07/12/2025
❤️❤️ MEETING MY MANIAC ❤️❤️
This picture here was the very first time I ever met MAVIS……
I was sent videos of her asking if I wanted to buy her but I wasn’t too impressed, I was a bully guy, why would I want a Dutch Herder 🤷♂️🤷♂️😂😂
A week or 2 went by and then we popped through to see the owners as my ex had bought her Herder from them and then I got to see MAVIS in person, and it changed my mind a bit as I was so impressed with her…. But I still never made my mind up and left that day without her…..
I had a think….. we had all the stuff from the house fires, we nearly died in our beds, someone came and done this to us and nearly killed us in our sleep, and ARIA was now booked to see a psychologist etc because it affected her so bad, and so I thought….. this dog could be her comfort, her protector. So then I agreed that I’d buy her…..
I drove back over myself and met them at a pub, out came the guy with this wee brindle herder, I passed over the money, and then this wee dainty Herder was now in my passenger seat and I can mind phoning my ex and saying “I dunno what I’ve bought, she just looks like this rough wee skinny dog curled up on the seat compared to my bulls…. She looks like a whippet” 😂😂
But WOW….. this dog completely changed me, she helped me through the worst days, she was there when nobody else was and my head was listening to the devil on my shoulder, she saved Aria and gave her the confidence and bravery she needed to just be a happy kid again, and also meant that Aria didn’t need one single psychology session ❤️❤️
MAVIS was a choice I nearly never made, but that would have been the worst choice of my life.
Sometimes you need to listen to your heart and not your head….. sometimes what you think isn’t meant for you, is actually meant for you.
One short life, make the choice, even if it doesn’t feel right.
This dog done more for me than my family has 💯💯 and I actually can’t explain the part of me that has been missing since, I just smile and crack jokes regardless.
Like A MANIAC.