18/09/2025
We have a day of adorable dogs ahead of us and we are so glad that we do. ❤️
But we went to bed last night with thoughts about the state of our country spinning through our head and woke up around 4am because we couldn’t shake them.
Those thoughts often run in parallel to thoughts of the dog behavior and care fields and of our local animal shelter and broader animal welfare system. The parallels are many and that’s because all of it, each intertwining system and cultural trajectory, is driven by humans.
We wrote this post not very long ago but we’re going to reshare it because it’s on our minds again. We don’t want a world or individual lives made electively worse by the choices of humans. But we currently face exactly that.
To maintain our own quality of life and perspective, we use the touchstones in this post. We also actively and intentionally focus on the good in our own lives and the good we see around us. But that’s not enough by itself to meet the current moment. The world we want to live in requires that we do what we can to help build it. We don’t have all the answers for how, but we are going to keep trying. It feels really hard to do that these days so we thought we’d let you know we’re here with you. ❤️
👉🏽 https://www.dogpossibleaustin.com/blog/the-great-regression
