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Dora Report: Saturn Through Virgo Has Taken It’s Toll.
Astrology in real life
Regarding, Dora, I found out in the snow storm that she is now very probably totally blind (she was able to see shadows) and also appears to be completely deaf as well.
With no snow on the ground she uses her nose and gets around normally but with snow on the ground she is completely disabled and went trekking off, panicked, in the wrong direction of the backyard, plowing through snow up to her neck putting herself (I am sure) into shock of one degree or the other.
By the time I got out to rescue her, she had just her head sticking up and when I lifted her out of the snow, it clung to her skinny body, stiff as a board like always when you pick her up, it was like holding an ice cube. I quickly brought her inside.
I had shoveled for her as always… last year she did not have this trouble and the other thing is, I was yelling at her when she took off the wrong way - and I mean YELLING and she couldn’t hear me at all.
I was as shocked as she was… I thought she’d just go out normally like last year so it was just horrible.
From her perspective, she was going out on a cold day… no idea there was snow out there, see? And all the sudden surrounded with snow up to her ears.
This damned dog has been through so much. Been hit by at least one car, burned, starved, beaten.
::laughs::
I just realized all that stuff has happened to me too.
Anyway, on the upside she has a gorgeous new tag, new clothes and I sent her grandmother her picture so really everything is okay.
24 Responses to “Dora Report: Saturn Through Virgo Has Taken It’s Toll.”
She’s been almost blind for years and going deaf. But she can still get petted, sleep in her bed, be good company and attack both Cluck and Vid, entertain us with her antics AND she is still the begger dog of all time. She gets along fine… obviously, this is why it was so shocking. I have never seen a little dog plow through snow that covered her body. Had I not been there to see it, she’d have buried herself alive.
I am telling you it was a terror and a horror and also okay once I got her back inside. I mean, she was sleeping in her bed 5 minutes later, that’s what I mean, this dog have been through a lot.
I guess I wasn’t clear. What I am saying is she gets along fine / normal just with her nose. I had no idea she had degraded anyway but with that much snow… well her nose is worthless. Nose hits, the snow, what’s that?
You should see her since it melted. She’s out the mapping the yard with her nose, like never before. She is figuring out just what the fuck. She is smart and resilient. More so than a lot of people you might know or here of and it’s a pleasure and an education to watch her go, go, go.
go Dora!
Oh Dora, poor thing! What a sweetheart! She really takes a lickin’ and keeps on tickin’, no doubat about it.
Thinking about Dora lost in the snow makes me cry.
But then, I’m the kind of freak who loses sleep worrying that my dog will think I abandoned him when I go away for a week.
I’m glad you made it to her in time! She sounds like a tough old gal.
Thanks, Bananas. I’d never seen anything like it in my life, but yeah. She could care less. She’s done nothing but keep going all her life and she’s still able to get 2 10 year olds back up against the wall or in one case, I found them both standing on a chair where she had them cornered, so “feeble” is not the word for her… except for when you take her for services.
I took her somewhere new (mistake) for a nail clip and woman acted like I was Dog Abuse Central. To hell with it, I don’t have time to explain.
((((little dora d!))))
(Bananas I’ve actually cried thinking my teddy bear from childhood thinks I’ve abandoned him–jeez,over sensitive??)
Wow, I’d love to see her natal chart.
Her experience of Saturn in Virgo, and the way she manages to compensate, reminds me of someone I know…
Go, Dora! (And also, thank goodness for familiar beds.)
StephB - do you know the soldier found her in Puerto Rico, starving, with mange? She had no hair, save a strip along her back and was badly scarred. An army medic fixed her up and the soldier smuggled her home on a military plane, Dora hid in his coat.
Anyway, she had been burned, beaten, she was just a total fright but he got her home and he’s had her for about 14 years and she’s caused nothing but trouble and trauma the whole time.
She’s got like 9 lives or something! But hearing about her in the snow did kinda make me emotional.
He said she used to get out in the yard and run in a big circle, fast like a streak, happy as hell. “You can’t catch me…”
She can’t do this anymore due blindness but I swear this dog dreams all day, mostly good dreams.
When she first got here she used to have agitated dreams but now she just lies in her bed 18 inches away from my chair and sleeps all day.
She also got abused by someone he had to leave her with. His mother rescued her from that which is how she got here… we flew her here and his mother is so thoughtful she arrived with a tag with her name and local number already on it but anyway…
That was because she ran off once and was found 6 miles away… she’s also been picked up by a dog catcher and got the soldier kicked off a campground besides dumping him over in a canoe but what I was saying was when she first got here she was okay but the first time he left and she was with me alone she all the sudden crouched down like I was going to beat her. I couldn’t believe it.
Thanks, Elsa. I didn’t know the story, but I think I did know she must have been rescued. Lucky, lucky dog to have found you guys. And love is such a trouble, isn’t it? Oh, Dora!
Trauma and luck and love. A very rich life. Oh, and she’s had adventure, too!
By the way, I have seen somewhat aging poodles in the deep snow. And you’re right, they really do love their sense of smell, which doesn’t work very well in the snow! Especially if the snow is fluffy and high, they can get pretty disoriented.
She’s been in about 10 states, flown about 6 times and spent 2 weeks one Christmas, “livin’ off the land” with the soldier and his son.
The three of them were dropped off at the shoreline by a boat with… the boat was to pick them up 2 weeks later. The soldier’s son reports this to be the best memory of his life (he was a teenager)… not sure what Dora thought of it but did hear they were out there in the woods and had to wade across a river up above their waists. Dora was supposed to swim across and set out to do so but the water was cold so she said, fuck this and swam back.
The soldier and and his son were clear across before they realized she’d done an about face. They looked over and there she was on the other side of the river, “Come get me and carry me…”
Next thing you know he was wading back across the freezing river (Christmas, see?) to get her and freezing his ass bringing her back.
It is due things like this he bitches about her constantly and he does think she is going to follow him through multiple lifetimes. He does love her but he is just sickened by her lack of hunting ability and the fact he did not get a dog like Lassie that he actually wants. 
She reminds me so much of my Holocaust-surviving grandmother once the Alzheimer’s set in. You simply could not convince the woman that you weren’t stealing from her or going to take her somewhere to meet a horrible fate. I felt so sorry for the nursing home personnel - always thought they must have assumed we were lifelong sadists, the way she was acting. But then she had her moments of lucidity, which I guess could be likened to snowmelts, and she’d be back to her old self for a while. It was a sad demise. I hope Dora’s last days are happy ones, and in your household, they’re most likely to be.
It’s no wonder dogs and cats have survived thousands of years on the heels of man. They are manipulative little bastards. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.
what a tough old lady… going out and remappin the terrain. stubborn.
we adopted a dog who was abused as a pup, and it took years before she’d stop acting like you were going to hit her when she was disciplined 
also adopted a cat like that. she’s settled down into comfortable old ladyhood now, but it was a lot of work at first.
hm. this was a bit chilling.
Best Wishes To Dora !!!
Just love signing on and seeing this face 
I will be like Dora when I am an old lady - my Dad was like Dora when he got old, and when he lost that oomph, well, that’s when he died. Of course, her being very loved is the key.
The resilience of animals is jaw-dropping. Love to Dora.
“I just realized all that stuff has happened to me too.”
I am convinced the we do not find our pets… that our pets find us. There is a reason she found her way to you and the soldier
HUGGGGGGGGGS Dora!! What a survivor!More than that, that girl has real quality of life..she has lived and continues to live a real wild story–with great “parents” and adventures that never stop..does life get any better than that???
She is one helluva gal!!!
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Love the pic! But J Christ, deaf and blind? Wow. Hope she’s okay.