Whispering Paws llc

01/27/2024

"Every day is brighter with my 4 legged family member by my side. From morning cuddles to late-night adventures, their unconditional love fills our home with joy. 🐾❤️ Grateful for the endless smiles and moments that make life extraordinary.

12/17/2023

Looking for activities in the area today. Trinadad to Pueblo

12/12/2023

Thank you to Joanne U. Of Local Roots grocery for hosting a wonderful Tea Party on Sunday afternoon

12/04/2023

Good Morning Colorado, meet Aux

12/02/2023

Stop by and say hi.

11/22/2023

Good morning Colorado, meet Sweet Pea with Emma

11/17/2023

Good Morning Colorado, and a beautiful day it is! Woke up to an enormous buck with 10 doe wandering in the field nearby. Didn’t get a picture, but here is one Emma relaxing in the hot tub.

10/28/2023

10/27/2023

A read that will warm your heart!

WHY DOGS LIVE LESS THAN HUMAN

Here's the surprising answer of a 6-year-old child.

Being a veterinarian, I had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Belker. The dog’s owners, Ron, his wife Lisa, and their little boy Shane, were all very attached to Belker, and they were hoping for a miracle.

I examined Belker and found he was dying of cancer. I told the family we couldn’t do anything for Belker, and offered to perform the euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their home.

As we made arrangements, Ron and Lisa told me they thought it would be good for six-year-old Shane to observe the procedure. They felt as though Shane might learn something from the experience.

The next day, I felt the familiar catch in my throat as Belker‘s family surrounded him. Shane seemed so calm, petting the old dog for the last time, that I wondered if he understood what was going on. Within a few minutes, Belker slipped peacefully away.

The little boy seemed to accept Belker’s transition without any difficulty or confusion. We sat together for a while after Belker’s Death, wondering aloud about the sad fact that dogs' lives are shorter than human lives. Shane, who had been listening quietly, piped up, ”I know why.”

Startled, we all turned to him. What came out of his mouth next stunned me. I’d never heard a more comforting explanation. It has changed the way I try and live.

He said, ”People are born so that they can learn how to live a good life — like loving everybody all the time and being nice, right?” The six-year-old continued,

”Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don’t have to stay for as long as we do.”

Live simply.
Love generously.
Care deeply.
Speak kindly.

Remember, if a dog was the teacher you would learn things like:

• When your loved ones come home, always run to greet them.
• Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride.
• Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure Ecstasy.
• Take naps.
• Stretch before rising.
• Run, romp, and play daily.
• Thrive on attention and let people touch you.
• Avoid biting when a simple growl will do.
• On warm days, stop to lie on your back on the grass.
• On hot days, drink lots of water and lie under a shady tree.
• When you’re happy, dance around and wag your entire body.
• Delight in the simple joy of a long walk.
• Be faithful.
• Never pretend to be something you’re not.
• If what you want lies buried, dig until you find it.
• When someone is having a bad day, be silent, sit close by, and nuzzle them gently.

That's the secret of happiness that we can learn from a good dog.

07/16/2023

Hey All, Dance with me ‘One Last Dance’ and then send me traveling like this woman sent her husband. I look forward to someone following through on this request, Cathy!

07/05/2023

Spotlight on local Businesses!

Whispering Paws Handcrafted Memorials

We create custom, hand-crafted Pet Memorials using reclaimed and repurposed materials, or even something that was special to the pet in life - a branch from a tree he rested under or a piece of wood from their first doghouse. We also offer specialized Free Laser Engraving to preserve a special message between just you two.

Tell us about your pet and we will come up with a beautiful design that will truly honor their memory and give them a beautiful resting place right at your side, just like they would have wanted. Reach out and let us honor your pet the way they deserve.

https://www.whisperingpaws.co/about
303-444-4436

Whispering Paws llc

05/21/2023

Wow! Beautiful Voice, beautiful Song. Can you relate?

02/01/2023

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11/22/2022

And the winner is April P.
Check out next giveaways at the next winter pop up and at the Walsenberg Merchantile.

09/20/2022

I sure am glad I’m retired and don’t have to abide by all of these boneheaded constant rules taking time from teachers actually spending with the kidos. I truly empathize with my fellow colleagues and thank them for staying on the front line for the kids. Maybe they should get the same benefits as our wonderful veterans who served on the front lines also. I was a middle school teacher for 25 years, loved it, but it became a battleground at the end for me when some became ‘ entitled’!

“Here is my classroom library. This is over 1,600 books chosen for my elementary students. This is over a decade and thousands of dollars and countless donations of collecting. This is my students’ favorite place to go in my classroom. This is where I go when I have a reluctant reader to find something just right to spark their interest.

According to the state of Texas, this is dangerous. This is a place where children may be indoctrinated or exposed to inappropriate content. This is just one more area where teachers cannot be trusted as educational experts. This is a battleground.

By November, every single teacher in my district, no matter their grade or subject, has to enter the title, author, and year published for every book in their classroom into a spreadsheet. Then we have to go through a painstaking process to vet each and every book---even if we’ve read them, even if we grew up reading them---to make sure that “real experts” have determined that the book content is appropriate for the age level we teach, and also enter that data.

Over the summer, I took every one of these books home and scanned them into my own library system. All I had to do was scan the barcode on the back. This process alone took me over 6 hours. With this new process, each book alone will take a few minutes.

So what am I going to do? I already don’t have on-contract time to do all the things we are required to do. What I’m going to do is box up every one of these books and put them away. And these shelves will be bare. I won’t be the only one putting away all of my books. Classrooms across Texas will be bare of libraries because of this.

I ugly-cried this morning. One of my favorite things about my job is getting emails from parents telling me how enthusiastically their child is now reading at home.

How are kids going to learn to love to read if they can’t hold books in their hands? Putting barriers between kids and books is one of the worst things I can think of.

And here's the real kicker: they already have the world at their fingertips. They can find ANY illicit material they want on the smartphones and tablets they are parked in front of constantly.

Sure, there are some vigilant parents who make sure their children are never exposed to anything they don’t want them to see. And while these parents could have chosen to take their kids to the public libraries themselves and choose books they deem appropriate, instead they chose to raise up their voices against teachers like me and decide that everyone’s child should be restricted; every child should have to live up to whatever standards they have chosen for their own children. They've made it clear they think we're all in this profession to tarnish and brainwash their children. This TINY minority of people are the ones who are making things like this happen. And just like with everything else in our under-funded, under-respected, over-worked, under-paid, under-staffed industry, we're probably all going to roll over and take it.

And more teachers will continue to quit.

I LOVE my students. I would NEVER put anything in my classroom library that I thought might expose them to something inappropriate or too mature. I know I can get parent volunteers to come in and donate their time to help me catalog my extensive collection. But what I'm really mourning is the absolute lack of trust in highly-trained educators who have poured their souls into this profession and the children of people who believe we're indoctrinating them.

How much more of this can we withstand?”

by Emily Clay
shared with permission
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Hey friend, while you’re here thinking that the world needs more books and more joy…may I suggest a read that can scratch both itches? You know the girl who wrote it. ❤️

Crazy Joy: https://amzn.to/3xGgUdA