*le sigh*

I was going to put up Labor Day weekend pictures, but I'll do those later. I figured I should explain.

So that super precious pibble? : ( She wasn't the right match for us and I'm so, so heartbroken. She is such an incredible, amazing dog. She walked with a loose leash almost all of the time. She stopped being so interested in the cats and stopped wanting to chase them. She slept like a log after the first two nights all night long. She always rang the bells to go outside. She did everything we asked of her. But we weren't able to crate her and leave without her screaming.

It's been almost a week since we ended the trial period and drove her back and I'm still so sad. : (

I hate that I'm sure that eventually things would have been OK. I hate that I don't have the time to try and make sure things were OK by the time I start school in two weeks. I hate that we took her back and confused her and made things harder for her. And most of all, I hate that I'm relieved that I can go to the grocery store or to the post office or library and not have to worry about her screaming and crying in her crate.

I am happy that someone who will be a much better match for her than we were is getting the chance to adopt her, and I hope it goes well.

I miss the pibble. : (

Delayed Secret Santa and More Herbs

So I'm sure I've mentioned it before, but I belong to a pets message board that has a ton of Amazing Ladies on it. This year, one of them decided that instead of doing the normal Secret Santa that we usually do that it might be fun to do a donation Secret Santa instead. Meaning we would draw people but instead of sending their pets presents, we would send the presents as a donation to an animal shelter in our person's name and send the person a card to let the know how awesome they are and what they had donated in their name.

We decided to donate to Best Friends Animal Society. There are a lot of bully breed fans on the board (myself included). This is the incredible rescue group that took in the dogs from the world's scummiest-scumbag-lowlife-jerkface-probable son of the devil who should be strung up by his toenails and Chinese water tortured-stupidhead-twatwaffle-creep-not a real person person (michael vick who doesn't even deserve capital letters in his name!). They healed their bodies and hearts and placed them into wonderful forever homes.

Now that I'm over ranting over said dirtface jerkwad (OK, maybe not quite) I can show you the amazing bonus presents my Secret Santa sent Summit and Mitzie.


Christmas stockings for the little monstas! Aren't they so stinkin' cute?! And she even made a white one for Summit and a black and white one for Mitzie. I almost cried when I saw them because it was so sweet. She also put in some pawbreakers and fun little mice to bat around. The cats were so happy. I got the best Secret Santa ever this year!

And also, when I woke up this morning my dill had sprouted. And when I got home it was all standing up and super cute! So here's a picture of the dill that was feeling left out. Look how tall and proud it looks! In fact, it might be taller than all of the others.


My chives are looking much better, too. They were tall enough today I could pull away some of the mold? fuzzies? blanket? surrounding them. There are some little black things on them at the top. Pieces of the seed . . . shell? Whatever it's called that it grows in and stuff. Maybe I'll learn this in Biology soon and I'll be able to update with the proper term. They're looking pretty cute, though!

Stop BSL!

I don't know how people feel about Breed Specific Legislation (BSL), but . . . essentially it's banning specific breeds from areas. For example, if you have a pit bull type breed and drive through Denver, CO with your dog and get pulled over your dog can be taken and put to sleep. It doesn't matter if you don't live in Denver. It doesn't matter if you're doing a transport for a shelter pittie and you're helping the dog get to a new home. Pit bull breeds are not allowed there, as well as many other states (Iowa :( and Ohio are also particularly bad states for BSL).

This issue isn't just applied to pitties; German Shepherd Dogs, Dobermans, Rotties and many other breeds are banned. Places ban the dogs based on their breed, not on the individual dog. It's like saying that every person from France should be banned from the US because one mugged you only this is resulting in animals being killed.

I am begging everyone I know to register at the following website and vote to ban BSL. The idea of this site is that the top three issues will be passed on to Obama once he is in office to change the US. Right now, BSL is in 4th place and voting ends tonight at midnight.

http://www.change.org/ideas/view/ban_breed_specific_legislation

Pets are NOT disposable!

And they are not even on the same level as weeds or annoying sock issues. If you think your pet is one of "life's little annoyances" you shouldn't have ever gotten a pet. And they should put you up for adoption on petfinder.com.

So much for reading Real Simple anymore!

I'm almost as mad about this as Jeff is about having to go to jury duty in the morning. And he's pretty ticked off.