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Betti Gefecht

@bettigefecht.bsky.social
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German. Recording artist, poet, singer, visual artist, writer (also book translator EN>DE). Survivor, back 2 life. She/her. Dog-,cat-,goat-mom. I like limericks. Don't chat me up 4 no reason. Pls be important. #vss365

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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
My 99th dog vss No prompt In 2023, Tim Shaddock, an Australian fella, took a sailboat and his dog. Got into a hellu- va storm. No radio, no food, no chance. 3 months later, he was found adrift in the Pacific, by coincidence. He had survived on rainwater, raw fish, and the love of his dog, Bella.
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
To put a Hawaiian shirt on a chihuahua (God…WHY?!) Listen, my friend; I'm not gonna lie. If it doesn't work, don't be ashamed. We're talking chihuahua here. You can't be blamed. Get the shirt, cross yourself, then prepare to die #vss365 #limerick #dogs 🐾 Tutorial: youtube.com/shorts/7L2gW...
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How to put a Hawaiian shirt on a chihuahua 😁
YouTube video by Manchas the Youtuber
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
I can't see it in your face. You look much too cute. But you're a wiener dog. You little shit are really shrewd and know exactly what to do to make me leave all my snacks to you. If in doubt, just bark. Or howl. Never be mute! #vss365 #linerick #dogs 🐾 🌭
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
To clip your dog's nails drama-free, try the cling- wrap-and-peanut-butter-on-your-head thing. While the scary tongues are clicking Your dog's just distractedly licking. You'll become the mani/pedi king #vss365 #limerick #dogs youtube.com/shorts/sTFvf...
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Woman Smears Peanut Butter on her Forehead to Distract her pet Dog While Cutting Their Nails
YouTube video by Jukin Media
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Stray dog passing by: "Sir, I beg your pardon. I need to poop and would like to use your garden.". Adding friendly-faced, "May I come and do the deed?" Resident human: "By no means. Not even on the weed." Threateningly, the stray dog's face began to harden. vss365 #lomerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
The year 1059, Laika in outer space. No retrieval. How could they? The mere thought causes great upheaval. in my gut. Thinking of the sweet pup, I want to hurl to this day, just imagining the poor girl. For me, it was and will always be an act of pure evil. #vss365 #DogLimerick #HistoricalDog 🚀 🐾
Romanian postage stamp of 1957 with the image of Laikg, and fog and the first living creature sent to outer space.
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
There was an egg in the kitchen, hard-boiled. For hours, our pug struggled and #toiled stealing it. Though we were not okay with this, he managed to lick it, so the egg was finally his. The heist could not be foiled. Our pug was much too spoiled. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
The Good Boy My beloved puppy, there's no disguising it. Your telltale look shows a powerful urge in you rising to steal the cake from the kitchen shelf. Poor thing, how can you even control yourself? But you do, good boy! Even without me supervising. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Paul, the husky, sings. Often and extremely loud. His favorite song? I think it's "Twist and Shout". And shout and twist he does, if you get my drift. He's rather vocally challenged and has the musical gift of an unpopular veg, like, an overcooked Brussels #sprout. #vss265 #limerick #dogs 🐾
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Pitbull lady Luna had a pretty dog smile. Also, she smelled vaguely willing and very #fertile. Poodle boy Bob flirted with her all summer. But she ignored all his advances. Bummer! She was vaguely repelled by Bob's very hairstyle. #vss365 #limerick #dogs 🐾
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I once dog-sat two dachshunds. It was #chaos. One was extremely < sassy and told me, "Hey, boss! I'm Willy, this here is Dave. If you want us to behave You better have treats to pay us." #vss365 #limericks #dogs 🐾
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
There’s a dog, named Buddy, whose humans went to leave
 and go partying on New Year’s Eve.
 So I got a dogsittinng job over night.
 On very short notice, but it was pure delight 
 for us both. No separation anxiety, no fireworks panic, no grief. #vss365 #limerick #dogs Happy New Year!
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Do dogs #dream? Oh yeah! They do. Of course!
 My dog wags, & he moves his legs when he snores. 
 I never know, is he hunting bunnies, like it is his habit? Or is he the hunted one, running from the big bad rabbit? Anyway, dogs dream wildly, yelping , yipping, shaking paws. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Looking back at my life like it was a travelogue, telling stories of restless journeys from dog to dog, about soul mates and #travel companons I will miss forever. What? No! I just chopped, uhm… onions. Or something. I'm NOT crying, ok? YOU are! You are one to talk! #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
A royal poodle knew how to #jump and dance with great sense of pomp 
 and circumstance. He performed most graceful tricks
 worth immortalizing in limericks.
 But grace him with a treat, and he’ll most ungracefully chomp. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
The neighbor’s dog, Cindy, was willing to elope
 with my dog, #Saturn, who after all then said, „Nope!“
 Of course, he had promised her Saturn’s ring,
LOL, meaning it to be some paw-sized bling-bling. oh well,
 until I let him look at it through a telescope. #xss365 I meant: #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The neighbor’s dog, Cindy, was willing to elope
 with my dog, #Saturn, who after all then said, „Nope!“
 Of course, he had promised her Saturn’s ring,
LOL, meaning it to be some paw-sized bling-bling. oh well,
 until I let him look at it through a telescope. #xss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
When life is rough & everything seems 2 crumble, there is 1 thing I never ever doubt- it makes me feel #humble; the unconditional love & sincerity of my pup –
of ANY pup really – it always lifts me up.
 No matter what, dogs celebrate life with U, always ready 2 rumble. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
The greatest moment our Maker had
 during creation, was a fluke, I bet.
 While aiming at adding just more small cogs in the big wheel, he accidentally made DOGS,
 the most perfect beings ever. No #regret! #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I cared for many dogs in my life, some small,
 some big, and as far as I can #recall,
 most of them were rejects, too sick or too old, and had opted out, not knowing anymore how to dog. I adopted 
 those anyway. They were wonderful and loved me most of all. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
1 day I came home 2 growling & nagging
 instead of joy. The situation was hostile & seriously lagging any joy. As if my dog had lost all #memory of ever bidding
 me a happy welcome. Suddenly the pup barked, „ Just kidding!“ Giggles followed, plus the usual dancing & wagging. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
My neighbor’s frenchie liked to pretend that he
 was a Parisian lap dog in the 19th century.
 Helped himself to snacks. But on whose say-so?
 The pooch had no regrets, just claimed it was the #boho
 way of life, and that treats always were complimentary. #vss365 #limericks #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Because of my disability I won’t
 be able to care for another dog ever, so I don’t.
 I cannot leave the house anymore autonomously.
 But hadn’t known how #monotonous it'd be
 without a dog. A fate I, for the dogs’ sake, mutely condoned. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Since I was a kid, I was reaching for at least a fraction
 of happiness in my life, of satisfaction.
 Then I felt it finally reached its #apogee
 when I took in the first resue pup to live with me,
 triggering a „serial dog rescuer“-chain reaction. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
My first dog, Mexx, a giant schnautzer, never shied
 away from a challenge or any fight
 with other dogs, though never being the aggressor.
 A different story was pooch Bobo, his #successor:
 All cocky but coward. All bark but no bite. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Their bed time story. My dogs wouldn’t miss it.
 Most of all they loved the #illicit
 tales about taking the couch with muddy feet,
 or, not doing the trick but taking the treat. They loved the stories to be most explicit. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Isobel_Starling @isobelstarling.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Stuff the year-end retrospectives Your 'best of 2025s' Admit It's been an terrible year With one #consolation YOU SURVIVED Stuff the 'best of' lists Yeet them at the sun If you created anything In these horrible times At life YOU WON! #Vss365 #poem
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
@jangoeswriting.bsky.social Have I ever properly said Thank You for all the reposts you made of my imericks? No? Shit! They've been a true gift, you know, cuz I feel seen. So Thank you, Jan, even though I'm late. 😊
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
At the shelter to donate food or toys, my fingers itched to adopt. The old dogs, the unwanted. As if bewitched,
 I never could resist
 those seniors, well, you get the gist.
 All the loyal souls who couldn’t fathom why they’d been ditched. #vss365 #Limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Once I had puppies, a bunch of 10, U see,
 1 was my old dog’s (the father) mini-me.
 This lil 1 kind of only lived on probation.
 Got sick & died, 3 months old. No #consolation
 4 me. Played „Nothing Lasts 4 Long“ by Joni
 Mitchell on rotation,
 crying. A salvation. #vss365 #ExtendedLimerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
My chihuahua didn’t see the futility
 of performing an entire symphony
 all by himself each time I left
 the house without him. He felt bereft,
 I know. But loud laments were useless, just a #soliloquy. #vss365 #limerick #dogs See Snappy, the clingy pup in question :
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
A vision-impaired chef. One day by accidant a
 little beetroot sneaked in and turned he whole meal #magenta.
 In despair, he drank a few bottles of red wine
 before feeding everything to the canine. The pooch practically inhaled the pink polenta. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Crinkling noises from the kitchen are often an augury, for dogs, promiising a yummy discovery, like a paper bag of treats, or some likewise good
 soon to be offered puppy food,
 or even human snacks to be shared, maybe. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Look at my granddog, the little dandy
 and his cute bowtie that came in handy
 when, resting on a small pillow’s bedding,
 was the ring he carried at his humans’ wedding.
 Being #chic, even overdressed, was his modus operandi. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I'm a nocturnal human. My cat thinks that’s just fine.
 My dogs find it disturbing but still… toeing the line,
 at dusk, they wake from a nap, then they go for
 walkies, then hop the couch to watch a show or
 just cuddle, being doggishly #vespertine. #vss365 #limerick #dogs Cat joins in after nine.
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
I raised a little crow, and when it was time to set her free,
 she stayed with me, willingly, not in captivity.
 I feared for her because of my other pets
 sleeping in the house as well, dogs and cats.
 But they were protective and sweet, the epitome of #chivalry. #vss365 #limerick #pets
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
The depth of a dog’s #aphotic
 gullet is beyond me. It’s a chaotic
 Bermuda Triangle for all kinds of food:
 If I leave some on the table? It will be gone for good.
 Just part of our relationship, so lovingly symbiotic. #vss365 #limerick #dogs My bestest boys (great gullet capacity):
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Carpet-cuddling a BIG dog, full of love,
 be aware of sloppy, sudden kisses from above.
 My giant schnauzer, Mexx, was awe- inspiring, just raising his ginormous paw
 to give high fives. So #suave! #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
I adopted a senior dog, gray, deaf, half-blind, with a sad past.
 So he could have a home & feel loved at #last.
 The 13-year-old learned a lot, like ASL & fetching sticks.
 Yes, old dogs *CAN* be taught new tricks!
 His final years, the lil affenpinscher had a blast… #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
MY GOOD BOYS My good boys Bobo – a mix of different setters – and Snappy – a chihuahua – were love bugs, not attackers. Not even the same breed, but brothers from totally different mothers. Not really family. So what? As if that even #mätters #yss365 #limerick #dogs Bobo & Snappy:
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Chronic illness can befall you in stealth
 mode first, then it’ll get worse and worse with your #health.
 A chihuahua is not much of an assistance dog, but still sort
 of perfect for emotional support.
 A chihuahua brings love and happiness, the greatest kind of wealth. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
close-up of cute chihuahua face
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charlyannd @charlyannd.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
#Ididn'twritethis it's friggin A.I it's #wild this bullshit #menaced am I I #estimate soon imagination will die this #whirlwind of technology #challenges mental #health #zigzags our neurology creativity is our wealth #Fromoneline #2wordprompt #emoetry #Whistpr #inkmine #vss365 #WIPSnips
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
German Shepherd dogs never stop #learning. they never stop being eager, never stop turning a new page every day. Like the eternal child, they never stop being wild. They're incredibly lovely tho. Or it would be quite concerning. #vss365 #limerick #dogs
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
I think I’m ready to contrive
 a book with my dog limericks from this here #vss365.
 Look back through my posts, at the lastest #reflection
 and the beginning of the collection.
 All stories of real dogs that are, or were, part of my life. #vss365 #limerick #dogs 🐕 🐕 🐕
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
There was a dog, named „Elephant“
 in the room, so eloquent, he could say „Wow“, „Awoo“, and „Rruff“
 as well as a lot of other stuff,
 but wouldn’t. He just didn't think it #relevant. #vss365 #Limerick #pets
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
By all means, the fetch in question was #achievable.
 But Larry the Golden declared it irretrievable.
 Being a slacker instead of an eager beaver,
 they demoted him to Silver Retriever
 and denied him his treats. Unbelievable! #vss365 #Limerick #LessonForPups 🐕
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
No toys or treats, just a well timed #measure
 of belly rubs gave my dog unspeacable pleasure.
 When I would say, „OK. Now it’s enough!“
 He’d plead, „Pleeeease more…. just ’til your arm falls off…“
 Me: „Sure. As you wish, my Lord, my love, my ireasure!“ #vss365 #Limerick #Pets 🐕 #Isobel💗Influence
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Dogs were sick & tired of being fed a fraction
 of a treat & being told it’s a whole and an intact one.
 They felt it was an insult of their intelligence,
 a betrayal of trust & an overall offence.
 So finally, it was pups vs. humans in a class #action. #vss365 #Limerick #UnknownHistory 😆 🐕 🐕 🐕 🐕
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Ever since his adoption,
 Max the wiener rode shotgun
 in his human’s car, 
 always and everywhere, near or far.
 Was there even another #option? #vss365 #limerick #pets
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Betti Gefecht @bettigefecht.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Belle was an abandoned dog. She
 talked at nicht to her favourite flea.
 Living on the street, all alone, no home, no human of her own,
 she’d lost touch with #reality. #vss365 #limerick #alwaysaboutdogs #Icanthelpit 🐕
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