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happily ever after?

i moved brutus out of the cage today and over into one of the medical room pens. ruby is sleeping in sidneys anyway...she likes it better in there so brutus…
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i slept from about 9pm last night til 6 am this morning....

hopefully that ought to unfry this tired old brain. my list to-do's is getting long...get some money down on the vet bills so i need to figure out the fairest…
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Oldies but goodies

(From Jenn) I am pretty sure my mom may kill me for this or at the very least change her pass word so that I cannot post pictures anymore ... oh well it is…
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ya gotta love rescue....one headache after another...and three more forgotten things.

i forgot the douglas college students again til they arrived here at 9 am...what is wrong with me? i forgot the ferrier was coming and i forgot i had called…
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i think tyra had a very brief seizure last night..it was over so quick, i am not totally sure.

i have noticed that she has been quiet the past few days..i thought she was upset with me because i got really mad at her on saturday night. she had gotten…
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saints welcomes sir brutus (and i did not name him)

he has an interesting and all too familiar story. brutus, a plain black, wild tom cat lived outside of a house for 9 years...when the house sold 4 years ago…
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here is a copy of an email i sent today to someone far away who is reaching the end of their rope with dealing with their old dogs incontinence issues and are searching out options for products to help, or hospices close to their own area to surrender the

hi xxxx about 20 of our current dogs suffer from incontinence issues..it is a natural progression of extreme aging just like it is in humans. the first thing…
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Virtual Tour

(FROM JENN) We estimate that we had about 300 people visit including the Mayor of mission, a freelance photographer from the Mission Record and about a dozen…
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ok...enough of the sappy shit..

the open house weekend is without a doubt the most physically and emotionally exhausting weekend of the entire year for all of us...we put everything we have…
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the mushroom dog song

(sung to the tune of..."do you know the muffin man?") do you know the mushroom dog? the mushroom dog? the mushroom dog. oh do you know the mushroom dog who…
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looks like the volunteers were all as bagged as i was yesterday, and probably went to bed early too.

the highlites for me were... we met the mayor...really nice man. he came by for a tour, congratulated us the good work we do and said the city of mission was…
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my back is out and i am in an unhappy mood so i am just posting quickly before i go to bed so the other volunteers can comment on today's open house for you.

the day went well, lots of great folks thru...all of us were tired and the animals were really good. it ended badly tho..once everyone was gone, i went up into…