Random Steps Toward Recovery

I'm sitting here wondering how something as simple as a bum knee can keep my creative juices at bay. For some reason I've had no interest in updating this blog for the past week. Pain, yes - but it's not really that bad. Perhaps it's because I was focusing on the elections and getting angry at the extent of HSUS's pre-vote campaigning over the past couple of years. No links here tonight - I'm too unfocused to go searching for them right now, but they'll get added in later.

If I visited Sac City and the Bradshaw facilities tomorow, how many adoptable animals would I find? And... where would they have come from? Heard from one friend that a large, 75# male was transferred to one of our shelters from a Stockton location this past week. Another report states Los Angeles County shelters are possibly expecting an influx of dogs from out of state - and Mexico - before the end of the year. If true, what does this say about the California pet 'overpopulation' HSUS is so fond of trumpeting? Are we recovering from that issue?

When, by the way, is Sacramento County Animal Control going to turn in that report on shelter intake and outgoes that it promised to give the Board of Supervisors in the early 1990's - and again earlier this year?

Freedom is NOT free. This weekend we honor those men and women who sacrificed their ordinary lives to fight in America's battles. Bless them every one - and the families they left behind. Thanks to them, we have the freedom to create blogs like this, and to own the pets we wish to own.

In Beijing province in China as of this week it's illegal to own more than one dog. It's also illegal to produce more than one child. Are we heading that direction? Is that what our veterans have and are fighting for? Tell me - is it really constitutional to limit the number of pets one can own, if each one's needs are provided for?