As a board member of the local humane society I encourage everyone to ADOPT, not SHOP for pets. Every rescued pet is another one that breeders and puppy mills will not profit from. Mixed breeds are inherently healthier and make wonderful family members. Although HSNB is a no-kill shelter, many animals are still neglected and face euthanasia due to the lack of forever homes.
We all understand the laws of supply and demand. Let’s save as many animal lives as possible because these pets cannot speak for themselves. This is why I have been volunteering in this field for years. I typically foster and facilitate the adoption of designer dogs that come my way, allowing me to adopt senior and special needs dogs permanently. These decisions have brought me family members and love that fulfill my life.
There were some cool drones and kites (visible above our heads in some of these pictures) and we took a nice walk along the Napa River with the darks. We loved some of the food options and both appreciated the “Ube Area” booth.
Chocolate chihuahua mix Moe was fostered for a few days and 15-year-old Bentley was back for another dogsitting episode. Snoopy and I joined them in the backyard while Bonnie stubbornly stayed inside.
Not sure what the squirrel wants from the Spanish Moss but nesting material, but this one seems determined, yet there’s a whole area full of Spanish Moss that he’s completely ignoring.
Snoopy followed by foster Moe checks out the taunting squirrel yet along, but the squirrel doesn’t give a fuck.
The contractor suggested I periodically stop by and work on my garden which was great advice. Rather than feeling sorry for myself for not getting home sooner, it’s nice to stop by the house and make some concrete changes that will help my garden to be ready for me incrementally. Shea helped me water the plants while I cleaned up a lot of the materials and did some serious pruning to be able to see some of the garden features and release the windmill from the newly grown bamboo and other overgrown plants. Snoopy and Bonnie were happy to chill out while we worked back there. I found it very therapeutic.
My beautiful Bonnie finally got her sutures out this morning and now is medicine-free, not to mention pain-free! She’s healing well and will look so cute when her bangs grow back. She doesn’t need her Elizabethan cone anymore and we don’t have to worry about any infection of her surgical area. She’s back to her normal, sometimes growly self, but loving life, Snoopy, Shea, and me. She loves her walks and car rides as per usual, and for me, despite missing her very expressive eyes, it’s much easier to look at her healing face and eyelids without the sutures that she’s had for two weeks. It’s wonderful to know she won’t need 22 drops a day and other oral medications that cost a lot of money for years on end, not to mention the difficulty of scheduling these maintenance periods throughout the day that interfered with my aspiration for an otherwise low-maintenance lifestyle. I still have a gofundme if anyone is interested in helping pay for that bilateral enucleation, but thank you so much to those who contributed toward that one-time expense to give Bonnie a much higher quality of life as an otherwise healthy, blind dog! 🙂
