Animal Lover

I miss Maggie more and more everyday. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wonder if things would have been different had I stayed home the night she passed. I feel like I lost my daughter, I know I lost my best friend. It is so hard to not think about her all of the time. I hope she understood how much I loved her and that I would have done anything in the world to have been able to have shared another day with her.

I think the best thing I can do for her now, is to honor her memory by being an involved animal rights activist. Animals deserve loving families & forever homes. We gave that to Maggie and I pray that I can make a difference in the lives of other animals -
So, but no it is no secret that I adore animals. I am a huge supporter of no Kill Animal Shelters. I am also a huge supporter of getting your animal fixed. Why do I think you should get your animal fixed? Well, maybe because I have a small crush on Bob Hope. More because I think that the overpopulation of unwanted animals is getting seriously out of control. I follow a few of my favorite animal shelters on face book. All of the shelters are too full. They cant take in anymore, and they cant adopt out what they have. My heart is so tender and I feel like every animal deserves a forever home.

This weekend I fostered two Border Aussie female pups who are 8 weeks old. We still have one, and we have melted over her. She is so amazing, she has truly blessed our home. Grammy Sue & Dillon adopted Daisy Belles sister and they named her Bella. I thanked Dillon tonight on face book chat and told him that it meant a lot to me that they opened their hearts to give Bella a forever home. Dillon, being the humble person he is said “No problem its just a home.” But, to me its not just any home. I know that Bella will be loved unconditionally. She will be fed, bathed, walked, trained, watered, s payed, and LOVED forever. That’s not just a home to me, it’s a home filled with love.

This is Dayzee Belle our love!

Let everything that has breath praise the Lord (Psalm 150:6).

Proverbs 27:23: "Be sure you know the condition of your flocks, give careful attention to your herds."

I love that verse. Be sure you know the condition of your animals, and pay close attention to all of them - God wants us to take care of animals just like we would take care of our family or friends, neighbors or strangers. If a person is homeless we help them - why wouldn’t we do the same for an animal?
　
　
I am considering adopting a Guinea Pig for Easter. We will have to see exactly how adventurous I get!!!

(PS. I promise more pics soon!!) Adoption. The first animal that Kirt and I ever adopted from an actual shelter is our Cat. Peanut Buster. Not Butter. Buster. Autry named him Peanut, I wanted to name him Buster. Together, we came up with Peanut Buster and if you don’t say it right Autry wont hesitate to correct you!! I know I have talked about him in a previous post, but I cant stop talking about him. When I went to the Humane Society of Kansas in Wichita (Hillside and K-96) we went with the intentions of strictly looking. We met PB and it was over from there. The volunteer explained to me that PB had been left at his residence when his family moved away. He had already been fixed and was de-clawed. In my mind I felt like obviously the previous owners loved him to have had paid for him to be fixed and de-clawed! My heart was so broken. This cat had been loved and cared for by a family and then they just left him, dumped, defenseless and alone. I couldn’t possibly leave him at the shelter so we took him into our care. The paper work had been filed and we headed West. When we got home Kirt immediately fell in love. We have been his people ever since!!


When you adopt an animal from a shelter its amazing how quickly they realize you gave them a second (possibly third, fourth ect.) chance at life. PB is so forever grateful. He thanks us all the time.

If you have an animal or too many animals and you need to get rid of one or some …. Why would you just dump them on the side of the road? Why would you just leave them to die? There are so many places that will take your pets. Some places charge, some don’t. It’s absolutely cruel and senseless to dump an animal. It is also cruel and unnecessary to abuse an animal, starve an animal, mistreat an animal in any way. If you couldn’t take care of the animal why did you get it? If you cant take care of multiple animals especially helpless little animal babies - Why didn’t you just get your pet fixed?

I want to leave tonight’s blog on this note: