Author: sasysquatchgirl

Today I want to tell you a story of heartbreak and loss, and the capacity for the heart to love again. This post is dedicated to Maggie my beagle. You will always be my baby.

15 years ago I finally got my first doggo. She was the size of my hand, a rescue from from a farm in Vermont, my first thought was that she was the cutest thing I had ever laid eyes on. So tiny and all ears!

We never separated except for work and special outings. She went everywhere with me, if my dog wasn’t invited there was a chance I wasn’t coming. She was my baby and I wasn’t leaving her behind. There was nothing she didn’t roll with.

She loved everyone, except my best friend, but to be fair the family cat never liked him either. She loved my parents, she would follow my mother all over her house. My dad would walk her all over the neighborhood. She worshiped him. They always had doggie treats at the ready and completely spoiled her.

Then a couple years ago I lost both my mom and dad to the silent killer, septicemia. It was just Mags and me now. We went through everything together, laughter, tears. But Maggie was always there loving me up and keeping me going.

When she passed two years this week. My thought was I’m never ever going through this again. Never. You have to understand I was in the room for both my parents and my dogs very last breath. That will change a person. It changed me. I was done I just wanted to hide in the woods everyday and hide from life.

But then something magical happened, I was scrolling through IG watching all my animal videos and I saw a picture of this one little guy and something inside me warmed and I knew this dog may need me as much as I didn’t realize I needed him.

This is the original picture from his post. He was at a wonderful dog rescue called Vintage Pet that rescues elderly and disabled dogs in Rhode Island. His name was listed as Howard because he found abandoned, half starved and blind in a field called Howard Field.

He must have weights 3 pounds soaking wet and was in desperate need of love and I was needing to give some. I went over to meet Howard who was getting around great despite his has lack of vision. I scooped him up and knew we were going on wonderful adventures together. I brought him home and tried to help him best map out his new environment while simultaneously giving lots of kisses.

Our adventures ran into a snag when I realized Howard was terrified of the car. He cries and cries when he’s in it. Motion sickness? Fear of being abandoned again? There is no way to ever know how he got to that field or how abused he may have been before. The not knowing is sometimes worse than the knowing. I can only keep trying to power through this phase together with love and trust. I want Howard to enjoy every second of his life. He loves going for walks when we get where we are going so as long as he enjoys it, I’ll keep trying.

I can tell he’s never played with toys and he was afraid to give kisses. Crying a little while doing both maybe unsure he’s allowed too. It’s heartbreaking. But we have each other now and it’s all about learning what he likes and helping him with the things he is unsure of.

Awhile ago you couldn’t get me to have another pet but the heart just needs time to heal, it can always love again. This of course doesn’t just apply to animals. Your heart will eventually heal from its hurts, it’s okay if it changes you, or if you need a change too. Never say never, because there is a lot of dogs out there that need loving homes. Need you, and like me maybe you need them too.

If you’re thinking about adopting or donating to a charity that cares for last chance pups of the world I’m recommending Vintage Pet for all there hard work, love and dedication.

You can find them at:

https://www.vintagepetrescue.org/

“The footage is taken at some distance and shows what looks like an ape-like figure moving slowly between the trees. Given how difficult it is to make out any details of the creature however and with a distinct lack of information about the origins of the video the general consensus at the moment is that the footage is likely to be a hoax.

But whether you believe this figure caught on camera by hikers in the Canadian wilderness is actually the legendary Bigfoot, or just a man in an ape suit, is all a matter of opinion.

Either way the sighting of the figure, which appears covered in thick black hair and is seen lumbering across the mountain top, has sparked plenty of excitement among Bigfoot fans.

In the footage the figure walks from the trees into the open, pausing briefly before disappearing back into the trees.

It remains unclear exactly where the video was shot but it is believed to have been filmed on a trail near Mission, in British Columbia.”

From Newzserver.com

My gut says just another hiker. But you never know. What do you think?

So I thought we could have some fun together with another series, but in this one we’ll be checking out some of the bigfoot apps and websites out there. This first one is from the App Store. I should mention first that I have an iPhone so this app may or may not be available in google play, etc.

Okay, so this first app is the Bigfoot Search Club. When you open the app there is a menu and you can click sightings. In sightings you have the choice of clicking documented or undocumented.

From what I see documented mostly means whether or not the BFRO has it listed on their site as well. But here is one of the listed sightings from my area of the country.

“On Sunday May 4th 2008 on route 146 north bound on the right side shoulder of the Highway near where Massachusetts meet the Rhode Island border just before the exit for South Uxbridge and north Smithfield at exactly 7:02 pm with clear skies in Worcester County, Massachusetts. The area is densely wooded with a small pond in the location. The witness stated that he was driving Northbound on Interstate 146 somewhere in the early evening with his sister when off to the right near the wood line he could see something standing there that looked just like a Bigfoot creature. He said he couldn’t believe his eyes. He immediately slowed down the car to look into the wood line and the creature walked off into the wooded area. The man could only say that what he saw looked just like what they talk about a Bigfoot creature looking like. His sister said that she could only see what she thought was something that looked like a black creature walking into the woods. The man also said that it looked like a bear with black hair all over its body and light greyish hair covering its chest and walked on 2 legs easily. The man reported the incident to the authorities about what he had seen that night while driving on the Highway. A man and his sister were driving on the Highway when the man spotted what he believes to be a Bigfoot.

Now what I love about this app is it’s nice to see more reports from my search areas within the Blackstone Valley Heritage Corridor. I know they have been roaming around here , I have print casts, but unlike me, what the app doesn’t do is investigate any of the encounters. Now I can take the sighting and do some investigating because I know the area well, but I have no way to contact and interview the witness. And unfortunately in some cases the encounter stories seem extremely vague. I’m not saying they aren’t actual sightings, but the vagueness is troublesome and a red flag for me. This site could really be something if they were requiring more details or investigating them themselves.

I tried to find out more about the creators, the developer listed is Bigfoot on the Strip LLC. When trying to find the owners of that company I only came up with an amusement park of the same name or description. If you have any more information on the developers shoot me an email and I’ll at it to the post.

Apps and Websites are popping up all the time and there are also quite a few websites where you can enter your encounter anonymously or otherwise and if no one is investigating the sightings we won’t know if all the information is really true, but it’s the risk you take creating these types of sites and visiting them as well.

Happy Squatching everyone!

Good morning and happy Sunday …for most of us our weekend plans are to go out hiking or squatching….today I challenge you to stop and take a second while you’re out there to think about how truly wonderful it is to be able to do this.

We get fresh air, scenery, wildlife, maybe even evidence of a bigfoot all while making memories with some of our closest friends.
That is priceless, the relationships we’ve made because of our love ❤️ of bigfoot. Those people that you feel safe to be weird around and trust enough to go get potentially lost in the woods with, that what it’s all about, that’s the most important part.

Have an awesome Sunday and be safe out there.

The old soul walks besides us on our evolution trail

His spirit guides the way night and day

He’s lived beside us since the first

He keeps us on our fated path

He will walk till he guides the last

Humanity will take its final bow

And another’s seeds will grow

They are the future

We are the past

Our species was never meant to last

But it came to a premature end

We strayed earlier to the path of ruin

The gods knew It was time

So when the dawn comes and we are no more, no one left behind

We must go through the next door

The tides will rise and wash us all away

So we cannot do this again someday

We mustn’t leave a trace

No reminders of the extinction machine…

The human race

But he will stay on, as he’s always done

To guide the next species along…”