POOR PACO!!! He got his "big boy" surgery yesterday and he's not feeling too spry today!! He can't figure out why he has to wear a lampshade on his head!!! But now he's ready to look for that loving home of his own!!! Me and Mom are watching him pretty close to make sure he doesn't rip out any stitches or anything.
We're competing again in the shelter challenge so you folks be sure to vote for us okay?Just go to www.animalrescuesite.com. Click on the vertical tab on the right that says "Shelter Challenge." Type in "lighthouse" for shelter name. Click on Costa Rica for country. Click search. When our name comes up vote for us and wait for the confirmation question.
All is well here at Lighthouse for right now. The sun is shinin', there's a nice breeze, and we have some GREAT new friends in our guest room!! By the way!!! We are renting out our guest room to vacationing animal lovers!! If you're coming to Costa Rica we'd love to have you stay with us!!! You can read about our place at http://www.airbnb.com/rooms/37923
A new shelter challenge has started!! The vote site has been REALLY messed up and we were losing TONS of votes but now!!!!!! WHOOOO HOOOO!!!!! Doin' the HAPPY DANCE!!!!! It looks like they finally got the site workin'!! At least now we show up in the international category!! We're in 1ST place!!!!!!!! Lots of people have posted us today to tell us they were FINALLY able to cast a vote!!! WHEW!!!!! If you still have problems voting PLEASE let us know!! Be sure to read this whole post please!!!
Go towww.animalrescuesite.com. Click on the vertical tab on the right that says "Shelter Challenge." Type in "lighthouse" for shelter name. Click on Costa Rica for country. Click search. When our name comes up vote for us and wait for the vote confirmation question. You will be asked to identify the animal in the photo.
There is NO PRIZE for 2nd place in the international category this time so we will have to stay in 1st place to win the thousand dollars. We showed up in 2nd place international last night so you folks must be doing some HEAVY VOTING!!! THANKS!!! We even LOST a lot of votes over the past three days due to their system being messed up!!
In the overall category we were #49 yesterday. Today we are #26!!!! WOW!!!! We could actually win the grand prize if this momentum keeps up!!! So ask all your friends to vote too please!! Just forward this reminder to them!!
If we could get a weekly prize (most votes for the week) we could win a thousand dollar prize for that!!
OR!!!! If some of you can write stories and enter the "New Beginnings Story Contest" and designate us as your chosen shelter we could win $3,000.00!!!!!
OR!!!! If we get LOTS AND LOTS and LOTS of votes we could win the GRAND PRIZE of $5,000.00!!! Just think how many animals we could help with that!!! So there's lots of ways to win if we just put our minds to it!! And our clicking fingers/paws!!!
Thanks again to all of you who have been voting and those of you who have been trying to vote!! You should be able to vote with no problem now!!!
Remember, if you want to be added to our daily reminder list just let us know!!! One email a day, with a captioned photo of a Lighthouse kid is all you will get. We don't do spam or anything like that.
Want a daily reminder to vote? Just email mrbudbud@gmail.com and ask to be added!
Letting Them Go, By Frances Jones
The hardest part is letting them go.
By Frances "Kitten" Jones, 2008
Harder than having to look at the terrified eyes and having to smell the stench of their mange and the poop in the matted fur around their raw and oh so tender backside.
Harder than seeing them cower in a corner because they have been so badly abused in the past they have no reason to expect anything different.
Harder than cleaning up the puddles because they urinate out of fear every time someone looks at them.
Harder than shaving them to the skin because they are so horribly matted they could never be combed.
Harder than finding festering sores or even broken limbs under all that matted fur.
Harder than cleaning their poop off the floor or out of their crate because nobody ever cared enough to teach them about going outside.
Harder than seeing them frightened by grass because they have spent their lives on wire floored cages.
Harder than smelling their rotten breath because their diet has been so bad their teeth are all destroyed.
Harder than watching them bump into walls because they are blind from the ammonia stench in the lower puppy mill cages.
Harder than hearing the vet say, "There's not really anything we can do."
The list could go on forever.
None of this comes close to being as hard as letting them go once they are whole again.
But it is all part of doing rescue. If we kept them all we would eventually run out of space and there would be no room for the next one who needs us. Therefore we have to let go.
Animal rescue is one of the most heartbreaking jobs in the world and there are not enough people doing it. Our hearts will be broken again and again. We are horribly outnumbered by the animal abusers, irresponsible owners, greedy breeders and the like.
But then, there is the reward. Seeing the most disheveled, terrified, emaciated animal blossom into a loving, beautiful, loyal, healthy, confident creature.
They look into your eyes and you know. It is worth doing over and over and over.
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