I TALK TO A FEW RESCUED FARM ANIMALS
I GET BIT BY A GOOSE & THEN MAKE FRIENDS.

JUSTICE IS A VERY GOOD FRIEND OF MINE. HE KNOWS BASIC COMMANDS (SIT, DOWN, STAY, FREE, LEAVE IT, COME, WAIT) THIS IS WRITTEN BY HIS PEOPLE:

We love this dog! He has been a part of our family for almost two years and we wish we could keep him! We are expecting our first baby, live in a small space with a tiny yard and just can’t give Justice what he needs. He needs a larger space with more room to explore and someone who can give him lots of exercise.
Justice is a 60lb Bassett Hound mix who loves all people and most other dogs. He knows basic commands. He loves to play with his tennis ball and enjoys tug-of-war. He loves to go to the beach and the dog park. He has lots of energy and needs daily exercise, lots of love and attention. He is really just a 60lb lap dog!
Justice will make a great addition to your life. He is loving, protective, fun, energetic and silly.

If you are interested please contact:
Tim @ 805-453-6171

JUSTICE SAYS, "I want another dog to play with, but not one that slobbers in the water bowl and place with different boxes of snacks."

Laura: Do you know why your family has to find you another home?

Justice: I know it is not because they do not love me. My mom and dad are very sad about it. I think it is because I take up so much room and I need more space. I also think it is because there is a baby coming and it will take up even more space. It is so sad that I have to leave my home, but my mom and dad know what is best for me and if they think this is the best thing than it is. It is sad to think I will not wake up to them everyday.

Laura: You people love you and they feel that someone else can give you more time. What do you want your new people to be like?

Justice: I want my new people to be happy to see me every time they come home. I want them to smell nice. I want them to know that I like little pieces of everything that they eat. I want them to know that I like the beach, but I don’t like my belly to have sand on it when I come home. I like to be wiped down with soft towel after I have been in the water. I want my people to love to be active. I love to go places. I don’t like to sit home all day long. But I have learned to stay home if I need to. I am not depressed; I would just rather see the world. I love when people pet me and look into my eyes and tell me how wonderful I am. So many people I meet love the way I look. I wonder if I could find a human with short legs and a long body. Then everyone would love the way both of us look. I like woman and men. Bicycles scare me a little bit because their wheels make me dizzy.

Laura: What are you thoughts about how sometimes a home is not the right home for a dog?

Justice: I think that I have it pretty good and my people have taught me to trust my people and to look to them for love and teachings. So I think that if my people say it could be better it must be really amazing in a new home. My mom and dad love each other so much and Spirit (other dog in house) and I love each other too, but we do not love each other the way mom and dad do. We get annoyed with each other. Which makes us both a little down. So if I found another friend who truly loves me than I can believe that I could be even happier.

Laura: Can you tell me more about you and Spirit’s relationship?

Justice: Sure, she is my big sister and at first I loved her and she hated me. Now she likes me. She likes to watch me run and she likes to watch the way I move my body. She thinks I am humorous, but she doesn’t think that I am smart. She thinks that I am a pain to the family. She says I don’t learn fast enough and I should pay closer attention. I think I do a very good job at paying attention so when Spirit tells me that I get really sad. I try really hard. She tells me I am bad and that mom and dad should leave me at the park and go home with out me. I know they would never do it and I know that she is joking, but it makes me sad that she thinks I don’t belong in the family. She says I am different from her. It’s hard, because I never feel good enough.
I know they love me, but I want to feel good enough all the time. So I guess that is what I want most out of my new people. I want to fit in. I am a really good boy. I really am.

I love this dog. Anyone who adopts him gets a free pet-psychic / training session.

Please contact Tim @ 805-453-6171 for more information on Justice

Georgia is a 2 yr. old spayed female blond Shepherd mix, 59 lbs. She is great with dogs and very shy with people. Her first owner was a dog hoarder. There were over a hundred dogs at her home. Georgia is now awaiting a person and home at DAWG in Santa Barbara. Their website is http://www.sbdawg.net. They are located at 5480 Overpass Rd. 
Santa Barbara, CA 93111. Please take a trip and go and meet her.

Here is an interview that I have done with Georgia. She is a very special dog. She is smart, attentive, and comes to people for safety. If you decide to give Georgia a try she comes with a free dog training/pet psychic session. She needs someone who is patient and is willing to give her time to settle in.

Laura, pet psychic: Can you tell me a little bit about where you came from?

Georgia: There were a lot of dogs. They would die often and we never knew when it was our time to die. We knew that death started with a terrible pain in the stomach. Sometimes a dog would think it was dying and then it would have babies.

L: How did you handle living with so many dogs?

G: All the mean dogs slept in the middle of the day so that was the best time to play. At night and in the early morning I had a really good place to hide. When they would feed us. A man would fling an open big bag of kibble over his head. I would wait until the kibble slid under a chair and in a corner. I would eat there.

L: How do you feel about people now?

G: I love people. Though I am really scared they are going to pull me close and hurt me. I know that some people would never do that. I love to be stroked. It makes me feel like I am safe. I liked to be scratched behind my ears. I love it when people tell me I am good. I want to learn more, but I am scared. I always had to learn myself. It would be nice if a person could teach me something. I also want to learn to play with a ball. I would love a person who doesn’t get upset if I get scared. I think they need patience. Oh and I don’t want them to get scared of me because I am scared. It is funny how that happens.

L: Anything else you want to say?

G: Sometimes other dogs bark and I do not agree with it. Sometimes they bark to be mean and that is inappropriate. It is time for me to leave the shelter. It is not that I don’t like it here. I just don’t feel like I belong here anymore. I can feel there is a very special person that will love me and understand me. If you tell people about me, tell them I want to change and be brave. Tell them I know that having the desire to be a companion is important. I am ready to have a home.

Because of BUNS (click here for their website), a deeper understanding of bunnies has rooted inside of me. I have learned through talking to the rabbits at Bunny festival and at the shelter just how conscious and intelligent rabbits truly are. I hate to admit this but for some reason, in my younger years, the rabbits in my household always seem to come last. I loved them for their cuteness and their soft fur, but I did not respect them like I do today. My childhood rabbit, Forgery, was won during an Easter Fair at my elementary school by forging my parents’ signature on a raffle ticket. He lived down in the barn in a deluxe hutch my father had a master carpenter build. Knowing now how much exercise a bunny needs it makes me sick to think how long Forgery lived in that hutch. I let him out only once a week to run in the pastures amongst the horses. When it was time to catch him he would run to me, let me pick him up for hugs and kisses and then jump out of my arms for another hour romp. Then came Sera, then Boomer, then Noah and Grace and now Bunny Bean. I was a bad bunny mom. Sera went to go live somewhere else when my wolf came into the family and wanted to eat her for a snack. Boomer had to live at Doggie Day Care when I had a rental crisis, Noah and Grace were happier with some one else and now Bunny Bean is making me live a living amends to my prior bunnies. Boomer was the easiest of all my bunnies. He got along with everyone and always went to the bathroom in the litter box. He had a room of his own but mostly had free range of the house. He was perfect. Bean is very smart, but can be extremely mischievous. She demands a huge pen in my small house. She bribed me with the agreement that if she has the large comfy ottoman in her pen she will not scale out. She shreds any electrical wire she can spot exposed. She chews books and curtains and digs elaborate tunnels in the yard. When I try to communicate my frustrations with her behavior she argues that I do not know bunnies. Though we have made progress. She no longer bites me, she enjoys snuggling, takes naps on top of my wolf and comes when she is called (If I have her favorite treats).
Each of my rabbits has taught me something about the way rabbits think and live in the world. The rabbits at BUNS give me a completely different perceptive and expand my knowledge of bunnies.
At the first Bunny Festival I worked, a rabbit told me, “Thank my person for talking to me from a distance every night. I loved seeing the Eiffel Tower.” It amazed me when the woman told me she had just come back from France.

Last month I spoke to some Bunnies that are up for adoption at the BUNS shelter. Here are some of the things they said that astounded me.

Sugar said, “Sometimes outside you follow a smell and then you look up and think, ‘I shouldn’t be right here”. I didn’t know that rabbits follow smells.

Skittles said, “I bite when I feel people are not paying attention. I do not like it when their eyes are not focused. If they want to handle me they should be focused on me. I feel it is dangerous when someone is thinking about two things at once.” This is such a basic concept that people forget about when they are handling animals. For animals that are so in tune with nature it makes sense that they would feel more secure if people handled them with concentrated awareness.

Leo was very frightened of me. When I asked why he told me, “I am scared of people because I do not want to be made into bunny stew, to be skinned for my fur or have someone put something bad in my eyes” This broke my heart. The bunnies listen to everything we say around them. It is important not to joke or talk about bunny abuse around the rabbits. Leo didn’t know that his future wouldn’t come to harsh treatment.

Lyla has been watching Andrea the bunny trainer work the bunnies. She says, “I am not a stupid cute rabbit, I am an athlete. I want to learn to jump through hoops, run through tunnels and pick things up.” Not only do rabbits need exercise but they need mental stimulation as well.

Trudy says, “I want a different cage every week. I get bored of the scenery.” Some bunnies need variations. I was told Trudy digs tunnels after she said; “I think that I could solve everybody’s major problem in just one week. I would tell them to dig a hole, put their problems in a hole and come back in a week to see if it is still there.” This is the best advice I have heard in a long time.

Bunnies also have a sense of humor. When I told Melissa that the volunteers think she has an attitude she replied, “You know salt blocks? Those volunteers that say I have an attitude have salt blocks in their head.” She added, “I don’t want any one to dislike me. I want to be friends with everyone.”

What I have learned from all my bunnies and the rabbits at BUNS is that they are intelligent, funny, and need my full attention when handling them. Because they do not bark like a dog or are able to roam freely outside like a cat they are commonly mistaken for not being intelligent. Bean has reminded me that if I put the time into her, like I would a new puppy, she too can be free around the house and well behaved. They need just as much are attention as the other animals. The bunnies are so pure in their spirit and amaze me every time I open my eyes to watch, understand and talk to them.

IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ADOPTING A RABBIT PLEASE GO TO BUNS. CLICK HERE FOR THEIR WEBSITE

BEAN, MAIA & STORM

BULLET SAYS, “Sometimes, I just think it would be better if I died. I am terrified of not having anyone love me again. I am confused, but learning how to trust again. I want my own person. I want to learn to be socialized. I feel like spirit is disappearing. I want to be a peace. If someone adopts me I promise to listen and try hard to understand. I promise to be calm. Please find someone for me. I cannot go on any longer the way I am. I realize now that not everyone suffers like I do. I don’t want to suffer anymore.”

OPI SAYS, “I am starting to see what true love is. I think that they way Bullet and I lived was wrong of our people. I cannot believe that our days were filled with so many traumas when days can be peaceful and fun. I want to learn to forgive and I want to learn how to sleep in the sun with out worry something bad will happen. I think I need a special person to love me. And Bullet needs someone too.”

These two dogs that are desperately in need of either a foster home or home for life. They need to be placed separately. My friend who is facilitating the adoption writes, “They have had it rough. They've been severely neglected and lack necessary training. They are six yr. old chocolate Lab/Dobie brothers, and at birth Opi was sickly. They are third generation of a mother, who died at 12, giving birth to them. Bullet would commandeer the food. Fighting ensued. Their human parents did not intervene. They grew up tearing each other apart and Opi, starving, became fear aggressive. A fence was built down the center of the yard and they were kept mostly separate. Bullet was kept in house more and received more of the attention and food. They are relatively unsocialized. Yet, they both passed the Santa Ynez Humane Society Behavior Evaluation Test with flying colors in September 2008. They were neutered at that time. Opi likes boarder collies and toy dogs. He has a tendency to fight with in-tack males, big dogs and dogs charging towards him out of fear. He is still learning another dog may instigate play by running up and has improved immensely. Bullet can get along with other dogs, but is fearful also. He lives with another large size dog presently. He is not leash trained, but will start lessons with a trainer at the end of Dec. 2008. (Bullet is very frightened of his future and is not safe in his current foster situation. He is very handsome and needs a dog savvy person to help him recover from his background. Both Bullet and Opi have fear aggression as a result of childhood trauma and neglect over time. Both, dogs get along with cats. Both are starved for affection and are very loving! Athletic and yet, the Dad worked construction 7 days a week. So, Opi if got out, it was only to ride to a job site to be tied up or sit in the car. They've never been walked. Opi has been working on his leash training. They like riding in the car, but get very excited. The reason they are homeless is that their people have both suddenly died. “

If you would like more information on Bullet and Opi please contact Jen at tel: 805.455.0001 email: sbtoothfairy@aol.com

"There is nothing I want more than to live with someone who I can be with all the time. I want to be to able to cuddle with my person. I also don't want to make my person sick with allergies"

Dear Laura,

I have a severe problem with my cat Ziggy. In the last two weeks she has crapped on my bed twice, crapped on the kitchen floor, and peed on the kitchen counter. She has access to outside 24/7 by way of the dog door. Here's the deal----I'm not interested in working with this cat. She has given me asthma. When I pet her, she loves it but when I pull my hand away she'll bite me. So I can't really give her to some little old lady. The bottom line is she has given me asthma. Do you want her? She hates other cats so I can't give her to the shelter. What should I do?

Sincerely, Stan

Micah is a very special Mustang. He is involved in a program called Extreme Mustang Makeover with his trainer Kathe Smothers.

Kathe was having problems getting him to do lateral movements. When I asked him about it he said, "She's asking one side of my body to speed up and one side of my body to slow down and she just doesn't understand that that is physically impossible."

When I asked Micah what he thought of Kathe he said, "Naaa I don't like her at all, of course I like her, she gave me my life."

May you find wisdom and humor in the thoughts and feelings of these animals.

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