Does anybody out there read what I write week by week? Most days I wonder. I know there are some of my blogs that are found by the search engines because I see the stats and I know what people search on. I know they are interested in reading about Oogy, and it makes me happy to know that his story is being found, but twice a week now I pour my heart and soul into writing about the animals that I love so much and feel so passionately about and I wonder, do I make a difference in the lives of any of the animals out there? Do I bring comfort, or educate anyone? Does anyone care? Did anyone pay attention when I wrote that there is no medication to treat heartworms, so we have to treat our animals with preventative 12 months out of the year now rather than just during the warm months because you can’t take that chance in this environment? Or the truth of cats and toxoplasmosis. Even if you’re too old to be pregnant today it’s information you could be sharing with others if you knew about it and understood it, but first you have to read it, and I don’t think anyone paid any attention at all. So I wonder why I continue to do this. It’s one thing to be ignored, but to be ignored twice as often, well that’s really insulting. Then today I again saw on story of the German shepherd that had his face blown off by the boys that tied his mouth shut with firecrackers inside:
German Shepherd with no face
And I remember why I do this. Twice per week I pour my heart out to whoever will listen to me in the hopes that somehow, someplace, someone will be touched and will do something. Maybe someone will adopt a cat because they’re no longer afraid of having a cat around pregnant women. Or they recognize that there is something wrong with those boys that live down the street and the police need to be contacted because their abuse is accelerating and if I don’t intervene, no one will. But I can’t do this alone. I need your help. I’m not asking you to read every Tail Talk I write. My own family doesn’t even do that. All I’m asking is that you read what looks interesting to you, take it to heart, then when you see something where you can put it into action, do it. Don’t sit on the side lines any more. Be the one that makes the difference. Make your voice be the one that speaks up and is heard because no one else is speaking up. We have to stop this abuse. We have to stop this acceptance of dropping off animals because we’re tired of them. Let’s hold people’s feet to the fire and make them accountable.
Tail Talk is published bi-weekly http://TailTalk.org or you can find us on facebook by searching for the TailTalk.org page. Please visit and share with all your friends, and ask them to share with their friends, etc. Help me get the word out because remember, we’re in this together, and I need your help. Let me know you’re in this with me and I’m not out here by myself. Together we can change the world. Please…
And never forget, it is only through you that the Randolph County Humane Society continues to save lives, one by one.
