SANDI, PETSBURGH LIAISON,
AND MY FUR PALS
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In late August, 1999, I will celebrate two years as a Community Leader. During this time, I have served on a wide variety of committees, including...
The Heartland Pet Gazette, Editor
Critique & Review Committee
Heartland Select- Co Chair
Krafts Korner
Mentor
When Petsburgh opened in September of 1998, I was invited to become their Liaison for Committees, Projects and Editorials. The neighborhood was not even "open" to the public when we set up some of the committees plus our own homepages and the Petsburgh Station. I had moved the Heartland Pet Gazette from Plains to Pointe and I moved it again to Petsburgh where it became the Petsburgh Post.
Our page in Heartland is called Pekehaven and it was too big and established to move so Peke Avenue was created in Petsburgh to spotlight our spoiled pet Pekingese! I also have a site in Yosemite, where I manage the DixieLand Pet Awards and a site in RainForest devoted to wolves,etc. I created the DixieLand Pet Awards after requests from website owners in areas other than Geocities. The Heartland Pet Awards is for Geo/Yahoo sites and has been at Pekehaven for a long time now.
In Petsburgh, I finally gave up my "baby" ... the Petsburgh Post and it is now chaired by SuSue, although I stayed on as the Editor for Boomer's Bytes!! I am Co-Chair of the World Festival, serve on Pet Site of the Week, Pet Site of the Month, Blue Ribbon Pet Awards, the Petsburgh Party and the Petsburgh Gazette. I am still a Mentor and I count some of Petsburgh's most active CL's as my former trainees! I have been really lucky with trainees.. only one asked me how much it paid and then left (LOL) and only a couple quit during training and that was back in Heartland. My trainees have been eager, intelligent, talented, dedicated and have done fantastic, which I had nothing to do with, but it is a great source of pride for me that they are "MINE!"
When age is discussed, I slither off into the corner and hide but suffice to say, I am old enough to really be the "Mom" to most of our CL's. I have two grown children and two beautiful granddaughters, who live in the state of Washington. My husband, Larry and I have been married almost ten years and our "kids" all have fur or feathers!! He and I dated when we were 15 then lost touch for many years and met again after I was widowed. He did not care much for dogs when we met...we now have a houseful and he is as protective as me, if not more so. He has even learned to like cats!
All our Pekingese are pure bred but we did not like being "breeders" because we wanted to KEEP all the puppies so the females are all spayed. They range in age from Gizmo, age 10, to our newest, Patches, who is 2. Pekes are primarily inside dogs so we have a HOUSE OF HAIR and the vet loves us but they are worth it! We have added a cat, Sir Wally, a stray I found at work and we have three birds.. a Cockatiel, a Parakeet and a pet Cardinal (I also found at work, just a tiny baby, blown out of the nest during a thunderstorm). My daughter's guinea pig, Trudy, also resides with us.
I work full time evening shift at a Medical Center in the Call Center and have been there 20 years this October. It is a high stress job so I need the relaxation provided by my Internet activities (most of the time!)
We are both lifelong residents of Arkansas, although I have lived briefly in California, Alaska, North Dakota and Illinois. Larry was born here but spent most of his early years in Albequerque, New Mexico. I spent early years on a farm and have always been surrounded by animals, usually dogs. I have owned three Collies in the past so they are a favorite breed but we are too Peke-poor to have one now!
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And here is Sir Wally one of our newest additions!
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