Gizmo the Goofball - Coming to you from the rainbow bridge

01/12/2020

Howdy Hoomans! I'm happy to report progress in my mom's sadness. The other night she was washing my old dinner bowl and thought about how I'd carry it around but would pick it up from the front and leave a little trail of food in my travels -- and it made her smile instead of cry. Yay! I have to give The Grease Girls a lot of credit for bringing goofiness back to my mom....but I take all the credit for finding them for her and I chose them well.

I've taught them how to create a page of their very own. You can find them at https://www.facebook.com/TheGreaseGirls/ So I'm going to enjoy playing with all my friends here at the bridge until we're all together again and let the girls take over more frequent posts. I'll check in from time to time just to remind you all that I'm still the goofiest and share rainbow bridge happenings with you. Meanwhile, head over to the girl's page and keep tabs on their shenanigans!

Love from the bridge,
Gizmo

21/11/2020

Looks like mom’s going to have to get dogtv for ChaCha

21/11/2020

I think it's safe to say the girls are settling in! :)

15/11/2020

Hi Furiends! We did it! We got mom smiling again. The Grease Girls (Rizzo & ChaCha) have moved in and I'm so happy they're having a blast with my toys and all the ones their fans have sent them. They are a bit of the celebrities, so I'm going to teach them how to make one of these pages to let their fans know how they're doing too. I'll post a link here once they're ready.

They are a little jittery, but I've told them how my mom is really good at keeping dogs safe from the scary things and making them not so scary after a while. I've also told them how to make her smile with things like slobbery kisses and goofy antics. They're both good at those things so I think my plan is going well!

Stay tuned! With love from the bridge,
Gizmo

02/11/2020

Hi ya friends! My mom has still been so sad and I know that we dogs are really the only ones that can get her smiling again. She was dabbling with looking on petfinder but not really getting very serious about it. So my sister holly and I got talking about it and figured out how to really get her. We put a video of an in the woods rescue into her newsfeed knowing she’d be drawn in. Sure enough, she watched every video of their back story and every post about them after they got caught. They weren’t up for adoption yet and mom was thinking she still might not be ready and they were 2 hours away but she figured what the heck, may as well put in an application and maybe they’d be ready when she was. That night she asked me again “what do you think giz-am I ready for more dogs?” Well duh mom.
So I had the rescue contact her the very next day and kept the process going every day so she would start getting excited about it. She met them today and it’s looking like they’ll be moving in in a couple weeks. More to come soon...

Love from the bridge,
Gizmo

25/10/2020

Sometimes the best thing is just to let mom cry and miss me. I put this on her radio to tell her I'm still with her and one day we'll be together again.

All my furry friends here at the bridge want their furever families to know that their life and their love goes on in your heart & your mind and they'll stay with you for all of time.

Post a picture of who's waiting for you here at the bridge in the comments.

Love from the bridge,
Gizmo

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18/10/2020

Last night, mom said "thank you for sending Dorothy my way, but I miss your sloppy kisses". So I put the word out to a little neighborhood pittie who doesn't usually walk down our street that my mom needed some wet pittie kisses. His name is Blue, which is also my little brother's name (who finally likes me now that we're here at the bridge!). So Blue brought his mom down our street where my mom was out shoveling a never ending pile of dirt. He gave her non-stop kisses just like I used to give her and it made her smile. I'm just going to keep on sending her these messages from me so that someday soon she'll have more smiles than tears again...

10/10/2020

Ok, so here's what I did for mom next. I know her so well. I know she's not ready to share her whole heart with another furbabe yet even though I want her too. I also know how she will always help a furry one who needs her. And I didn't want her to spend the first weekend without me moping around without any sloppy kisses. Plus I wanted to start getting her used to the idea of having someone not quite as magnificent and goofy as me there, but someone to share the love all the same.

Win-win -- I saw sweet senior girl Dorothy needed a place to stay for a week outside of a noisy shelter before she heads to her long term foster in Rhode Island next Saturday. I made sure mom saw the email asking for help. And she knew it was me telling her to help cuz mom knows me just as well as I know her.

So, say hi to Dorothy! She showed up at a shelter in Delaware as a stray. She was microchipped, but the chip wasn't registered (furparents - don't forget to register the microchips!). No one came to claim this poor old girl so Above & Beyond English Setter Rescue stepped up to rescue her. She's 12 years old, and although she's got a cough right now and meds for it, she's still got a little s***k. She liked doing perimeter trots around the yard while my mom mowed (mom got done quicker without throwing my ball every row). Even though I'd be happy to see her play with my toys and squeaky balls, she doesn't really seem into them. But she does like Frosty Paws (I mean really...I'd think she's not really a dog if she didn't).

Mom's going to give her a bath tomorrow (hope she likes those more than I did!) and work on brushing out some of her matts so she can be even more beautiful than she already is. Meanwhile, they're just going to chill and snuggle and think about me with more smiles than tears.

Stay tuned for more on Dorothy and other ways I show my mom I'm still keeping tabs on her....

With love from the rainbow bridge,
Gizmo

08/10/2020

Here's the handsome puppers I told you about - remember Don't Shop - Adopt!

08/10/2020

Hello my fans! It's taken me a few days to settle in here but I wanted you all to know that while I may not be in your world anymore physically, I'm still keeping tabs and sending love.

I was worried about coming here knowing how sad it was going to make my mom, but my sister is here too and she said she'd show me ways to help make my mom happy again.

I heard mom ask me to let her know if I was still watching her and listening to her, so one of the first things I did was to put a picture in her newsfeed of a pup that looks just like I did when I first went to the shelter so she'd know I'm young and healthy and happy all over again (I'll share that post just in case anyone's looking for such a handsome boy to adopt!)

Stay tuned for the next thing I've done to help my mom smile again...

With love from the rainbow bridge,
Gizmo

27/07/2020

Score! Mom entered me into a conference contest. I am pretty darn cute. (I’m sure the magazine plug had nothing to do with my win 🤣)

07/07/2020

Aint no better place to chill than your furever home. I spent this year's gotcha day just chillin with my mom. Happy Gotcha Day to me!

15/05/2020

Rut roh shaggy - barkbox day!!

05/05/2020

Basking in the dog days of quarantine

05/04/2020

03/04/2020

Werk? I halps.

19/03/2020

Best day of muth 🐾

20/02/2020

I’d like to thank the squirrel, the mailman and the wind blowing random things around for my inspiration. Thank you BarkBox, mom, and of course all of you, my fans, who made this Barkie award possible. When I chew up this trophy, I’ll be thinking of you!