Caring For Animals

Happy Halloween! I won’t be passing out candy again this year not because I don’t like the kids, but more for the fact that I live on the second floor and with kids going in and out all night from the front door I think it’s too risky that the cats might run out. My cats are indoor cats because I prefer to have control over their health and well being.  I know there are two sides of the debate about indoor and outdoor cats. What people choose to do is fine, as long as you care for and nuture your pets the way a pet owner should. Which brings me to one of my new interests. Either visting or volunteering at the Humane Society once a week or so.

I never really realized that the animal shelters encourage people to come and visit with the animals to keep them socialized. I thought it was only open to those who were looking to adopt. However, this week I brought an abandoned cat to the local shelter and noticed how many people were there just to see the happy critters everywhere. Someone in my neighborhood decided they didn’t want their cat anymore. The poor guy for whatever reason decided that he wanted to camp out on our front porch for the last few weeks. Honestly I thought he belonged to someone in our house so I didn’t really think much of it because it’s not the first time someone other than myself would have cats in this building even though there is a no pet policy.

But Sunday morning I asked my neighbor about the cat because her kids seemed to know who he belonged to and they informed me that the owner said the cat is in a better place. Meaning that she had no intentions of caring for the cat anymore. Well how nice to just decide to abandon a living thing that depends on you to provide it warm, clean shelter, food and water. I put a bowl of dry food out for him and figured it would attract him back to hang out with us again. Sure enough on Tuesday he was out there all day long. Just curled up on the carseat that is on the porch for about seven hours. Finally around 3:00pm I went down and checked to see if he was still there and he was. I got him in a carrier and took him over to the shelter because I just cannot adopt another cat and at the moment I don’t have the extra money for veterinary bills to make sure he’s healthy etc…

In the end, he’s got a nice warm comfortable home and people will be there to pay attention to him and give him love everyday. It got me to thinking about wanting to give some of my time and spend time with these animals who are so full of character and honestly if I had the land I would adopt every one of them. But the next best thing is going there, visiting, playing and giving them lots of love. Just seeing all of these cats with these funny personalities just makes my heart melt. All of the cute little puppy dog tails wagging and cold puppy noses and kisses and licks is more than I can stand. It’s something that uplifts my heart no matter how down I am feeling. I think it will be beneficial to all of us. I just hope my two little dopeys are willing to share me for a couple of hours a week. LOL I think they will be just fine lol .

I Want Change In My Life

I woke up earlier tonight and decided that I wanted coffee. Since my body is on a night schedule again, I may as well enjoy the coffee and flavored creamers that I bought this afternoon. Normally I perk my coffee on the rare occasions that I think my stomach can handle having it. Then it dawned on me, I have a practically brand new Mr. Coffee sitting in my pantry why am I not using it? It got me thinking about things. This has been the story of my life for the past six years. When I moved to New Hampshire back in 2000 it was the intention of getting my life back together, getting on my feet and getting out on my own. My mother and stepfather very generously allowed me to live with them for the two years that it took for me to straighten out my debt, get a stable job, buy a car, and lastly start accquiring furnishings for my own place.

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Wonderful Driftwood

I’ve reached my threshold on how much torture I am going to do to myself over people who want nothing to do with me. I made one last attempt to get some kind of answers and received none so it’s done. Whether that made me appear needy or not, I don’t really care. But today I received the most wonderfully unexpected driftwood that completely lightened my spirits and put a huge smile on my face. Now let me explain why…

Last night I was on the way to the grocery store because someone paid me for a quickie project so I had some extra cashola and wanted to pick up a few essentials. I was listening to the free Money and the Law of Attraction CD that I got with my book and I was feeling pretty revved up so I was like you know what? To hell with so and so! He’s not important to my life at all anymore, screw him! I’m the only one who is important in my life and my happiness is important and I am going to make damn sure that I’m happy. Furthermore I stated to myself that I only have good looking, kind men attracted to me. It was in a highly emotionally charged rant I was having in the car with myself (yea I do nutty stuff like this at 3:00am alone in my car).

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