WELCOME TO DOGWOOD: ARE WE REALLY ALL THAT SUPERIOR???

THE EVOLUTION FROM PRINT TO BLOG

For two years, I wrote a newspaper column about the misadventures of the Dogwood pack. Our pack consists of my six dogs ,two cats, and me. We have the Queen and oldest, Lucy the Lab. Then there's my special Child, Charlie, a German Shepherd/lab mix who owns me. My rat terror (I mean terrier) Hines keeps us in check, while Italian grey hound/terrier mix Daisy destroys the furniture. Our sweet cat Pearl, who passed away in August of 2010 from complications brought on by Feline Leukemia, was a lone feline for her short five year existence. When she passed, orange long hair tabby kitty Bart, and Siamese Flame Point Sebastian moved into our hearts.

When we moved to a new town, I was unable to continue the columns, so we decided to stick our paws into the 21st century.
Since the move, TWO MORE sets of paws run the floors at Dogwood. Linus, a little black lab, and Squirt the Chi-Weenie.

Now that we have moved onto blog media, I will keep the mayhem of my fur kids adventures updated as they happen. I also want to post special needs animals and stories about shelters and people who are doing wonderful work for rescue. Since this is no longer edited or censored--you may see images that are a bit more shocking, and read copy that has a bit more venom--so be prepared. Thank you all for reading!!!!!!!!!

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

ARE WE REALLY ALL THAT SUPERIOR???

The picture above came from a post on Facebook that was shared with me by a fellow animal warrior. I didn't event get to the text to read what it was about before the tears welled up in my eyes. But this is what it said:

Lily a 6 year old great dane lost his eyesight

due to a rare disease.

He became... disheartened
until he met Madison.

They have been together for 5 years
and Madison guides Lily by the leash
and touches him to make sure
he doesn't stumble over anything.

The picture reveals how dependent
and loving they are to each other.

The image of these two animals, helping each other, so lovingly watching over each other to ensure that "no one is left behind"---it just spoke VOLUMES to me in seconds.
These are the creatures that over half the population of the United States deem as DUMB ANIMALS. These are the creations of the ALMIGHTY GOD that people say have NO FEELING, NO EMOTIONS and NO SOUL.
These are the LIVING BREATHING THINGS that we mass murder DAILY in pounds ACROSS THE WORLD!
Yet, here they are--TWO SOULS helping each other thru life--showing more compassion--more heart--and more LOYALTY than most of the HUMANS WHO ARE WALKING, BREATHING, AND CLAIMING to be the SUPERIOR RACE.
I can't help but think that maybe we have it a bit more backward than popular opinion holds.