My first internet message board experience was on the Xena nutforum. That was a very fitting name for it too. Boy was that place a hoot. I made several really close friends there, but got majorily burned by someone too. The behind the scenes of that place would make for a great TV Movie of the Week. Makes Pettalk look like a Disney Movie in comparison.

Anyway, sometime after Xena, I got very dog obsessed. I really needed an outlet for that, because I was driving my friends and family nutz. I stumbled on Pettalk through a yahoo search that landed me on Dog of the Day. I think I may have lurked like all of a day or two, before I decided to start posting. Seemed like a very friendly and inviting place.

I don't think I quite use the place the same as most. I really don't reach out to make any close friends, which I have no doubt is due to the Xena experience, but I really wanted a place to release all my dog talk. Truthfully, nobody could respond to me and I'd probably still go on chattering away to myself about Oz did this or Gully did that or something Murph did. Not that I'm suggesting that anybody do that, of course, because I do enjoy people talking to me. This is definitely a very cathartic place for me, being able to write out my thoughts on the 3 most special beings in my life and there's not enough thanks in the world for how much the outpouring of sentiments towards Maddie when she died, meant to me.

Pretty great place to hang out and I don't see my chattering stopping anytime soon.

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