Bring Home Long Lost Pets

31/10/2024

31/10/2024

‼️WARNING ‼️
Keep Pets Safe During This Time.
Designer dog?
Bully breed?
Mixed breed?
These all mean CASH to those who sell them to dog fighting rings, bait animals, research labs, etc.
Not just tonight but every day

The numbers of pets TAKEN right from under the noses of good owners has not stopped but growing.
Fenced backyards are not safe.
"Just a few minutes to potty," not safe.
Ferocious watch dogs, not safe.
Cats are not safe.

Remember, thieves are clever and can use drugs (injections), food, distractions.
They will WATCH & WAIT, stake out your home, hit and drive off in a few seconds.

31/10/2024

Really, this is another holiday that is bad for pets.
They are scared of masks and costumes.
Strobe lights.
Spooky sounds and scary decorations terrify them.

Every year, there are calls for scared dogs that escaped when doors were opened for trick or treaters.
They run from their owners.
Catching them is beyond a nightmare.
Not to mention the possibilities of a dog biting out of fear.
Write ID on collars with a Sharpie Marker.
📌Give your pets a safe and quiet place to relax during the festivities today.
📌Please keep candy out of pets reach.

I know that Halloween is a ''fun'' time for lots of folks, but it is NOT always a safe time....
So be Careful
Stay Safe AND...
Keep your pets safe too !!!
Sadly, there have already been pets that have been tortured & killed during this Halloween season...
SO, PLEASE SECURE YOUR PETS

25/10/2024

The nightmare of every shelter....
44 dogs died.
Many of the dogs were saved from the dog meat markets.

24/10/2024

🐾I want to live in a world where no one hurts animals or other people.🐾

24/10/2024

PRAYING MANTIS EGG CASES
I look for these now when I am trimming shrubs...

Now that I know what they are, I am leaving them be so they can hatch out next spring.
Nature is so interesting!!!
God made so many amazing critters!
The pic is one of their egg cases...

22/10/2024

If anyone thinks that God does not care for our 4 legged friends/pets & birds & all other of HIS Creation, then you surely do not know HIS HEART.
Read the Book Of Job and you will get a glimpse of God's Heart...

PROVERBS 12:10a:
A righteous man respects the life of his animal or know the needs of their animals
(the Hebrew word is literally "knoweth" in Exodus 23:9 and means he knows what animals want, what they can bear, and treats them accordingly)
(A godly man would not put even an animal to needless pain)

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible
A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast,.... Or "knoweth" it (q); knows the worth of it and values it, and takes care of it, and is concerned for the preservation of it; he provides sufficient food for it, and gives it; he does not overwork it, but allows it proper rest from labour; and, if in any disorder, will make use of all suitable means to heal it; see an instance of the care of Jacob, that righteous man, of his cattle, Genesis 33:14; and, on the other hand, see an instance of a wicked man's cruelty to his beast in Balaam, for which he was reproved, Numbers 22:28; by various laws and rules which God has given, it is his will that men should be merciful to their beasts, Deuteronomy 25:4; and such who are so will be more especially pitiful and tenderhearted to their fellow creatures;
Pulpit Commentary
Verse 10. - A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast. For "regardeth," the Hebrew word is literally "knoweth" (Exodus 23:9); he knows what animals want, what they can bear, and treats them accordingly (comp. Proverbs 27:23). The LXX. translates "pitieth." The care for the lower animals, and their kind treatment, are not the produce of modern sentiment and civilization. Mosaic legislation and various expressions in Scripture recognize the duty. God's mercies are over all his works; he saves both man and beast; he hateth nothing that he hath made (Psalm 36:6; Psalm 145:9; Jonah 4:11; Wisd. 11:24). So he enacted that the rest of the sabbath should extend to the domestic animals (Exodus 20:10); that a man should help the over-burdened beast, even of his enemy (Exodus 23:4, 5); that the unequal strength of the ox and the ass should not be yoked together in the plough (Deuteronomy 22:10); that the ox should not be muzzled when he was treading out the corn (Deuteronomy 25:4): that the sitting bird should not be taken from her little brood (Deuteronomy 22:6), nor a kid seethed in its mother's milk (Exodus 23:19). Such humane injunctions were perhaps specially needed at a time when man's life was little regarded, and animal sacrifices had a tendency to make men cruel and unfeeling, when their symbolical meaning was obscured by long familiarity. These enactments regarding animals, and the mysterious significance affixed to the blood (Genesis 9:4; Leviticus 17:10-14), afforded speaking lessons of tenderness and consideration for the inferior creatures, and a fortiori taught regard for the happiness and comfort of fellow men. Our blessed Lord has spoken of God's ears of flowers and the lower creatures of his hand. But the tender mercies; literally, the bowels, regarded as the seat of feeling.

16/08/2024

LITTLE CHEEPIE MEMORIES...
03/01/2021 - 08/15/2022
CHEEPIE THE ROBIN
God let me have the privilege of loving a little robin.
Just when I think I am over being so heartbroken, this comes up in my memories and once again my heart is broken, and I am left feeling guilt over Cheepie's death, but God has you now, Cheepie and I know you are flying high and singing with the best of them now...
Why didn't I look out in the front and how in the world did he get out .....
Cheepie was never able to fly, but he could sure eat good....
I will forever feel guilty that I did not look for him around the front of the house....

May 1, 2021
I called EVERY rehabilitation place that there was and none of them would help us out other than one lady who gave me advice on how to raise him. I was so thankful for her.
Bob brought him home to me, and we raised him up, but he was never able to fly.
He had ''personality'' plus and looked like he had ''old man'' sideburns on his little head 🙂
And most of his little poos look like marshmallows .. lol

August 16, 2021
ok, I am checking out baby bird pics and he might be a robin...but not sure since I really don't know what baby birds look like other than my barn swallows.....anyhoo, he is cute!
I did read that I should not try to raise him but find a rehabilitator and if course I have no clue who does that for birds.
I just knew that those coffee cans would come in handy - they make great little birdie nests.
I have no clue what kind of a little guy he is but he does have ''personality'' plus !! It looks like he has ''old man'' sideburns on his little head 🙂
And most of his little poos look like marshmallows ..

August 26, 2021
I talked to the rehab lady and told her about his top beak, but she said that his beak will grow back out. Whewww!!! I was so relieved about that.
Cheepie was eating / pooing good and we were so, so hope that he/she would learn to fly down the road soon but Cheepie never did.
Cheepie LOVED worms that I got every morning for him and he really liked his canned dog food.

Sept 16, 2021
Little Cheepie is very spoiled.
I just got in from being out digging up worms for him.
The stink likes to be hand fed but considering he is ''special needs'' right now that is ok...
His right wing is still healing, and his little top beak is starting to grow just a tad so I have to clip the bottom one off a little every so often....
He does love his worms & dog food though...
And yes, I do know that you can not keep ''wildlife'' but I have contacted the rehabber to know what to do for little Cheepie and I also contacted a vet service who can take care of birds and they advised that they would most likely put him to sleep so hey, I am not doing that when he wants to try..
September 1, 2021
Has anyone else besides me just ever wanted a robin sit on your hand or have it come to you when it hears your voice ??

October 14, 2021
Got Cheepie more worms dug up and Bob & I got fences panels moved before the rain.

October 25, 2021
I hope Cheepie appreciates me out digging in the poopie mud to find him worms. It is kinda fun though.

October 30, 2021
I am so stoked! Found lots of worms & they were on top of the ground. Cheepie be loving it!!

November 9, 2021
We took Cheepie out to the woods for a trial run but did not pan out. Brought him home, clipped the good wing & will try again.

November 19, 2021
When down to check on Cheepie who is now in the Big Red Shed.

December 1, 2021
Cheepie update: he is in the big red shed now with plenty of space to learn to fly & water & food - will get a pic of him later.

December 16, 2021
It is earthworm mating season. Getting worms for Cheepie and loads of worms mating.

January 11, 2022
Since Cheepie's water keeps freezing I ordered him a ''birdbath deicer''.
But in my dream the other night the thought came to me, ''why not use a coffee cup/candle warmer''
Took one down yesterday and it worked!! Shut it off for the night but time to head back down there and turn it back on.
I love when God speaks to me in dreams....
Think I will use the little ''deicer'' in the baby fish pond now or at least see if it works.

July 4, 2022
Bob is gonna build Cheepie an enclosed pen up here. May need some help getting it done.

August 1, 2022
Where is Ashley Suzanne Hall when I need her!!!!!
I'm trying to catch Cheepie.

August 4, 2022
Well, we finally got Cheepie moved to the corn crib here for the rest of summer/hot days so he/she can be out of the big red shed which was sooooo hot on these summer days.
Cheepie didn't seem to mind though and he will go back there for the winter months.
Bob & I got to thinking the other day and Cheep has never been outside since his first fledgling days when he got hurt and Bob brought him home for me to doctor up.
We doctored up the corn crib so that Cheep can not get out and nothing else can get in plus I have been keeping a close check on him. It is fun to watch him being outside.
I was out early this morning (4am) to make sure he came through the rain ok and he is dry as a bug in a rug.
Cheepie's wing never totally healed enough for him/her to fly but Cheep can jump up and flap around so he is a pretty happy little bird.
And for anyone who might question us on keeping him, YES, we did contact NUMEROUS bird rehabs but the only help they would give us was to put him down.
A few months ago, we thought we had finally found someone to help so Ashley and I spent a couple of hours getting Cheepie caught and ready to go only to have them back out the next morning when we called to get directions.
One of the other rehab ladies that I contacted did nothing but chew me out and threaten to turn in the only rehab person that did give me advice on how to feed Cheep when we first brought him home.
For the first few months, I kept in contact with the rehab lady that was super helpful just to make sure we were doing everything correctly but since his wing never healed totally, we just let Cheep have the run of the big shed. We really didn't know what else to do because we couldn't just turn him out for a predator to catch and eat.
Cheepie was super safe in the big red shed just like he is super safe in the corn crib now after we ''doctored it up to make sure nothing can get to him and he can not get out.
I don't know how long Robins live but so far he is about 1 1/2 years old. He loves his food !!! Fish pellets, berries, dog food, worms that I catch for him and I ordered him mealy worms the other day too plus have been cutting up apples which we have plenty of.

August 10, 2022
Cheepie had a friend today - a little sparrow !
I think it was helping eat his food, but hey, a friend is a friend.

August 14, 2022
Well Cheepie has ''flew the coup'' again !!!
I was out at different times during the night and have searched everywhere since 5:30am and he is no where to be found. NO feather anywhere either.
If he is over at Joe's or out in the field then I will be hard pressed to find him. I was hoping that he would come back to the crib this morning wanting to eat.
And how in the world he got out I will never know!

August 15, 2022
Bob found Cheepie and he was deceased.
He is buried in the front flower bed now...

11/08/2024

This has become an epidemic !!
Daily I see post after post of pets being left for whatever reason and THEY WAIT for their owners to come back.....
It breaks my heart to think of how 'heartless' we humans have become....
SO PLEASE ..... if you have a pet that loves you, take care of them...

The pup looking at the door is from this post ...
~John Urbancik~
“On June 4, 2024, Chai, a brown and white ‘pitty-mix,’ was surrendered to Columbus Animal Care & Control in Georgia. The reason for surrender was listed as ‘no room.‘ After her family left, Chai watched the door, waiting for them to return. They didn’t.
“Still, she was one to two years old and had her whole life ahead of her. And through the agency that is supposed to give dogs like Chai a second chance when things go wrong, she could find a worthy family — one that would give her the life she deserved. This was especially true for a dog like Chai, described on her paperwork as ‘affectionate’ and ‘playful,’ and good with everyone: cats, dogs, men, women, kids, and strangers...
“Unfortunately, that didn’t protect her from being killed by pound staff — and killed in a manner that was unprofessional, uncaring, cruel, and potentially illegal...
“[S]taff botched what appears to be six attempts to inject her with a lethal dose of barbiturates… before resorting to intracardiac injection — heartsticking her — a process that involves plunging a syringe through the chest wall and several layers of muscle into a dog’s heart. An animal killed by a heartstick feels extreme, severe pain (due to the amount of nerves) and then suffers a heart attack.
“To get to the heart, the needle would have to pe*****te the skin, body wall with costal musculature, costal pleura, pleural cavity, pericardial pleura, fibrous pericardium, serous pericardium, pericardial cavity, epicardium, myocardium, endocardium, ventricular chamber, and if the lung is pe*****ted, the needle must pass through the pulmonary pleura and lung tissue itself. It is so painful that Georgia law only allows it to be done when the dog is unconscious. (GA Code § 4-11-5.1(a)(3).)"
https://news.nathanwinograd.org/p/the-short-life-and-tragic-death-of-b2c?fbclid=IwY2xjawElLlpleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHaCusm-ttmRzxCNuBjICp80e0it9j-fZ3eA5mg_FLYQU9oMsaDSfYPAOBA_aem_c8EaD1MRNI2YVA3HYX28sA

10/08/2024

This is NOT MY BIRD but please if you want to have a bird think about their lifespan.
They live about as long as we do.
This little one endured 36 YEARS of SADNESS & TERROR only to be in such a bad, bad shape that her current owner had to have her put to sleep.
She had 3 previous owners.
Birds are NOT solitary creatures, so think about that.
It just breaks my heart to think how we humans treat other living creatures.
I even think about that when rescuing animals.
I try to think of their lifespan and how many more years I will be able to care for them.
Guess that is why I mostly take in older animals like dogs or goats - my barn cats on the other hand can probably take care of themselves if they had to, but the ones I have now should be gone by the time I can no longer take care of them.
Sad to think like this, but I have to for their sake....
So Please, TEACH YOUR CHILDREN COMPASSION FOR OTHER LIVING CREATURES!!

FROM THE ORIGINAL POST...
Lauren Bailey Lewis
It’s taken me a few days to figure out how to put this into words.
On Monday, we had to say goodbye to Melissa.
Melissa had a sh*tty life. She is thought to be a wild caught parrot, taken from her nest. Her first owners wanted her as a decoration because she looked nice in their house. There was no interaction. She was just something to look at. Then she became messy, so she was rehomed to a gentleman who was very involved in theater. Theater kept him away a lot and Melissa was left alone. Greys are weird. Strangest parrots I’ve ever owned. Separation and lack of stimulation does sad things to them.
Melissa’s third owners, who I got her from, did their best with her, but the damage was already done. Her feather plucking, self mutilation, inability to be touched, fear of life. Fear of shadows, fear of sounds, fear of people, fear of hands and trash bags and blankets and absolutely any kind of foreign object. She was scared to live.
When Melissa fell ill, I would up consulting with two different vets. Due to the fact that Melissa was so badly mistreated and couldn’t be handled, treatment for anything that may be wrong with her would have been almost impossible. There was no way to medicate her without terrifying her.
No one really grasped what I meant when I said she can’t be handled. Handling her TERRIFIED her. She would throw herself off of a perch onto the hard bottom of her cage should a hand come near her, screaming and flailing around. She often injured herself this way. She would get bruises and scratches and marks on her fragile, tiny naked body from these falls. Even just changing her cage paper or trying to clean the bars sent her into complete hysterics.
So when Melissa started to decline, it wasn’t as clean cut of an issue for me as it would have been for any of my other parrots. It became an issue of her quality of life. Quality of life is difficult to provide captive parrots anyway. They need foraging, sleep, constant attention, interaction and stimulation. I could barely provide Melissa with that because she was so terrified of any new toy or object entering her cage. The thought of trying to catch her to even take her to the vet was scary because of the stress it would put on her and wondering what she could do to injure herself. Holding her - touching any part of her body other than her beak or top of her head - never even happened until the night before I took her to the vet. Her sheer terror of people horrified me for her. Her last memories of being handled by people she doesn’t know made me sad for her. Her mistreatment made me so, so incredibly sad for her. Because someone never took the time to show her people were ok, our options for treatment were slim to none.
Sunday evening I knew the end was near and Monday morning I made the hardest decision I’ve ever had to make in my life and said goodbye to Melissa at the vet. Even though she was scared, I held her and told her how loved she was and how sorry I was that we couldn’t do anything else for her. My heart broke that day. Shattered.
Nothing about me is ok right now. Nothing feels right. Making the decision to end a life that is not mine doesn’t feel right. The pain from that is so overwhelming sometimes that it hurts to breathe. Thinking of her sadness and terror that she endured for 36 years, all for it to end like this, kills me.
So forgive me if I’m not me for a while. Working through this slowly while trying to still take care of my flock and family is all that I can do right now ❤️
Love your birds. Treat them right. Remember they aren’t just pretty things to look at and sit in cages all day. Remember when they are loud and messy, that’s what they do, and they should never be punished for that. Should never be abused. Because even if they aren’t with you, 30 something years down the road, the way they were treated at one time could be a matter of life or death.

08/08/2024

A list of Cruelty-Free companies....

https://ethicalelephant.com/cruelty-free-brand-list/

07/08/2024

PLEASE......Quit Breeding Your Pets.
It Is An Epidemic Right Now of Dumped, Unwanted, Once Owned Pets..

If nothing else, think of the 1,000s upon 1,000s that have to be put down each and every day in shelters daily because shelters are overwhelming full and have no more room.
Some shelters are even shutting down...

HEARTBREAKING....

07/08/2024

Absolutely ALL of God's Creation is Amazing...

07/08/2024

Pleaseeeee......if you are in a flood / storm area, DON'T LEAVE your pets or livestock locked up in barns or tied up to a tree or in kennels/crates where they can not get to higher ground.

05/08/2024

It is an epidemic!!