Sunday, February 01, 2009
I can't believe it has been a year since I have been on this blog site. We are currently working on a new blog site for SCL. Seems that all of our bloggers have forgotten their user names and passwords so no one is able to get on the site.
I won't blog much here since we will be having a new site soon.
The year whizzed by. SCL has been very successful in placing a few dogs through the year. We always think "one dog at a time." We are not a group that bails out 100's of dogs just to let them languish on a chain somewhere. All of our members feel that finding the best home for a dog is more important than keeping a dog alive just to say that we "saved" it. To me death is not the end of a life but often the new beginning. So many dogs up here are living a life of "death" just here on earth. Abuse, starvation or being stuck at the end of a 4 foot chain seems more cruel to me than death at times.
Ah...I could rant on and on but the main focus of these blogs is our successes with the dogs that we have rescued.
As my dogs get older I realize the value of a full and happy life, maybe not even a long life....just a productive one while we are here. We have lost several dogs this last year due to old age or cancer. Life moves forward but always hard loosing those that you love.
I thank Don for being in my life. Not only is he my partner in life but also is the one that is computer literate to keep all the electronic aspects of SCL and my web site up to date.
Dogs have been great. All our SCL dogs are doing well. We've also gotten an SCL dog that went through too many hands before we promised her this would be her last stop. That is Lichen. Her name used to be Jenny but Don renamed her because we already had a Jenny (another SCL dog). More on Lichen when the new blogs get up and running. But she is probably the most feral dog that I have ever had.
So. I will end here. Fairbanks is having a fairly cold winter (compared to the last 3 or 4 years) and I am grateful that I have a dog barn to house the dogs that aren't staying warm in the house. And we have 15 dogs in the house!! FUN!
I won't blog much here since we will be having a new site soon.
The year whizzed by. SCL has been very successful in placing a few dogs through the year. We always think "one dog at a time." We are not a group that bails out 100's of dogs just to let them languish on a chain somewhere. All of our members feel that finding the best home for a dog is more important than keeping a dog alive just to say that we "saved" it. To me death is not the end of a life but often the new beginning. So many dogs up here are living a life of "death" just here on earth. Abuse, starvation or being stuck at the end of a 4 foot chain seems more cruel to me than death at times.
Ah...I could rant on and on but the main focus of these blogs is our successes with the dogs that we have rescued.
As my dogs get older I realize the value of a full and happy life, maybe not even a long life....just a productive one while we are here. We have lost several dogs this last year due to old age or cancer. Life moves forward but always hard loosing those that you love.
I thank Don for being in my life. Not only is he my partner in life but also is the one that is computer literate to keep all the electronic aspects of SCL and my web site up to date.
Dogs have been great. All our SCL dogs are doing well. We've also gotten an SCL dog that went through too many hands before we promised her this would be her last stop. That is Lichen. Her name used to be Jenny but Don renamed her because we already had a Jenny (another SCL dog). More on Lichen when the new blogs get up and running. But she is probably the most feral dog that I have ever had.
So. I will end here. Fairbanks is having a fairly cold winter (compared to the last 3 or 4 years) and I am grateful that I have a dog barn to house the dogs that aren't staying warm in the house. And we have 15 dogs in the house!! FUN!
