Good evening everyone!
Sorry it took so long to write this! We've been non-stop all day and night. From my mom working all day with phone systems sales, real estate later, and my career, she was totally exhausted and didn't let me type this until 11PM tonite when I asked her for access to her computer. Anyways, before we went to the Ronald Mac Donald Los Angeles Facility which is gorgeous and new and houses 40 families on a rotating basis, I had to have a "fitting" for my Count Dracula costume for all my Halloween gigs. Her friend Louise did a good job "squeezing my fat neck" a bit and extended some inches of velcro so my red bow tie and tux would look just perfect! Then, in a huff we rushed to drive down town LA. We got a bit lost and almost ended up on the freeway again going back home...when some kind people on the busy Vermont Blvd let us move over one lane before mommy almost panicked because she was heading towards a freeway ramp by accident.
Anyways, we made it safe and sound. It was my first visit and as mentioned the facility is clean and beautiful. We handled the situation very well for our first time with these kids. Of course, inside it is heart wrenching as they are small children and some were walking with totally hunched backs, one little girl was missing her hand, etc, etc. They were all very sweet and almost none of them spoke English. Of course, being a dog I spoke their language of love, but mommy tried Spanish with some (which worked a bit) and then realized a bunch were from Iraq and didn't understand a thing she said. At first they were scared of me, but she showed them my tricks I did for the peanut butter animal cookies. The one girl who was so reluctant, then laughed in glee and they all got on the ground and petted me alot and fed me the cookies. The told me they would miss me very much. We showed them my greeting cards and they laughed. One little boy took me for a walk and mommy was totally shocked as I am no longer a "momma's boy" and actually went easily with a stranger and the little boy pranced me around alot and got me working! We loved the children and their warmth and knew even with the language barrier that they felt our love and we felt theirs! They want us to come back, of course. We took loads of photos and even got invited to a major event in December where 200 people will come and the Christmas party will be catered. Last year it was from the Elegant Roosevelt HOtel so it should be lovely. I think I'll come back in a couple weeks. We always have to make a reservation as they post me on the calendar and "bill board" with a huge photo of me, the Angel Therapy Dog and make me feel welcome!
I came home to relax, but of course mommy had other plans. She has another new agent working on my behalf to be more agressive to get me into magazines with movie stars but also promote my cause of being a therapy dog. We spoke for over an hour with her, she is fabulous and has tremendous connections in the business and feels confident she'll get me on the "map to stardom"!! She pointed out many ways to do this including my greeting cards, my blog, of course and being associated with very famous stars that have integrity and their hearts are in the right place!
We were thrilled as she came to mommy's home and watched my TV show "Dog Tales" and will edit it and put it on a certain web site she has and on u-tube. What a busy day...as they say...a dogs day is never done!
I zoomed around the house like Beckham chasing after soccer balls at such high speed, the agent laughed incessantly and didn't realize how funny frenchies truly are. Then she saw me crash and burn 15 minutes later and saw that I'm a lover and lap dog at heart.
Well, mommy has signaled me to get off her computer so we can sleep. Again, what a great day and now off to dreamland!
xoxo
Rocky!
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