Good tidings from Kelly Preston and Mr MaGoo

No Matter If Hoof, Paw, or Foot - We All Deserve a Chance at Love

by Mr MaGoo, Co-author with Kelly Preston of Real Dogs Don’t Whisper

Woof! Howdy folks, I am Mr MaGoo, co-author with Kelly Preston of Real Dogs Don’t Whisper. Actually the book was all my idea. I let Mom think it was hers, since we have to throw our parents a bone every now and then. Mom shared with me that I would be a pawing up a few lines here. At first I thought she lost her kibble. What on Earth would I paw about in a magazine that has creatures, um, what are they called? Oh yeah, horses. What the heck are these guys called horses?

First, Carla Mae and I had to do canine research and find out what a horse was. Carla and I got in the car, Mom was busy being a crazy lady, and I drove us all over CA to find a horse. Whew! It wasn’t as easy as I first thought.

Image Credit: Kelly Preston   Mr MaGoo and Carla Mae

We just had to get out and stretch our legs and tails. Lo and behold, what did we stumble across? A horse! Now folks, this horse – we learned later it was a pony - did not sound like us, did not smell like us, and it certainly didn’t go, “woof woof”.

Needless to say, when I heard the lovely furiend try to talk to Carla and I in a language that sounded like “neigh”, I had to really do some tail thumpin’ and wondering what would I paw up about?

Then, I knew! Wuv! No matter if hoof, paw, foot, or fin, don’t we all want and need wuv? In my book, I bark about how Betty Boop survived much longer than Doc thought because she had our wuv. Boopie Bear, as I used to call her, was given a second chance in life all due to Mom’s wuv. Same thing with my other sister, Buffy. She had many other problems, and she overcame them because of wuv. Oh my! Let me tell you about Carla Mae - she was very angry because she wasn’t wuved. After a short time with me, I taught her about wuv.

I did some digging in Mom’s yards and found out she had two horses when she was just a young pup. One was Honey, who had been abused. From what I dug up, Honey was just that, sweet as honey. Mom and her sister gave Honey lots of wuv and Honey wuved them back. Mom and her sister had to go off to college and they gave Honey to a family that had a little boy with cerebral palsy. Wow! Talk about keepin’ the wuv going and helping out a family in need. Furiends, not only did Mom help Honey receive more wuv, she gave a family a chance at happiness with wuv too.

Mom’s other horse, Dandy Boy, had a medical condition to do with his hoofs. One sec, I need to go and Goo-gle it - oh yeah, navicular disease. From Mom’s trail here in the yard, she had a tuff decision to make; she elected to give Dandy Boy the care he needed to keep him pain free. Dandy Boy wuved her for this and he became her BFF in high school.

Wuv is a very pa-werful thing. While we may not be able to actually hold it, we do hold it in our heart. Hmm, maybe Doc should try to bottle wuv, whacha think?

The humans have a saying that goes like this: “If you judge people, you have no time to love them.” If Mom judged Honey based on her appearance, she would have missed out a beautiful horse. If Mom judged Dandy Boy about his medical condition, she would have missed out on a BFF. If Mom had judged Betty Boop, she would have missed out on a miracle.

Furiends, are you judging and missing out God’s greatest gift, wuv? Are you judging how we look and run away? Or, are you looking at a situation, thinking “what’s needed is a treat called wuv”?

Yep, this is life lesson that my sisters taught Mom- “Love Conquers All”.

Furiends, thank you for having me play in your yard. My gate is always open, so come on over and play in my yard too. www.realdogsdontwhisper.com

Off to spread and share wuv; wouldn’t cha join me?

Lots of wuv

Mr MaGoo

Image credit: Kelly Preston  Mr MaGoo and Carla Mae

Kelly Preston of San Jose, CA is a special-needs animal rescuer with a life like no other. She and Mr. MaGoo are both authors of Real Dogs Don’t Whisper and their freelance work has also appeared in numerous publications. Partial proceeds from book sales go to FACE Foundation, where Kelly volunteers. Visit Kelly and her dogs at http://www.realdogsdontwhisper.com

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Excerpt from Backyard Horse Tales: Sox 2^nd Edition - 

a Mom’s Choice Award Winner by Jackie Anton 

 

“Christmas at the boarding stable was different from the same holiday at home. It was my third Christmas there, but Santa still found me every year. He brought me a new winter blanket, and he filled the new fuzzy red stocking that hung on my stall door. I was a little worried that he might have put my name on the naughty list, and it would remain empty. Last year one of the stable hands just rolled my door over while he emptied and cleaned my water bucket. In a flash, I used my muzzle to roll open the door and snatch my stocking! It was mostly empty by then, and I pretty much shredded it trying to get at the last of my goodies.

My Christmas stocking was always filled with carrots, dried apple slices, and peppermints. My treats lasted for a couple of weeks, only because Katie miserly doled out only one or two per day. Mom was stalled next to me.

“I noticed that Emma is not as stingy with your ration of treats,” I complained.

Don’t you know, Mom caught me tearing up my stocking!

“Sox! How is Santa going to fill that next year when you trashed it?”

I tried to hide the evidence under the bedding in the back of my stall, but Katie found it.

Great! Then I had to listen to another lecture. You are going to have to be very good the remainder of the year, Sox. It is the only way to get off of the bad boy list so Santa doesn’t pass you by next Christmas.”

Jackie Anton is the author of "Backyard Horse Tales: Sox 2nd Edition" which has been awarded the prestigious Mom's Choice Award Silver Seal of Excellence. Backyard Horse Tales 2 "Frosty and the Night Stalker" is now an e-book on Amazon and Smashwords. Print release is March 2013. Visit Jackie at: http://www.talesbyjackie.com