This is Fruitycake. Everyone needs to take a day off. Even me. You may wonder what a dog has to take a day off from. But our jobs never end. Especially when you’re an only child like me right now. It’s a lot of pressure.

I’ve heard that when you’re an only child, you get more toys. More attention. More pizza. Ok. Maybe that’s just me. But I’ve found that to be true lately.

But when you’re an only child, it’s also more pressure. More pressure to help your persons the best you can by making them smile. More pressure to help them with their sadness in missing Brickle. But the truth is, I’m going thru my own sadness.

When I was a stray dog in a city, I felt very alone. Even though I was in a place with a lot of noise and people. I still got lost. Then, my family found me. Brickle helped me. And I didn’t feel lost. Now that he’s gone, I have to think positive thoughts. Because if I let myself dwell on my sadness, I will feel like I did those years ago. I won’t be able to help my persons. And that’s my job right now. Just like Brickle and Digby had that job too.

Brickle tried to prepare me for this time. He did a good job. Because he always did a good job. He told me it would probably be one of the hardest times of my life. But he told me I could do it. He told me I would do a good job. And I will believe him. I will believe I can do it.

Some jobs have long assignments. I know this job js important. No matter how long it takes. When we help others, like I am helping my persons, we help ourselves. And when I think back about Brickle teaching me for this time, I hope he was helped by the peace that I would be here to carry on.

–Fruitycake

If you are still here with the 2 Traveling Dogs family, we want to thank you very much. Really, we can’t put into words how much we appreciate your kindness. Your generosity. Your love for our Brickle. You have kept us going thru some very dark days. And we are still working thru this grief. As you know, each day is different when your heart breaks for the ones you have loved and lost.

As we navigate the blog and our lives moving forward, we know the next month will be sort of a transition. We have the tile garden to build and we thank you for your patience. We are still slowly catching up on orders and book shipments. We sincerely apologize for the delay and will do our best moving forward.

We also will be pouring ourselves into our home renovation and hope you’ll join us as we make new videos every week. This is sort of a therapy to us. A way to honor Brickle and for this house to be HIS legacy.

We have a new Patreon channel where you can get a secret picture each day of something at our property and will have more special surprises ahead! We would love to have you be a member and you can join here!! It would help so much for us to get materials and produce our show for YOU.

Thank you for all that you are, 2 Traveling Dogs family. We read every message and email and comment. Expect to hear from us soon as we catch up.