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I can’t stop myself when these little eyes look up at me. Every one of them is a rescue dog, so they take this very seriously.
Our rescue group is taking part in the Macy’s Shop for a Cause Charity Challenge. I’ve created a team that you can find [link redacted because fundraiser has ended]. If you have five bucks, ten, any amount at all you can donate, please do. And if you can’t, feel free to share my link.
Thank you!
Michelson Found Animals Saving Pets Challenge raised more than 1.5 million dollars in their 2017 campaign. That means a LOT of people care about companion animals!
I’m thrilled to share that our rescue was the leading fundraiser with $146,978 in donations. That means the group will be awarded the grand prize of an additional $50,000. A lot of great people contributed, including those who donated to Tim’s and my teams. I’m so grateful to you all, and I’m slowly fulfilling my pledge to name animals in your honor or to persuade the rescue’s dog and cat scribes to include you in their Pet Prose.
Spay and neuter, TNR, transport, and adoption are making a positive difference!
Thanks to Jeffrey Ricker bringing this to my attention, I’ve been participating in an Instagram challenge hashtagged #riotgrams. It’s part of Book Riot, something that is slowly enticing me to think about writing when my brain takes a break from dog rescue. These are the challenges this month:
And today’s was fun for me, because not only did I get to show off the Janet Evanovich Stephanie Plum hardcovers that I co-own with Timothy, but I got to show off a couple of other things, too, reminding me that I have another life that waits for when I will make some time and give it some attention.
Anime recently visited her vet for some followup bloodwork. The results show that the shots she’s getting to manage her Addison’s disease are exactly the dosage she needs. She’s in great spirits, loves to play and explore, and we’re happy every day that she was diagnosed quickly and bounced back to being the dog we know and love. She’s a good soul.
Here’s more information about Addison’s.
I have my own fundraising team [link redacted because fundraiser has ended] for our rescue’s Michelson Found Animals Saving Pets Challenge 2017.
If you’ve been following Pet Prose, you know that many of our group’s rescued dogs and cats have been sharing excerpts from their writing on my blog. If you contribute to my team, a future author will include you as a character in their work! You’ve always been quite a character–now everyone will know it.
Or if you prefer, I can name one of our rescued dogs after you or the name of your choice (names should be ten letters or less and G rated).
Have a little fun, give a little money (NO AMOUNT IS TOO SMALL and you can opt out of paying the CrowdRise fee), and help us save more dogs and cats! (And also keep me from having zero fundraising dollars.)
I thank you and so does Gerald, pictured above. He’s safe and ready to travel next week to his new home because of the kindness of folks like you.
I mean, seriously, y’all, this happened at the Houston Rockets game.
I didn’t get to go, and this isn’t my photo–I snagged it from the Rockets’ FB page. But Clutch holding two puppies? Yaaaas.
Our driver’s funeral service was today. Afterward, I spent time away from everything rescue-related because sometimes I need to breathe and focus on a bigger picture.
But I can never really escape the dogs. Debby and I went to one of my favorite shops, Body Mind and Soul, where I found bracelets made by Chavez for Charity. The two bracelets I picked out benefited Best Friends Animal Society. It seemed a nice way to honor Charles Roberts’s commitment to the rescue of animals.
The theme for World AIDS Day 2016 is Leadership. Commitment. Impact.
Read about Thirty Years of AIDS
In memory of Steve R, Don P, Jeff C, Tim R, John M, and Pete M.
Our transport rescue group is proud to be part of Best Friends’ annual Strut Your Mutt fundraising event. We’re hoping to stay in first place with our fundraising campaign, and we know we’ll have a lot of fun at the October 15 Strut Your Mutt day in Houston. Come out and join us!
If you can’t join us, you can still donate. This year, I didn’t form my own team. Instead, I donated to Timothy J. Lambert’s team. He would LOVE for you to help him reach his fundraising goal. You can go to his team page and read why this matters to him and even donate by clicking here [link is redacted because fundraiser has ended].
Thank you for helping us take Houston’s dogs and cats (and so far, two PIGS!) from death row to loving homes. We will always work to save them all!
September 5-11 is National Suicide Prevention Week. Every day I think of our nephew Aaron. I think of all the times we laughed together. I think of his playful nature, his wisdom, his compassion, the food and dogs and books and movies he liked. I think of the many photos his mother shared when we lived so far apart that allowed me to watch him as he grew up. I think of his visits to The Compound as he got older and the cherished place he took among our family and friends. I contemplate how he loved us and protected us, especially his parents, from the truth of the depression that engulfed him.
No matter how much I wish I could, I can never forget the stark truth of his last day and the terrible phone call that began my reality of living in a world without him. He killed himself just before his high school graduation. His friends overflowed his memorial service to say goodbye.
This year we didn’t celebrate his college graduation. We won’t know which career choices he might have made. We won’t see him marry, or hold his first child, or be part of all the celebrations and challenges that every family goes through together. Aaron didn’t take that from us. Depression did.
I wish no parent, no child, no brother or sister, no aunt or uncle, no grandparent, no cousin, no friend would ever have to know this kind of loss.
For more information about recognizing the risk factors and warning signs of suicide, please visit the American Association of Suicidology website. If you are struggling, please visit the Suicide Prevention Lifeline website. You can call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) and you’ll be connected to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area, anytime 24/7.
We love you, Aaron, and hold your memory in our hearts.
