petfinder

I just added the little petfinder adoptable pet thing feature on the left. I was inspired to do this because a friend of mine just had to put down her very old beagle, and she was looking for a new one. I couldn't remember the name of the great big searchable pet site (aka petfinder) but I knew my friend betsy had a link to it on her site. Thus I provided the link to my friend who was looking for a new dog. Hopefully she will choose a shelter dog in need of a new home, and spoil the dog rotten for the remainder of its life. And maybe by having put the little feature on my site, someone else will remember they saw it and pass it on to someone who needs it.

Pets are an awsome responsibility, not to be entered into lightly, after all you are taking responsiblity for a life. That means care, feeding, vetrinary expenses, and attention for the remainder of that lifetime. I don't understand how people can see pets as disposable. It seems quite wrong to me. I admit I didn't care for my budgies to the end of their days, in fact the were getting rather ignored, when I came upon an elderly lady, the mother of my brother's CCD teacher to be precise, who was missing her recently deceased budgies terribly. So I gave her mine. I got christmas cards from her for years telling me about my budgies, long after I had gone to college and had expected them to be dead, she actually sent me a letter when the first of them passed on. But I could no more abandon a pet in an apartment, or toss it out of a car on a country road than I could do the same to a niece or nephew whose care was entrusted to me. The true character of most people can be judged by how they treat those with less power than themselves. Under the same theory I know that someone who is nice to me but mean to a waiter or waitress or other service person isn't really a nice person.