Blogger slacker

It's been three and half weeks and now I'm being called a blogger slacker on FB! My only excuse is the usual - it's been so busy, both with the good and the bad.

I'm truly worried about what the budget cuts are going to mean to animals in town. Not being called out for Priority One calls is going to have consequences I don't think many people have contemplated. The entire City budget has been slammed, I'm glad I don't have to make the choices our Mayor has to make - what do you do when the money just isn't there? Meanwhile
animals in the field won't be getting the care they need. I'm not worried about those already in our care, once they are in the building we can do what's necessary, but what about our citizens, our animals and their needs? A dilemma I can't see the answer to.

We're climbing kitten mountain these days - that time of year when the graph of kitten intakes climbs fast and furious. So many litters are being brought to us by the public. Kittens under the porch, in the barn, in a box on the side of the road. Some with Mom, most without. Some too young to make it without bottle feeding, others just big enough to make it on their own. Mostly they come in as strays which means we have to hold them for three days in case someone comes in to claim them. But let's be real, you don't "lose" an entire litter of kittens. So many and not enough homes to adopt them all.

Fiona was back in the office last week for the last of her heartworm treatments and she looked great. She came right to my door and practically wagged her tail off when she saw me. She looked wonderful and her family loves her. She'll always be special to me.

We continue sending dogs to Colorado for adoption. We've sent another plane load up as well as another van full. Another volunteer with a SUV was headed up there for another reason and offered to take a few dogs with her. We sent four and all were adopted within hours. A favorite, Waldo, went on the trip - he was a 3 month old black lab with hound ears and the most laid back young lab I've ever seen. He would sleep on a quilt under my desk for hours at a time, was happy to just lay in my lap and would tolerate any other animal in the office - amazing.

The office is getting so full! I have another, yes another, chocolate lab. He came to me with the name Hershey and is a mostly choc lab with some cattle dog mixed in. He has faint white markings on his face and of merled choc and white stockings. He's housebroken and very sweet. Another cat named Midnight, a black (duh) long haired domestic, is living happily with the run of the office. That's because of had four kittens living in the big cage. They were very tiny when they came to me and I've had them about three weeks now. They greet me every morning with a chorus of meows and entertain me no end. As I've said before the cat world is a new one to me and I love to sit back just watch them. They aren't named but I have two black ones and two grey ones with white stockings.

So along with the chattering parakeets, the meowing kittens, Midnight sitting on whatever I'm working on and Hershey demanding a pat on the head, it's a wonder I get any work done at all. And tomorrow is the 16th, that means payroll.

One of my officers who's been out for more than two months is back today, YEAH! Dr. P will back from vacation soon, YEAH! We start training with the new software next week, YEAH!
See, it's not all bad, it's not all bad, it's not all bad. (Just repeat after me!!!)