Easy Life

It's a lazy Sunday on the Dog Farm. All the critters are napping - Jasmine under the dining room table, Maggie on the stairway landing, Brandy at Husband Bob's feet in the family room, Pennie next to me in the kitchen and Annie is in her comfortable little cubby hole. The dogs are quiet and resting, but I'll bet if I stand up from the table they will get up too and be ready to go! Go anywhere - the backyard, to the dog park, for a ride.

Maggie had an encounter with a stick at the dog park Thursday. The stick won and Maggie ended up at the vet with an ulcerated eye. She's on pain killers and antibiotic eye drops. Maggie's eye looks much better now and the pain seems to have gone away. She goes in for a recheck on Monday to make sure everything is healing correctly.

Fireworks go on sale tomorrow for July 4th. The coming week will be especially long for Jasmine and Annie. We'll turn on radios and fans to muffle the noise but it will probably be a long week on the Farm.

I am so happy to tell you that Momma Dog and the puppies are doing well. Momma's new name is Faith - Faith because we had to keep the faith as we worked on her behalf. The fear of the justice system returning Faith to the evil man was resolved Thursday. That hurdle is jumped but we haven't forgotten the fight. We are investigating how people can act in an animal's best interest. How domestic animals can be represented. It makes absolutely no sense that a cat or dog would have to be returned to the person who was, literally, starving them to death.

Several North Platte friends participated in rescue transports last week. For those who don't know about transports, it's relaying dogs and cats from Point A to Point B. The task is to move a cat or dog from where they are to where their new home awaits them. Volunteers drive the animals, say 100 miles, to meet up with the next volunteer who then drives to the next and the next and the next. Transports are a wonderful way to help animals who otherwise wouldn't find their forever home. I haven't driven as many transports as some but those I've done have been very rewarding to know I did a little bit to help an animal get to its forever home.

Have a good week ahead.