Hiya' from the middle of nowhere Texas

[Skigod377]

Shandi wrote:

Melody sent me the link since I never even knew this place existed so here I am 🙂
I’m 43 years old been married for 26 years, we have 7 dogs and 2 horses. I was a Vet. Tech for 13 years and ended up so burnt out and depressed I finally quit. I now stay home and try and support my dogs and horses by selling my art work.
My business name is “The Green-Eyed Unicorn Studio”
I love that I am being given the chance to stay home and do my artthang 🙂 sometimes I do quite well money wise other times it’s a struggle I guess that’s the way it is for most artist’.
I’m glad to have been introduced to this forum.

Welcome to the forum!! Can you tell me a bit about why being a vet tech depressed you? I was thinking about making that my next career field. Im leaning more towards working at a stray facility, but I have a feeling the same things happen there.

Also, I would love to see pics of your horsies and pooches if you get a chance. There is a pet topic around here somewhere or you can just post them here. 🙂

[Maria]

Welcome! *scuttles off to look at artwork*

[BDW]

Welcome Shandi

[Marji]

Hey Shandi and welcome.
I love the picture of you and cowboy. I have a Tri-color Tennessee Walker. The first time I took him swimming I found out not all horses can!! Or maybe he just prefers walking on the bottom 😆 He still goes into water just fine though. I’ll have to tell you the full story sometime.
Your Art work is amazing. I look forward to seeing more of it

[lamortefille]

Aaahhh…so you are/were a KISS fan. I thought that as soon as I saw your name. 😉 How cool that Gene signed that picture and I love the jeans you painted. All of your artwork is wonderful. I love the boxes you did, too. 😀

[Patricia]

Welcome! I’m going to have to buy one of your pieces! I really like your Monarchred Flutterbye baby! How big are they?

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[Shandi]

lamortefille wrote:

Aaahhh…so you are/were a KISS fan. I thought that as soon as I saw your name. 😉 How cool that Gene signed that picture and I love the jeans you painted. All of your artwork is wonderful. I love the boxes you did, too. 😀

Yap been a KISS freak since I was 12 years old. I lived,breathed,ate,slept KISS. I spent so much money over the years on that JUNK. I still love them…. but I think when we moved her to the boonies and I took a huge paycut and so did hubby I kinda got a awake up call and realized that feeding my horse and the dogs and maintaing a old home was #1 priority.
I think I also grew up about 4 years ago. I still have most of my collection I’m discovering that most of it isn’t worth 5% of what I paid for it. I have most of it stored in thier origanal boxes and the posters put away in tubes and 60+ framed pictures packed away. I’m keeping some of it that’s really special but most of it really is JUNK.
It was fun, I won alot of costume contests dressed as GENE SIMMONS.
Now if I had only spent all that money on Windstone products at least they would have retained thier value!

[Shandi]

[Welcome to the forum!! Can you tell me a bit about why being a vet tech depressed you? I was thinking about making that my next career field. Im leaning more towards working at a stray facility, but I have a feeling the same things happen there.

Also, I would love to see pics of your horsies and pooches if you get a chance. There is a pet topic around here somewhere or you can just post them here. 🙂

It seems to me that what really finally got me about working as a vet tech is the way people look at dogs and cat’s as disposable. For instance. Little dog attacked by big dog. Drunk rednecks poured everclear down the little dogs throat and held it down on the kitchen table and sewed it up with sewing thread. Two days later the wife brings this little thing with a massive infection and the skin and tissure rotting off and full of maggots. Vet didn’t turn them in. The dog dies in severe pain and agony. They didn’t put it to sleep they let it lay in the cage till it died.
too often the Vets are suffering from burn out and they start not caring. I just got sick of seeing healthy animals euthanized for very petty reasons. It’s just too much trouble to house break him. That cat keeps peeing on the carpet. Where I worked they where putting these animals to sleep. One lady brought in a full blooded german shepard a year old wanted him put to sleep because he jumps the fence and goes into the garage where my husband doesn’t want him.
I think my biggest problem is that I care to much. I hurt when they hurt, I died a little bit everytime I had to be the one to do the deed. Sometimes Euthanasia is a god send, ends thier pain,eases thier passing. That I can accept.
My problem is I’m a empath. You hurt I hurt. Your angry I’m angry. I’d come from work and cry and hide from the world. I’d cry in my fur kids necks and tell them I loved them.
I have 7 dogs all of them huge and all of them rescues. I have a 12 year old big hairy dog named Shadow, Shadow’s mom was is in her 70’s she came to the clinic on her daughters orders to put her dog to sleep that she felt her mother was too old to be taking care of him. Didn’t seem important that Shadow was her reason for getting out of bed and walking and brushing him and taking care of him. There she sat crying and telling him how she didn’t want to do this.
I took her hands and told he could come live with me….for the first time in my life I heard God loud and clear. “Do the Right Thing” didn’t matter we had 5 dogs at the time. Shadow came to live with us and here he is two years later 40 lbs lighter and happy. He’s old arthritic but he loves me. He follows me from room to room. The first couple of days he was here you could tell he was confused but he figured out the dog door in one day and the next he had checked out the whole property and the third he got himself in the horse trough and barked and barked wagging his tail till we had to help him out. He seemed so proud of himself.
I am proud to have him and proud to know his mom and she always sends us cards checking on him.
Sorry for the long post.
I’m very passionate about animals. They can’t talk we have to be the one’s to stand up and speak for them.
So many unwanted pets disposed of when they become a inconvience….it’s just sad and so wrong.

[Skigod377]

I feel you there. I hate looking in the paper and seeing “PCSing. Must sell” Or PCSing! Free to good home!” (PCS=Permanent Change of Station, IE: Moving)
Its like…. uh.. you knew you would be moving in three years. Its not a surprise… why the hell did you even get a dog? I do love the way Germans are in that respect. Here they wont put an animal down unless they feel its appropriate. They can even get a little toooo protective. One lady has to go to court cuz she leaves her dog at home (Not in a kennel or anything, just at home alone) while she is at work and her neighbors reported her. They said it was cruelty. Geez.. if they only knew how cruel some people were. I still hope to work in a stray facility. I am just hoping I can make a difference or at least make the animals last days more pleasant.

[Maripikka]

Welcome to the freak show! In every episode there’s something new! 8)

[darjeb]

WELCOME from the Sunshine State

Just remember Windstones are addictive

[lamortefille]

Shandi wrote:

lamortefille wrote:

Aaahhh…so you are/were a KISS fan. I thought that as soon as I saw your name. 😉 How cool that Gene signed that picture and I love the jeans you painted. All of your artwork is wonderful. I love the boxes you did, too. 😀

Yap been a KISS freak since I was 12 years old. I lived,breathed,ate,slept KISS. I spent so much money over the years on that JUNK. I still love them…. but I think when we moved her to the boonies and I took a huge paycut and so did hubby I kinda got a awake up call and realized that feeding my horse and the dogs and maintaing a old home was #1 priority.
I think I also grew up about 4 years ago. I still have most of my collection I’m discovering that most of it isn’t worth 5% of what I paid for it. I have most of it stored in thier origanal boxes and the posters put away in tubes and 60+ framed pictures packed away. I’m keeping some of it that’s really special but most of it really is JUNK.
It was fun, I won alot of costume contests dressed as GENE SIMMONS.
Now if I had only spent all that money on Windstone products at least they would have retained thier value!

That’s a shame that your collection doesn’t have much value:-/ At least you had fun collecting it. I have a box of KISS “junk” myself. It’s just childhood memories that I won’t part with…magazine clippings, a couple of the dolls, etc….nothing of value, except to me. 😉

[Lokie]

Welcome! I’m so glad you were able to extend Shadow’s stay on this Earth. My heart breaks a little when I hear about how aweful people treat animals. 🙁 My pets enrich my life.

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