Welcoem to posts!!
in the future - u will be able to do some more stuff here,,,!! like pat catgirl- i mean um yeah... for now u can only see others's posts :c
Well whaddya mean I’m not taking pictures in front of no gramd canmon. 😂. As a sensible elder chihuahua, Porter wouldn’t pose in front of the Grand Canyon yesterday. So I grabbed a few awkward pictures of my wife holding him.
I hope you all are doing well ❤️
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We’re still hanging in there. Porter had a tooth removed last week but he’s feeling peppy this week. Just soaking up as many scratches as possible.
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I've tried making a video about this but every time I try to make one I end up bawling my eyes out.
As I'm sure most of you have noticed I have made even less videos than normal lately. Well, a big part of that is because Porter is now our only animal. When my wife accepted her new job we never anticipated this scenario. We re-homed the cats with friends when we moved because we were forced to rent and none of the places we were able to rent from accepted cats. They didn't accept more than 1 dog either, but we brought the dogs anyway.
It became immediately clear that Polly and Mae were very unhappy here with the heat and ultimately I felt horrible for making them live a miserable life. So they now live with friends in Canada. Mae lives on a large property with 2 dogs her age and frankly, she's probably much happier. Polly lives with an older woman who has an older MIN PIN. Initially our plan was to leave them with friends until my wife's 1 year contract was up. Now I'm thinking it might be unfair to them to make their lives more unstable though.
This has been incredibly difficult on me and I had a very severe panic attack the day we moved. I've also had thoughts of suicide, but I would never do that to my wife and child. I've been having nightmares about the animals ever since we've been here. I've never re-homed an animal before and certainly not ALL of my animals. But ultimately we didn't have much of a choice. I was miserable where we lived in Canada and my wife's job in Arizona was a massive opportunity, she literally is making over 3 times what she made in Canada and has gained a tremendous amount of new skills.
I feel like a terrible person and a hypocrite. I've often shamed people for frivolously surrendering their pets and here I am. This channel has never been about getting super high views or being a business. It has always been about my passion for animals, and Porter's story. I have never been interested in any kind of internet fame or financial incentive to keeping the channel going, but I do have a sense of obligation to keep it going because I care about all of the friends we've made here on youtube. At the very least I feel like you all deserve to see Porter until his last days. So I will continue to post videos about Porter. But we won't be adopting any new animals in the future until we are confident we are staying somewhere long term. Or well... Maybe I'll adopt one puppy at some point.
If you have something angry to say to me, that's fine. I won't even block you from the channel today for being mean. But nothing anyone can say will come close to how horrible I've felt. I have so much to say but I don't want to add to this massive wall of text. So thank you all for being with me on this weird ride.
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This last month has been an ordeal but we finally arrived in Arizona 2 nights ago. I've never seen Porter so happy!
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We have some VERY exciting news coming. Everything is about to change dramatically for Porter (and us all). I'm just going to tease a bit until I recover from this covid and make a video though! Let's just say that Porter's dream is about to come true, and not the dream where he gets infinite cheese and chicken.
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Artist rendition of that time Porter fought a group of coyotes all by himself! :)
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I know Mae bear isn't super popular on this channel, but I am SO proud of her. She does so well with small dogs, cats, foster kittens and today she's employing her nursing skills at work with mom :). Porter is still doing well and healing. I was going to record a video for yesterday, but I have what feels like bronchitis? Hopefully not.
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I took this photo of Porter the day before he was supposed to go to his new adopters back in 2018. Who could say no to those ears though? His face looks like he’s saying “well, whatdya mean I have new adopters?”.
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Find yourself someone who looks at you like this. :)
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The grass is always greener. I hope all of our southern friends are doing well in this heat. <3
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Chihuahua videos!
This is primarily a dog YouTube channel about my chihuahua dogs Porter and Polly and our Siberian husky, Mae. Porter is an abused dog with severe trauma and that is the core story of our channel but it's not something we focus on consistently. We cover other topics like our dog and cat rescue work as well as our dog and cat foster work. My wife is a shelter veterinarian who works at our local humane society and together we do our best to save and protect the animals that come into our care.
We have a blind cat named Svetlana as well as 5 other cats! Their cat youtube channel:
youtube.com/channel/UC3fpnHbrXkcN8APrZKEMK4w
If you have any questions or concerns, feel free to send me an email at porterandpolly@gmail.com