seller to ask if they could make the tail shorter seeing as Boss's tail had been cropped.
He said he could make that modification for me.
I got an email last week that it's been shipped and I'll be receiving it in March.

This is why I now encourage pet owners to start planning ahead for their pets eventual passing.
Had I known about this pet hair memorial box, I would have taken more fur.
Plan ahead so you know what you want, what to do, when the time comes.

If you've lost your pet, how did you memorialize them?

https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1696867160/personalised-pet-hair-memorial-box?ref=share_v4_lx

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