I get so excited when someone posts an lj...
it isn't fair to take and not give back, right?
So, my life is pretty much consumed by the Humane Society and work - but I did take a pretty fantastic vacation. You know what? I really need the pictures to describe this and I haven't put them on my comp yet...hermph. I'll try again tonight. In the meantime I will show you my best friend...
Ernesto (aka Ernie)
Ernie and I just graduated Basic Obedience class and he knows all sorts of fun tricks :) No one wants to adopt him because he is a huge pit bull mix who is aggressively afraid of dogs. It's so sad because he is the sweetest happiest smartest dog ever - but even I couldn't adopt him because I want to have more than one dog and if I get a dog and I want to travel my mom would be my dog sitter and if Ernie went off on Lily, Lily would have a heart attack. There are a lot of sad things at the shelter. There are 10 year old dogs whose owners surrendered them because they were "too old" and there are puppies born from emaciated mothers who had been wandering the streets and no one bothered to spay them. There are dogs with health problems and no one wants to pay for their medication and there are dogs and cats being put down every day because no one bothered to socialize them or get them vaccinated. We don't euthanize for space, but if there was more space, some of the dogs might be able to be rehabilitated and worked with. If there was more money, some of the illnesses might be able to be treated. If we could get a new facility, a lot of lives would be saved. My friend Nina got put down while I was on vacation. She was a beautiful dog, but she was a pit bull with problems, and when pit bulls have problems no one is willing to get past it - and it just makes the whole breed look bad. I swear some of the pit bulls we have are gentler and more mellow than any golden retriever and I've seen children tugging on their ears and poking them and they just bask in the attention...
Anyway - there ARE a lot of sad things at the shelter, but in general - it's therapy. I teach a dog a trick, he learns it, we show off to the people looking for a dog and they swoon at how smart he is and maybe they adopt him, maybe not but he is soo happy for the attention. I see good dogs going from bad situations to great ones every day - even if once in a while the stories don't end so well - I really feel a part of something good. The great thing about Chico is, there is so much land! There are ranches and farms for these dogs to live on all over the place. And it's just fun. I just want to be around animals all the time, and I'm learning so much about dog behavior - it's really fascinating. Each dog has it's own personality, likes different things, gets along with different dogs, some like everyone, some are picky...
So that's what I do. My job with the kids is great too, but I've been doing that for...6 years? ish, now. I can't imagine ever working in an office or a restaurant...every day I play games, do art, run around, go outside, explore, pretend, build things...can't get better than that.
I have been very happy lately. I feel like the only thing holding me down right now is my health/weight...makes everything shittier. Well...yesterday was a new beginning of healthy eating/exercise and its goin' good so far! lol. Goin' to the gym tonight...I'm gunna find a good class, probably the stationary bike one - so I'm on a schedule. I left a 2 hour period in my schedule this semester 3 days a week for the gym. It's gunna be a good sememster :)
Fun stuff to come...
and I'll leave you with my friend Kia the Akita <3
So, my life is pretty much consumed by the Humane Society and work - but I did take a pretty fantastic vacation. You know what? I really need the pictures to describe this and I haven't put them on my comp yet...hermph. I'll try again tonight. In the meantime I will show you my best friend...
Ernesto (aka Ernie)
Ernie and I just graduated Basic Obedience class and he knows all sorts of fun tricks :) No one wants to adopt him because he is a huge pit bull mix who is aggressively afraid of dogs. It's so sad because he is the sweetest happiest smartest dog ever - but even I couldn't adopt him because I want to have more than one dog and if I get a dog and I want to travel my mom would be my dog sitter and if Ernie went off on Lily, Lily would have a heart attack. There are a lot of sad things at the shelter. There are 10 year old dogs whose owners surrendered them because they were "too old" and there are puppies born from emaciated mothers who had been wandering the streets and no one bothered to spay them. There are dogs with health problems and no one wants to pay for their medication and there are dogs and cats being put down every day because no one bothered to socialize them or get them vaccinated. We don't euthanize for space, but if there was more space, some of the dogs might be able to be rehabilitated and worked with. If there was more money, some of the illnesses might be able to be treated. If we could get a new facility, a lot of lives would be saved. My friend Nina got put down while I was on vacation. She was a beautiful dog, but she was a pit bull with problems, and when pit bulls have problems no one is willing to get past it - and it just makes the whole breed look bad. I swear some of the pit bulls we have are gentler and more mellow than any golden retriever and I've seen children tugging on their ears and poking them and they just bask in the attention...
Anyway - there ARE a lot of sad things at the shelter, but in general - it's therapy. I teach a dog a trick, he learns it, we show off to the people looking for a dog and they swoon at how smart he is and maybe they adopt him, maybe not but he is soo happy for the attention. I see good dogs going from bad situations to great ones every day - even if once in a while the stories don't end so well - I really feel a part of something good. The great thing about Chico is, there is so much land! There are ranches and farms for these dogs to live on all over the place. And it's just fun. I just want to be around animals all the time, and I'm learning so much about dog behavior - it's really fascinating. Each dog has it's own personality, likes different things, gets along with different dogs, some like everyone, some are picky...
So that's what I do. My job with the kids is great too, but I've been doing that for...6 years? ish, now. I can't imagine ever working in an office or a restaurant...every day I play games, do art, run around, go outside, explore, pretend, build things...can't get better than that.
I have been very happy lately. I feel like the only thing holding me down right now is my health/weight...makes everything shittier. Well...yesterday was a new beginning of healthy eating/exercise and its goin' good so far! lol. Goin' to the gym tonight...I'm gunna find a good class, probably the stationary bike one - so I'm on a schedule. I left a 2 hour period in my schedule this semester 3 days a week for the gym. It's gunna be a good sememster :)
Fun stuff to come...
and I'll leave you with my friend Kia the Akita <3
