Hello from Best Friends Animal Sanctuary! This VERY early morning I began my day feeding the dogs in Dog Town. I was assigned the "Old Friends" neighborhood in Dogtown Heights (a gated community). Then washing a zillion bowls, socializing time and then the walks begin. (after breakfast settles). Many, many walks! A big plus for ME....if you volunteer in the morning you don't have to pick up dog poop!
Tomorrow I will move on to Cat World...again in the VERY early morning. This is an amazing place and very beautiful. Our campsite is overlooking a river /canyon to one side and red sandstone cliffs to the other. The people here work very hard and are very grateful for the volunteer help. 2000 animals require a lot of attention. They have lovely quarters and the views are spectacular! This is truly a sanctuary. It is peaceful and serene with nothing but goodness all around. (My son is reading this and laughing at his "hippie mom".) Huge (and not so huge) wind chimes are everywhere so it's practically like being in a serene meditation room all throughout the sanctuary.It is very clean and all of the animals are so well cared for. Just the sheer logistics of moving them around because of illness, or weather, or whatever is mind boggling. Speaking of weather.....The weather here is beautiful...we had a perfect 85 degrees yesterday and the evening was around 70. The wind just picked up and the temp is supposed to drop tomorrow...so I was told.
Bill has been on the floor for several days. He was leveling up the motorhome and his back went out (I have pictures much to his chagrin). So he didn't get to work today and we won't be doing any sight seeing for a while. He is in a LOT of pain.So, please, cross your fingers, pray to whoever you pray to, chant or do a dance that his recovery is swift.
My car is giving us trouble (click, nothing. Click Nothing. then all of a sudden it will start) and Bill is thinking a new starter might be the answer but he is no position to go look for one. I did get stuck on the Best Friends property for a while this morning so my confidence level is quite low right now.
Our Karma must have been good, however , when we left our cozy campground at Bryce Canyon Pines and headed up to the National Park campground. The weather turned much nicer and the 27 degree nights never happened. We did every hike that we old folks could do (Bill even did a 4 mile with his bad back hoping to work the muscles out . It didn't but he saw some nice stuff! Of course now he can barely move so it probably wasn't the smartest idea).
I urge you all to try to support Best Friends either by donation, adoption or a visit for a few days of relaxation with some of the luckiest animals (now) that have ever lived. They all have a story. Some of those stories are hideous. But boy....have these animals scored! Please visit their website at www.bestfriends.org and you'll see some of the great dogs that I had the pleasure of spending my day with!
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