SAINTS

For all those worried about my post regarding a mandatory volunteer meeting. Sorry I didn’t mean to be vague, was just waiting to choose an appropriate time.
Here are the details:
Saturday Feb 27th around 1230-1pm ish. Meeting will be around 20-30 minutes. (if there are many who can’t make it, we can try another date or perhaps have 2 dates)
Why I wrote mandatory for all volunteers? Word of mouth at SAINTS doesn’t always work, I’d like all volunteers to hear the exact same thing, from me. Even more senior volunteers need to attend, so all volunteers please rsvp.
If people like we can make a potluck out of it, if not it can just be a quick meeting.
What the meeting will entail?
All volunteers must sign a volunteer waiver.
New procedure for volunteers – all volunteer hours need to be tracked (this is valuable information when we are applying for grants). So there will be sign in/out sheets located in the MP room that all volunteers need to be aware of.
Explaination of certain things, ie dog walking rule.
Please RSVP as comments or email me at info@saintsrescue.ca
Please feel free to post any questions/comments aswell or email them to me.

We need to concentrate on saving Carol’s hair or she is going to be bald in 7 weeks.  And I wish I knew how to post pictures and then manipulate them so they are centered and the writing is centered.  

If you are long distant and would like to save carol from being bald please go to her paypal account and donate and leave a note saying for Carol’s hair so it is added to the total.

if i was completely honest, i would tell you that i don’t really care if someone brings up death row dogs and sells them for a profit. i don’t really care if someone lies their face off to make it seem angelic and clean, i don’t even care that much if a broker calls themselves rescue (ok, i do care about this a bit.)…but what do i really care about?

that some rescued LA deathrow dogs got dumped in shelters, either as unclaimed strays or family surrenders and no one ran to go get them. i would feel the same way if i heard that someone’s child was injured and taken to emergency room and the parents did not care enough to go there to help him/or her.
animals and children are vulnerable, they depend on us to make everything ok again.

i cannot forgive that no one cared enough to go and help them.

i think i could try to make money and try to get rich selling dogs (maybe not…but as a stretch..maybe i could)…but still i would make sure whoever i sold that dog to was a solid gold home and if i was wrong, i still would run over everyone in sight to get the dog back really quick.

i actually think that every single dog at saints is worth well over a million dollars. not because i want a million dollars..i just think they are worth that much at least.

and i will tell you something about senior dogs and why they don’t get homes very often.

as a society we weigh benefits against liabilities….

so lets say you see the cutest, most adorable old face staring at you thru the shelter wire. and oh my god, your heart just drops…what a beautiful old dog. (you are not really seeing his outer beauty because unless you really love them, old dogs really aren’t that physically beautiful….you are actually seeing his soul)

and then you start listing the liabilities…the reasons why that dog is going to stay where he/or she is…

his legs are bad and i have stairs…we just put in new carpets….i can’t really afford to pay an old dogs vet bills….he might die soon and that would really hurt me.
and in an instant that dog whose soul just rocked your heart became worth less than the weight of him in your arms, less than the price of your carpets, less than your mastercard bill…he is worth far less than your eventual tears.

and that is why i am so angry over that video…old dogs, young dogs, sick or healthy dogs are not worth less than anything at all. they are worth a whole entire life to them and they should be worth the same to you and me and especially to whoever brought them here and sold them for money.

at 14 years old, tyra is still an idiot. today she was counter surfing and ate a box of beef flavored cardiac meds….she had her stomach pumped this afternoon….oh yay tyra..i bet that was fun eh?

anyway…the reason i actually do love my dog so much is because tyra marches to her own drum. i used to try to make her march to mine…three years of dog obedience, fully off leash and hand signal trained…and she hated every second of it ….not cuz i was mean…hey, i was progressive way back then, i was always the only one in the class who absolutely refused to use a choke chain.

but the reason she hated it is because…tyra does not like to be told what to do…she will comply because she is a very good dog..but there were other things that she would rather do that were way more fun. it took me three freaking years to figure out that the reason she hated obedience class was because it was utterly too stupid for her….she always was in the top of each class but only because i asked her to.
now if she could have joined a soccor team, she really would have enjoyed that A LOT!….sorry tyra…next life i will know better.
anywho…tyra is the epitome of self actualization….altho today she self actualized herself into puking her guts out and having charcol shoved down her throat.

other news….

colleen said that czar is still really missing sparkles.
kodi actually got kind of happy and perky when i came home for lunch today.
max and mandy’s blood work is back..mild to moderate kidney and liver disease. they are however cleared for their much needed dentals if i bring them in the night before to pump them up with IV fluids.

their surgery is booked for mid-next week.

new incoming and then we are full again. esther is an old and crippled shepherd cross coming from the spca. i feel bad that i only can take in one right now but kodi, max and mandy have taken up the spots that were free.

that is the news tonight, i feel somewhat icky..i am taking some gravol and going to bed so i can get thru my last shift tomorrow.