Reason # 19 - No kill, anyone?

I think it can be safely said that I love animals.  When I am settled, I will be volunteering at the animal shelter ... well ... maybe.  My heart might break too many times, cause I'd want to take them all home.  I'm told that it's just not feasible to own too many pets.  I can't volunteer at our local shelter here in my city because they kill. 

So there's this - Reason #19 to Move to San Francisco

Ben wants me to come visit him in San Diego.  Now that I can fly free, I'll definitely go, but I don't know when.  Thanksgiving is the biggest travel holiday of the year, so I doubt my son will be able to celebrate it with me.  Maybe then.  Maybe it'll help with the depression.  But then I'll come back home to winter ... how depressing. 

Hiney likes to stand up on his back legs like he's ... uh ... standing up.  When I'm getting their food ready, he stands next to me and pats my hands as they are reaching for the refrigerator door or the counter top.  His front paws just reach the counter.  Right now he's standing up next to the wicker coffee table, and reaching with one hand paw trying to get a candy wrapper that was sitting on the middle of the table.  He looked just like a 2 year old toddler reaching for something he knows he's not supposed to reach because THAT'S WHY IT OUT OF HIS REACH.  When he did nab it, he turned his back to me while he figured out what it was, and then he did a Linda Blair/Exorcist thing with his head and stared at me like "Is this all that it is?"  Cause both cats were scared of it at first. 

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Jeffrey is still nervous around the kittens.  When they go into their manic running around the edges of the entire apartment, leaping over this and that - he gets a certain look on his face, eyes staring straight ahead with his ears back a little.  He looks like an old man sitting on the porch, who's irritated with the noisy kids next door.  Like he's trying to hold his tongue. 
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The little hellions. 

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Comments

[JH Zunda]

Wonderful news about SF SPCA. Mary Tyler Moore is taking on the challenge of making NYC a no kill city. If that can be done (SF can, why not NYC?) then someday there may be no excuse for any backwater township to choose expedient over humane methods.
Like you, I have SUCKER tattooed across my forehead and the last three of my cats were given to me by well-meaning people who knew I would do right by them. I'm afraid to volunteer at the shelter for your exact same reasons, so I just assuage my guilt by sending money when I can. My local place endeavors to be no-kill, but we're surrounded by less progressive towns that wish they could eliminate their homeless people population in much the same way they handle their homeless animals. It's a constant struggle.

[JH Zunda]

Wonderful news about SF SPCA. Mary Tyler Moore is taking on the challenge of making NYC a no kill city. If that can be done (SF can, why not NYC?) then someday there may be no excuse for any backwater township to choose expedient over humane methods.
Like you, I have SUCKER tattooed across my forehead and the last three of my cats were given to me by well-meaning people who knew I would do right by them. I'm afraid to volunteer at the shelter for your exact same reasons, so I just assuage my guilt by sending money when I can. My local place endeavors to be no-kill, but we're surrounded by less progressive towns that wish they could eliminate their homeless people population in much the same way they handle their homeless animals. It's a constant struggle.