Back In (Front and Sides In Too)

Where have I been? Oh, lots of places - north, south and west, a bit east at times. Busy and then some. But who can ignore the FACT that tomorrow launches ADOPT A SHELTER PET month? It's true. Get out there, get a head start, get the love of your life now.

That being said, I must add that there are some critics of a blog entry and the attempt at posting a comment is not wasted because I do have it as do the authorities. Nice try but really, FACTS reign. The TRUTH stands as it is. PROVEN. OK, back to something worthwhile: positive living and doing good for others, outreach, soul-searching, helping out...Life is too short to mess with what God's going to take care of anyway.

Our dog Tripp, the lab/retriever/whatever, still has his spasms but I looked up Canine Stress Syndrome again and read that feeding triggers spasms but if meals are smaller and provided more frequently the blood glucose levels are more even and that helps. INDEED IT DOES. He's been on 4 small meals a day and went from a spasm every other day last month to only 3 this month and just one of those was strong. We are pleased, to say the least. Sometimes it pays to do some research on your own - be responsible for your pets' well being!

Now I want to bring up a sad topic. I wouldn't except that I saw a posting on FACEBOOK about a strongly handsome pit bull who was being transported and was actually stolen by the transporters. Add to that a conversation some of us who do volunteer transporting were having a couple of weeks ago and I am feeling mentioning this is important. Apparently there are some people who are paid to transport (all groups need more volunteers) and it has been reported that there have been incidents of them being paid, leaving with the animals, taking them to some remote location, and dumping them. They have money, didn't give up time, didn't put miles on their cars, and did not save wonderful, screened, adoptable pets. How sad this is. It's bad enough that animals go through so much sometimes and then something good happens - they get accepted by a no-kill facility or a rescue. Suddenly they are tossed out, scared, lost, helpless.

Let's do more. Volunteer to drive! Feel the gratitude when you get a friendly lick or look or "hug" from a critter. They know. I'm not the only person who recognizes the appreciation a rescued pet expresses. Be a helper. Don't turn your back on deserving critters, expecting someone else will do it. Don't worry about getting paid money - your reward will be much more than that. For us, it's Saturday mornings...not much of a sacrifice; give continued life to the group on transport. Other groups do transports during the week or later in during the weekend. Google, Bing, Yahoo, search for them. Get involved!