SO nice to see ex-puppymill moms clean, healthy and enjoying life!
who was adopted out. This is her in her new home cuddling with her Beanie Baby!
I keep it and tape it above my desk. I look at them daily to keep inspired!
Thank you for all the kind words!!
I don't know what I will do this winter when i can't hang it all outside! The electric bill will be insane..... Oh, and hint hint.... i need LOTS of Gain!! ;)
Lots going on here as usual. Kathie is Busy writing out Grants trying to get the funding for the equipment for our new vet clinic. HOPEfully we will get this money and be able to continue the clinics. To date we have gotten 619 animals altered here!! I have gotten a quote on a 12'x32' building that i think we will be able to afford. It will come unfinished on the inside, so if anyone has any hadware stores that they know of willing to donate flooring of some kind, paint, particle board and light fixtures let us know! Thanks Barbara B. for finding this grant for us to write to!
All the animals are great here. Bonita is finally back to normal after being SO sick and not eating for 9 days. I am not sure who felt the worst after this deal, her- or me! This was a 149.00$ vet bill, and the Moonlite had to have hemotoma surgery on her ear that was another 233.00$..... THEN- for the good news- Trooper Frank the little chihauhau with the horrible bite wound is completely healed and Dr. Welsh has officially adopted him! WHAT a happy ending!! The pictures of TF can be seen on Tami Walden's facebook page.....
Thanks to Mike C. this month for making new H4FF logo's for the side of the Explorer. They look great!
Also a big thanks to Sue O. from the hometown in Iowa for the GREAT Donation!
And of course thank you to everyone for your help!! KNOW you are appreciated, and that there are a bunch of little furrbabies laying around this place just simply enjoying life baceuse of YOU.
HOPE you enjoy the poem.
Tami & Critters
Once I was a lonely cat,
just looking for a home.
I had no place to go,
no one to call my own.
... I wandered up and down the streets,
in rain in heat and snow.
I ate what ever I could find,
I was always on the go.
My skin would itch, my feet were sore,
my body ached with pain.
And no one stopped to give a pat,
or gently say my name.
I never saw a loving glance,
I was always on the run.
For people thought that hurting me
was really lots of fun.
Then one day I heard a voice
so gentle, kind and sweet,
And arms so soft reached down to me
and took me off my feet.
"No one again will hurt you,"
was whispered in my ear.
"You'll have a home to call your own
where you will know no fear."
"You will be dry, you will be warm,
you'll have enough to eat,"
"and rest assured that when you sleep,
your dreams will all be sweet."
I was afraid I must admit,
I've lived so long in fear.
I can't remember when I let
a human come so near.
And as she tended to my wounds,
and bathed and brushed my fur.
She told me about the rescue group
and what it meant to her.
She said, "We are a circle,
a line that never ends."
"And in the center there is you
protected by new friends."
"And all around you are
the ones that check the pounds,
and those that share their home
after you've been found."
"And all the other folk
are searching near and far."
"To find the perfect home for you,
where you can be a star."
She said, "There is a family,
that's waiting patiently,
and pretty soon we'll find them,
just you wait and see."
"And then they'll join our circle
they'll help to make it grow,
so there'll be room for more like you,
who have no place to go."
I waited very patiently,
the days they came and went.
Today's the day I thought,
my family will be sent.
Then just when I began to think
it wasn't meant to be,
there were people standing there
just gazing down at me.
I knew them in a heart beat,
I could tell they felt it too.
They said, "We have been waiting
for a special cat like you."
Now every night I say a prayer
to all the gods that be.
"Thank you for the life I live
and all you've given me.
But most of all protect the cats
in the pound and on the street.
And send a Rescue Person
to lift them off their feet."
