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Just got back from my very favorite place in the whole wide world! West Lebanon Feed and Supply that is, owned by two of my very favorite people, Sharon and Curt Jacques. I'm styling my new neck ware (and my old collar, I can't decide which one to wear).
Seriously though, without identification I could wander away and never find my family again. Tags are so important and so is a microchip. Homeagain, the company that my dad uses for microchips says that 1 in 3 pets goes missing during its lifetime, and without identification 90% never return home. I love wearing my collar but I also have a microchip in case my collar falls off.
The ASPCA claims that many of the strays brought to humane societies are actually lost pets. Approximately 5 to 7 million companion pets enter humane societies each year in the United States, and 3 to 4 million (60% of dogs, and 70% of cats) are euthanized according to the ASPCA. What if your pet wanders away without any identification on let alone permanent identification such as a microchip and is brought to a humane society.......
become stylish my friends....
Tata for now

Midnight Sunflowers and DogRunDog

Yooo. So what a busy week this has been. Mom still found time to go out and photograph sunflowers in the dark! She is obsessive about photography. It is like living with the paparazzi!

So we all just got back from DogRunDog and wow am I tired. The S.A.V.E.S. crew teamed up with Stoneybrook Vet. Hospital to provide medical staff for the race. My mom rode a bike and watched for injured pets or their people. Dad ran with me.

Dad and I came in 6th for the 5K run. Mom says we probably would have come in 1st or at least 2nd if I hadn't stopped at every mailbox (what do they expect, I just learned to lift my leg) or kept veering off into the ditch.

My friend Doogan ran with Alistar, Dr. Padgett's boyfriend from Scotland, or Glasgow or something like that. Sophie tried to explain that it was way far away, across a big pond! He is really nice and I was so happy to see Doogan!

El and Petunia walk/ran the course! The staff from S.A.V.E.S. only had one patient to care for the whole day! That's right, PETUNIA! I was sad she hurt herself, but it seemed a little funny that of all the 100 dogs that participated, a S.A.V.E.S. dog was the one injured. Petunia scraped up her back feet running on the pavement. She says "I'm a lady and my feet are very delicate". A lady my foot, you should hear her belch after every meal!

Well mark your calendar for next year, this was a really good time and raised much needed money for the Lucy Mackenzie Humane Society . TaTa for now!