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Emma Zen's Network ?!.

So I heard Oprah is starting her OWN network and there was plug on TV about casting your idea for your "own" show. Well, no one asked me and I, I have an idea. It may not be grand and spectacular. It may or may not be film interesting. But it is the grandest of all ideas! It is an idea that can change your being, an idea that can change your life, ideas that are contaigous and effects the daily well-being of others. An idea that is a do-able action. There's the word, I propose ACTION.

There are NO excuses, no reason for delay, no reason for lack of effort, no reason to not try. I am one of the worlds laziest dogs and I have accomplished so much. If I can do it, so can you!

Oprah has become a peak of this industry, of my idea. She has the means to make a difference on such a grand scale that sometimes I think humans would rather sit and watch then try to do something that would pale in comparison. But collectively we are a much bigger wave.

So for this New Year 2011 I am asking all we know to "Do Something". To "Take Action". You maybe one of those people with influence? More power to you. You may think you have nothing to offer? SMILE! (Those are extremely contaigous!) Let the elderly in your neighborh talk to you for a minute instead of rushing by them. "DO" the smallest action!!! Help. Lend a hand. Be patient. Listen. Sit on someone's lap! People seem to love it when I do that one!

You may be young and think it all about you and that this doesn't apply? Are you kidding? Youth makes up such scale of humanity, you are an ocean! You may know or feel exactly what I am talking about. If so then you know you can make a difference, so just do it. NO EXCUSES, it is so EZ! to do!!

"I would like more average people to know they can make a difference."


Emma Zen

Be there

Sometimes the best thing in life you can do is just be there.

You don't always have to something.

I have heard humans say things like: I didn't know what to do. I couldn't' be of help. I felt useless. They didn't care that I was trying. I wasn't doing any good. Everything I did was wrong. I was just in the way.

Seems humans aren't to comfortable being, well uncomfortable.

As a dog I am often in this positions. Times when you as a human need helping hand or a pat on the back. Or simple direction. Or just a hug. Times when a "it will be okay" would do and guess what I do...? NOTHING.!

I do nothing and I am one of the best comforts a human can have!

So you either figure out how that is or you just accept that it is and do the best thing that you can, which sometimes is nothing!!!

Just be there!

Emma Zen

When my job is done... A nighttime story.

Most nights I go to bed with my humans. All three of us and even the cat crowding a king size mattress. Some point early morning I arise and sneak off to my own bed. A dog bed fit for a king, covered in a fuzzy blanket with a small white pillow for my head and laced with all my favorite night time toys. It occasionally smells like biscuits as I have been known to eat a night time snack or two upon it.

My humans might think: she really loves her bed. Because we fall asleep with her at our feet and awake most mornings to find her fast asleep in her big dog bed. Little do they know: my job was done.

As a canine I have intuition. I know when they are safe. I know when it is okay for me to leave them and retreat to my own oasis. They are the ones who take me to bed, it is not us dog that simple follow you into the sack. We truly are not that simple. We have purpose! And when the night as fallen our instincts to keep you safe, comfortable, adjusted is well something bed time stories are made of!

So how do you relax? How do you unwind? What gives you that sigh of relieve that allows you to drift asleep?

Is it a warm blanket? A cold sheet? The feel of a partner next to you? Is it a body position? An extra pillow? The familiar sound of your own yard? Does a clock tick in the back round? Does the wind chime ring softly in the distances? What makes you sigh that sound of the days relief and allows you to drift asleep?

Me, I think.. it's the dog!

Email from Michigan

A note from my human:

Today I received this email.

Today my husband and I were driving down the 90 frwy near Rapid City when we passed a dog on a motorcycle. Later that afternoon we were talking about at a restaurant in town when the waiter said, "You saw Emma!" she eats here too. He gave us your postcard and that is how we found your delightful website.

What I want to sure with you are our observations from when we first saw you.
The dog was rubbing it's head vigorously on the front of the bucket she was sitting in and pushed some glasses off her face. My husband said, "watch her smack that dog now." The lady on the back reached over and took the glasses off even more. Then wiped the dogs eyes and next took the heal of her hand and gave the dog a good eye rubbing! She put the glasses back over the dogs eyes and then... kissed the dog on the nose!

All this love and care at 60 MPH.

I have a lot I could say about what I saw though I will end with just one statement, "it was beautiful".

Marcie from Michigan



I can't believe the kind of emails I have received about Emma since we have been on vacation. The number of people she touches and the time they take to express themselves to us. It is just amazing how many people her life touches. If this is the by-product of loving your dog as much as I do and from taking them everywhere with you, even on vacation. Then I will never leave home without my dog...

Oh yeah I never do. :-)

First Five?

My Mom would like to take credit for this thought, though actually the question came out of my Dad. He is watching a show about an undercover operation in Pet Land Pet Stores. People, go to Animal Planet and see this show or educate yourself. So that first we can act different, then make better choices and then make a difference. The program is shocking. http://animal.discovery.com/tv-schedules/special.html?paid=15.15976.129051.0.0

But in the middle of it he said, "Do you know how a child's personality they say is form in the first five years. Do you think that is true for dogs?"

Could this be the reason so many "pure breeds" from some pet stores and breeders are so spastic or sickly?

Give us your input. Conversation starts awareness.

PLEASE SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL ANIMAL SHELTER!!!

Signed, Emma Zen the Shelter Survivor!

I am...

This evening I chased a rabbit behind a barn under a rainbow.

I am dog!

It happened so fast

One day I was a pet. One day I belonged to the world. One day I was me. One day I was famous. One day I was a dog. One day I was an actor. One day I was a family member. One day I was a model. One day I was young. One day I was older. One day...

Whatever your day brings may you enjoy it... It is but a page in your own book!!!