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| Animal Rescue Creed |
| I'll never bring about world peace |
| I won't single-handedly save the rain forest |
| I'm not a brain surgeon and I'll never transplant an organ to save a ife |
| I don't have the ear of a powerful politician or world power |
| I can't end world hunger |
| I'm not a celebrity, and God knows I'm not glamourous! |
| I'm not looked up to by millions around the world |
| Very few people even recoginze my name |
| I'll neer win the Nobel price or end global warming |
| There are a lot of things that I'll never do or become |
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| But today I helped place an animal |
| It was a small, scared, bundle of flesh and fur that was dumped at a shelter |
| or on the streets by unfeeling people who didn't care what happened to it |
| but yet who were responsible for it having existence in the first place |
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| I helped find it a loving home! |
| It now has contentment and an abundance of love |
| A warm place to sleep and plenty to eat |
| Two little boys have a warm and playful new friend who will give them |
| unending affection and teach them about responsibility and love |
| A wife and mother has a new free spirit to cuddle, nurture and care for |
| A husband and father has a funny friend to sit in his lap at the end of a hard day |
| of work and help him relax and enjoy life |
| And a sense of satisfaction that when he is gone all day at work |
| that there is a gentle spirit in his home keeping watch over his family |
| No, I'm not a rocket scientist. But today, I'm made a difference! |
| And I'll do it tomorrow too, if given a chance. * |
| --Author Unknown |
| *You too could make a difference! Fill out a Foster Applicationand join us. |
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| The Reason |
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I would've died that day if not for you
I would've given up on life if not for your kind eyes
I would have left this life believing that all humans don't care
Believing there is no such thing as fur that isn't matted
Skin that isn't flea bitten, good food and enough of it,
beds to sleep in, Somone to love me, to show me
I deserve love just because I exist.
Your kind eyes, your loving smile, your gentle hands
Your big heart saved me...
You saved me from the terror of the pound,
Soothing away the memories of my old life.
You have taught me what it means to be loved.
I have seen you do the same for other dogs like me.
I have heard you ask yourself in times of despair why you do it
When there is no more money, no more room, no more homes
You open your heart a little bigger, stretch the money a little tighter
Make just a little more room...to save one more like me.
I tell you with the gratitude and love that shines in my eyes
In the best way I know how
Reminding you why you go on trying.
I am the reason
The dogs before me are the reason.
As are the ones who come after. Our lives would've been wasted,
our love never given
We would die if not for you.
--Author Unknown |
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