What Do I Want to be When I Grow Up?
What do I want to be when I grow up? A question we only think of asking our children. Don’t get me wrong, I love my job with Bordas & Bordas, but I feel I missed something along the way in my life of 51 years and that is helping animals (mostly dogs). I wanted to be a vet or a nurse, but I’m not that great with blood and guts. Being dyslexic and not being a bookworm was the real killer for me. The thought of reading something wrong or giving too much or not enough meds always scared me. I hope in my later years I can do my best to be the voice of reason on why people should spay and neuter their pets, help dogs who are chained outside to dog boxes, tires, etc. I want them to have a life off a chain - I want to help STOP dog fighting and help older dogs that were put in shelters because their families could not take the time to care for them due to cancer or just old age. I want them to live out their last days loved and cared for like they should be. I would do my best to help them cross over with one last look of a loving caring human before they shut their eyes and head over the Rainbow Bridge.
I have strong feelings toward the aforementioned and here is why:
Spaying and neutering: Why?
To help stop the over population of animals that end up in our shelters or running on our streets. Spaying and neutering also helps them live longer lives and helps them stop roaming. Just a few facts. This list could go on and on.
Dogs living on chains, tires or dog boxes: Why would anyone do this to a dog?
If you can’t love them like your own child or interact with them on a daily basis other than to feed and water them, then why have them at all? Living on a chain hooked to a dog box, tree or tire is just insane to me. I’ll never understand this.
Dog Fighting: Why would anyone want to teach a dog to fight to the death?
If I need to explain this to anyone, then they are the problem. It’s an awful thing for me to even think about. When the dog doesn’t win, the owners are known to do awful things that, most of the time, leads the dog to death. What’s wrong with people?
Taking care of senior dogs/ terminally ill dogs:
If I could, I would love to open a hospice for dogs (volunteers would be needed). Too many dogs are taken to the shelter because people don’t want to care for their aging friends or because they don’t want to deal with the expense of an aging, or a terminally ill dog. This dog has done nothing but love you unconditionally and still will even after you walk out that door at the shelter. All dogs do go to Heaven no matter what people have told me. I’ve lost some very special dogs over the years, and I know they hung around the house for a few extra days before they headed to the rainbow bridge just to make sure I would be okay. That is true love and devotion. Why would you not want to do the same for them?
With this being said, please think before getting what is supposed to be your “furever friend.” It is truly a life long commitment for them and you.
Rock on, Bordas dog nation, rock on.
