Friday Coffee and Chat -- 19th September 2025

@Shaz51 @Former-Member @RebelliousAngel @avant-garde @Ru-bee

No tto drag this fur baby thing out at all friends🤣 but i will share the best part of Zeus with you. (i hope the mods do not mind me telling you this.)

For me, Zeus turned out to be real life therapy for me!

For when he was 4 months old, and i was playing with him, he growled for the first time. Now i had been struggling with aggressive feelings all that night, it gave me a little fright at the time and before i knew it, i growled back at him, a really menacing grow it was too!😡 However Zeus loved me doing that, and roared back his own already vastly improved on his first growl back at me. And so i learned, all playing wise, to be in an aggressive mood without feeling guilty, ashamed, and bad about myself.

i'm crying just telling you this, but it was awesome to be able to growl my worst aggressive feelings, and be loved for it instead of feared and hated - by myself the most!

And so i learned to be aggressive, without loosing control, or feeling bad about who i was, when aggressive. Over the months that followed all my stored up anger evaporated, simply playing with my dog. At times many times a day, for i just let it go when i realised how good it felt to release my often uncontrollable inner tensions, through our growling game. Until in the end my 'raging alter' united with the rest of myself, and i could begin to accept myself in my formerly raging self as myself for the first times in my life. i have never raged again since then, though Zeus and me still love to growl. Isn't that amazing?

The only negative?

When Zeus wants attention for people he growls his worst growls, and everyone (strange) is scared of him thinking he is going to devour them, while all he is trying to do is calling them to come and growl with him. For he loves growling together that very best!

True story of me and my dog.

@RebelliousAngel

Appointment over and got here for the last bit of my art group

Infection not completely gone but no more drops because it's not a long term solution

New appointment in 4 weeks and made doctors appointment for next week so he can be less brash and give me straight answers

Thank you for sharing your story @DownMoreThanUp 🥰

Ya the appointment finished @avant-garde , anything planned for the afternoon

@Ru-bee , @Former-Member , @RebelliousAngel. @ENKELI

@Shaz51

Grocery shopping after this

The doctor was a bit clueless

She asked me why I have hearing aids

Uh I have hearing loss and they help

But why do you have hearing loss

She made me feel so small

Wow really @avant-garde

I have one hearing aid as I am totally deaf in one ear

Hello @rav3n @GezzaP

@avant-garde so glad the appointment is over and done with and that there's no more ear drops.

Hope the doctors appointment gives you some straight answers and that the infection clears up fully soon.

I'm sorry that she made you feel small you shouldn't have been made to feel that way. Is appointment in 4 weeks with same person?

How was the last bit of art group?

@DownMoreThanUp that's a beautiful story. We really can learn alot from animals 🩵

Hi @Shaz51 I have hearing aids but I hate them as they fall out and I can hear ok without them.

Hi everyone just passing though 😊☕️,

Awesome bottle brush @Shaz51 the butterfly is cool too!

@DownMoreThanUp I love your dogs they are so cute! What breed is shadow?

@Former-Member, nice pics of the birds in your tree are they rainbow lorikeets ?

Do the hearing aids help you sometimes @GezzaP 😊