Today we finished nice & early at the shelter since we had like SIX volunteers. (So awesome.)
So I took two little terriers that are caged up together, and then the fat girl named Tracy who needs exercise... To give you an idea, we thought she was pregnant. They asked the vet her due date, and he is like, uh, no, she's just obese... Anyway, we went to the DOG PARK!
There were only a few dogs there, and then everyone left, so we just played ball and then ran around and smelled things and peed on everything and then everyone just seemed to want to sit in my lap and/or have me rub their belly. Oh, and I happened to have baby soap in the truck, so they got baths too! And they were so good about it!
We spent over an hour there. When we went back to the shelter, I gave them chewies in the hopes that they wouldn't mind going back in the crate as much, but I had to literally PUSH the little guy.
Tonight I came home and put a big long ad up on Craigslist for them. It's just not fair for them to not have these great days all the time.
It was just so weird to see these shelter residents in my car, looking around, and in the expanse of the dog park. I could see them settling into a real life like that, and I hope so much that they get it.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"