Quoting this again because it needs to be said, and Anon, listen to her.
The only place she goes wrong is saying that she doesn’t make a difference - she does! Yes it’s only one animal at a time, but just think if everyone could help just one or two animals?
There is plenty of cruelty here in the good ol’ USA. As **Lynn B ** said, there’s still dog and cock fighting. There are also puppy mills, smuggling of wildlife for ‘pets’, and people who keep animals (exotic and not) without the least knowledge of what it takes to keep that animal healthy and happy.
There is cruelty a-plenty in this world. See what you can do to make your local world a bit more animal-friendly.
It’s a good thing my kids and dogs and husband are cute and snuggly, else I’d sell them all to the circus to finance a trip to Tahiti and many umbrella drinks.
Damn cat chewed on one of my sweaters I had hanging to dry. I don’t even know how he got to it, it was hanging well out of his reach, or so I thought. He would’ve had to make a Superman jump from the washing machine to reach the sweater or else stand on a box that’s too flimsy to support his weight.
I’m mad at him but also would like to see how he did it. Cats…
Thanks everyone. I used the wrong words when I said it didn’t make a difference. What I meant was that no matter how hard we (rescue people) work, the critters in need are endless. I know I can’t save the world, but I can be the world for one cat at a time.
Education is the key, if more people understood the need to have their pets fixed we might be able to stop running in place.
That’s why I try to get smart, passionate and articulate people like Anonymous User on board.
BTW, Anonymous User, volunteering looks very good on your CV and is a great way to network. Many very successful people devote their extra time to rescue. I’ve met rock stars, politicians and well-known writers face to face in my years doing rescue.
I know that you want to make a difference in the world, and that you are trying to make plans for your future. If you get into rescue now, the contacts you make will help a lot.
I wish people wouldn’t open the windows in the bus when it’s the middle of winter!
Though maybe they’re trying to actually see out the damn bus windows, which are usually very dirty and hard to see out of at this time of year.
I’m wondering if you perhaps live in a place that’s much warmer in the winter than were I live.
Another thing that annoys me is when people open the bus windows when it’s raining and/or snowing. Especially if the person in front of me opens their window, so they don’t get rained/snowed on, but I do.
Bad week. One aunt passed away fairly suddenly last week at the age of 61, now my favorite aunt is terminal ( down to days or hours at this point ) at not quite 73 :(. Smart, funny and extraordinarily kind to me when I was a child.
sigh It’s one of the worst things about getting older - relatives start dieing in bunches. Not to mention it brings to mind the impending mortality of my parents. They’re all doing reasonably well at this point, but once you hit a certain age it’s depressing how quickly things can go downhill.
Do people know what “Emergency” means? As in, “oh, I think I broke my arm, I better go to the Emergency Room.” Not “oh, my tummy hurts and I have the sniffles, this is an EMERGENCY!!!11!!!”
It’s just so frustrating when it’s packed in there and I know more than half could have waited until the clinics open in the morning. How can they afford the ER bill? It’s crazy.
Seconded. You may have to set up a nanny cam or something, but this must get on tape!
Need to have their cats fixed. The story about there being too many dogs in this country is a myth - there are certain areas that have trouble due to local beliefs that dawgs should run freeeee, and neutering a dog means you aren’t a man anymore, but over all? Few puppies in shelters, and far too many shelters are importing dogs from other countries. The dogs that are dying for the most part are “pits” (i.e. anything that remotely looks like a pitbull), teenaged medium to large sized mixes with zero training, and dogs dumped because they are “too old, cost to much to cure” or are nasty.
Will you go easy on the freaking bleach already? You don’t need to squirt it into the hot whirlpool every 10 seconds, and you don’t need to repeat the process in the steam room either. I can’t even go in the steam room without wearing swim goggles because the bleach-steam hits me right in the eyes. I had to leave the whirlpool the other day for the same reason.
It’s HOT water, ladies. Just how many germs do you think could be living in it?
The simple answer is that a lot of them probably have no intention of PAYING the ER bill. They don’t have insurance, but know that the ER won’t turn people away for being unable to pay, so they use it as their primary care source.
You’re right. Or they have the state funded health insurance (which I don’t know a ton about, but I do think it covers most things). I just wish we could be mean and make them sit forever. “I’m sorry, for the sniffles we have a four hour wait.”
I have the sniffles today myself (allergies) and I’m totally on board with that wait for trivia.
I watch “Untold Stories of the ER”, and I never cease to be amazed at the self-important idiots who think minor owies should get priority over gunshot wounds, stab wounds, heart attacks, etc., just because “I was here first”. Get a clue! ER is NOT “first come first served”, it’s “life-threatening NOW, THEN we work our way down through the range of serious”.
Why the HELL can’t I learn to look at the date of the OP before reading pages and pages of something that occurred in fucking 2005?? Half the posters are either banned or drifted away! No one cares! And whoever it is that revived this zombie is bound to be a newbie with an axe to grind or a tinfoil hat! Just LOOK at the DATE, idiot!
Several of my friends are ER folks. The stories they tell would curl your socks. One of them got called out to someone who couldn’t get hard, and didn’t speak english. During the time they wasted on that call, somone else got into a terrible car crash and died.
Bill has just picked out my wedding jewelry. Diamonds. Can this BFWW just be over, please.
Don’t really need to; flatlined did a better, gentler job than I did.
If you really don’t understand, I quoted your bullfighting post where you said
and was pointing out that the reason people were challenging you was that this was “learned quite recently” and not the result of years of thought or research (or searching the forums). I’ve suggested before that people should “lurk” for a long time before they post. Listen to others’ ideas, rants, and styles before you start trumpeting your own. It kept me from being a reactionary whippersnapper.
It’s not just you-- I’ve given that advice to Diamonds05 and others here. Because showing some self-control and listening here is one of the smartest things I’ve done, and I’d be a bigger pain if I’d just jumped in and started talking without waiting and watching for years first.
“Bitch, the only way you’re getting in ahead of Mr. Smith here is if you have a more serious wound. <racks shotgun> Which we can arrange. No? Then sit your ass down.”
If I’d tried that with my bride, I would’ve been politely but firmly accused of being controlling. If I’d persisted, there wouldn’t have been a wedding.
I know you know that, and want to do whatever Bill wants, but where’s the limit? Isn’t it going to be your wedding, too?
