Yah I am also ready for the weekend as well. I am glad to hear your doing well. I volunteer at a dog rescue so I will be doing that tommorrow, what do you have planned?
Oh my goodness, that's so so so fantastic. I love that you will be at the dog rescue tomorrow, I'll be living vicariously through you for now. I really want to look into doing that, there's a small rescue in my neighborhood where people can volunteer to take the dogs for walks in the neighborhood. There's a park nearby and they take them there to play.
I am going out with some friends this evening and then tomorrow to my parents home for a couple of days. Their home is my sanctuary and escape from the city. I love going out to my suburban retreat.
Yah I love it so much, I volunteer at the adoption days so I get to see some dogs get adopted, and then I also take the dogs out of the crates during adoption day so they can get a drink and stretch there legs. I love the dogs they make me so happy, and they take all the stress and worry when I am with them.
I hope you have fun with your friends tonight and your parents tommorrow.
I know what you are talking about. When you help out with a dog rescue place it is almost like time does not exist in your world due to you are so focused on them and then it feels great you are a part of them getting a second or third chance in life. People like you make it worth while for a rescue organization to rescue more dogs. Keep it up.
Puppydoglvr, any thing you might be able to do to help any rescue place is greatly appreciated. And it would be good to take the dogs out and play with them in the park. Taking them for jsut walks help them not be so anxious and they find homes easier when they are more relaxed in a rescue place. When dogs are jsut in a kennel run and do not get out they act up more and there chances of getting adopted are not that good.
Do what ever you can if you are able to.
Princess- what kind of rescue place do you work with. (any breeds, purebreeds, shelters, or private rescues)
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I absolutely will get out there and start to help in any little way that I can until I fulfill my dream of buying a big piece of land where I'll be rescuing lots of dogs and give them a happy home.
K9 it's a dog rescue, and they don't have a facility they have foster homes for the dogs, and they are not profit and so they rely on mainly the adoption fees and donations. Also they take any dog and cat breeds
Puppy, I am really glad that you are going to go and look into helping till you can have your dream, and get some land and rescue lots of dogs and give them a happy home, I think that is so awesome!
Hope your dream of a place to rescue works out. I had that dream but it got crushed.
Princess- first off I help out with shepherd rescues and know of other facilities that rescue. Where I am located they od try ot have fosters, but to many out there that need homes and many still end up in kennel runs and boarding facilty's. I work at a kennel and we board dogs that are from rescue groups. I know of the kennel across the street from us that does springer rescue and she has any where from 5-10 boarding at her place at one time. But on top of that I was also talking about the shelters. They are full of dogs waiting for homes, and there chances are better if they get out for exercise and the people that do that are normally the volunteers.
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K9, why did you dream get crushed? Is there anything that you can do to revive this dream? I think that anyone who wants to do something as amazing as you do, then they should continue with the dream.
My dream was crushed and I stole it from myself with out knowing it. when i moved into the kennel I work at now I wanted to be able to save money tell I could take it and get a place of my own. When I moved in here about 14 years ago I had already had about 10,000 saved. For about 4 more years I ended up saving a total of about $35,000.00 I thought at that time I was looking at kennels for sale and figured no rush but if I found somehting worth while great. I figured I still save more money in the meantime. The next year things started to fall about on me. In my mind these neighbors were throwing trhings over the fence (which was happening at the time) but then I asked them not to, and then their uncles came around and ended up a few of my dogs got sick so took them to the emergency vet and they had poison in there system. So then started to leave them locked in the house when I was not home or could notr watch them, but then one day there was antifreeze in there water bucket out front, and I found a few bags of poison in it. So I started to let my dogs in another area to keep them safe, but two of them ended up sick again and they had been give advil and one was a dwarf german shepherd, I took them both to the vet again and the other dog was fine due to her size and ok health, but my little guy well he was in intensive care at the er hospital for 3 days fighting to get better. He would be a little better than start to siezure. Well by day four they said he had been siezuring for over 4 hours straight and no medication was working so putr him to sleep. At this time I had 6 dogs of my own. Long story short this went on for about another year with these guys hurting my dogs and me going to the vets with them. Then these guys turned on me and attacked me several times so got an alarm system put in. Well side tracted but long story short over about 5 years of trying to keep my dogs safe from these guys and hospital bill, and then trying to keep myself safe and some doctor bills due to me being sick at times too and assulted by these guys, well all that money I had saved was gone except about 2,000. about 4 years ago I got in an accident and had to use that to help get a car that would work for me and my dogs since the one I had got distroyed in the accident. The about 3 years ago go see a therapist and about 1 1/2 year ago diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and learned during this process that these guys never existed. So that is why I say I stole from myself. Well in the last 2 years I have been in and out of the hospital 3 times and that has cost me money that i do not have so on the credit cards all those bill went. So go from having a dream and a savings to make it happen to in about 15 years in debt and cant even save money for that dream. So it is gone. I tried to hold on to itr for a long time, but all it did is bring me down even more and make me realize what I did to my own life. I screwed up everythign in it, I always have and still do,.
K9
Thank you so much for sharing your story with me K9, I am so sorry for what you went through, but you know that you can still work towards your dream and make your life what you want it to be. I understand that the past had some bumps in the road, but now there's a new beautiful future laid out for you. Is there any way to start saving again?
You volunteer at a shelter for now which is such an amazing thing to do.
before I start paying I have to get out of debt from the last hospital bill and er bill and ambulance bill. which will take me about 4 months to do and I am working on it. But the hard part is I know how long it took me to save what I did. and that is gone. I made 20,000 last year and with medications, and therapy and dental stuff needed to be done, back care I need to keep up to be able to work out like I like to, and hospital bills I spent about 14,000 on medical last year. So I do not know if saving money is an option as much as just surviving. Plus the fact of my job at risk of closing down and at the same time that is my job and home, so things do not look good in my future.
K9
I knwo this is very negative thinking but in my mind it seems realistic thinking to me. I never want to get my hopes up again just to be taken away.