Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

One Dog At A Time….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Four

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Have you seen the commercial (I think it’s for the Humane Society) of the sad little dogs and cats in cages, waiting for their forever homes, while the song “In The Arms Of An Angel” by Sarah McLaughlin plays in the background?  Wherever I am in the house, when I hear that song I scream, “Change the channel!”

It breaks my heart.  I cannot stand to see the pictures of their sweet little faces.  I picture them waiting, watching hopefully as people walk by their cages, only to be disappointed when they are passed over once again for someone younger or cuter.

Whenever I mention my desire to save animals to hubby he says, “You can’t save them all.” 

Deep down, I know he is right, but that doesn’t make me feel any better.  Which is one of the reasons I have a dream to one day have a sanctuary for animals.  Right now though it is still only a dream.  A dream I hope someday will come true.

In the meantime while I write and wait, I think about what I CAN do right now, to help.  I did of course rescue Delilah, and while I would love to rescue another dog it is not in the budget right now, besides we really have our hands full with that girl!

Love and A Leash had a beautiful post about an elderbull currently in foster;  Lady Zabora has some medical issues and Love is sponsoring a raffle to help raise money for her medical care. 

I read the post and had every intention of discussing with hubby and making my donation, then life got in my way and I totally forgot about it!  I was reminded by Rescued Insanity this morning, so without consulting hubby, I went right over and made my donation. 

No, I can’t save all of them, but I can try to help in any way I can to make sure as many as possible get another chance.  

Lady Zabora

 

 

Noteworthy Archive Blog Award….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Three

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Thanks to our friend Just Ramblin’

Somehow our dear friend over at Just Ramblin seems to think this little blog has “Noteworthy” Archives.  I’m really not sure exactly HOW she came to this conclusion, because I have read back through some of my older posts and found that 1) some of them were not that great and 2) I was all over the place for the first couple of months I started blogging!

 
It took me quite a while to find my “voice” and decide just exactly what my blog would be centered around.  
 
Once I did there were/are times I struggle just trying to assemble a sentence, nevermind write an entire blog!  (Today seems to be one of them, as this just isn’t coming out the way I intended!)
 
So Just Ramblin’ I thank you so much for taking the time to read back through some of my earlier posts, deem them noteworthy and creating and bestowing this award on us. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Good Bye Irene….Day Two Hundred, Seventy Two

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Well Irene is gone.  We did survive, with lots of downed leaves and some small branches, but no loss of trees and no loss of electricity.  We were very blessed because there are still over 400,000 without power in this state. 🙁

We had lots of rain and lots wind from about 5:30 am to 12:00 pm; the dogs never even thought of going outside.  They were quite content to lay around and enjoy a lazy day.  There was no way they were going out in that rain….unless we were hiking. 😉

It got very calm shortly after noon and I debated whether I should risk it and take them out for a walk.  I waited and waited; finally about 3:30 I said, “Let’s go.”  I called my walking buddy and we headed out.

The park had lots of leaves and small branches down as well.

Due to all the rain, their favorite ‘puddle’ was back, so they enjoyed a little romp through the water with their pal, Brady.

We wandered the woods for about 45 minutes and then headed home.

Sometime around 7:00 pm the wind came back; with a vengeance.   At one point it got so loud, the dogs tore outside to see what the commotion was.  I decided it was best not to sleep in our room again, so the dogs and I camped out in the spare room, while Hubby took the scrapbook room.

When we went for our walk today, we found a lot of fallen trees from the evening wind.

We went this way yesterday and these trees weren’t down then.

We didn’t mind, we were grateful to be out enjoying our favorite park, letting the sweet smell of nature wash away the storms of yesterday.

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