ROAD TRIP!!

Hi All -

I suppose you're all "paws"- ing and waiting to see what today's blog will be about, hmmm? My first foster dog seems to be off to a successful start (didn't get any phone calls at 3:00am) and I'm down to my own dogs, cats and children. I could write for days on any of those topics.

So, a Road Trip you say. I'm pretty sure it's the same for every 20 year old. Pack up as many clean pair of unders as you have, empty your bank account and head out on the open road in your best friend's mom's green Buick LaSabre. Occasionally, there may be a little alcohol involved but certainly not until you and your best friend are 21. Of course this little "tail" is purely hypothetical - no ring of truth here, friends.

But here we are fast forwarded a couple of years beyond 20 and looking at our lives everyday and wondering if there is more out there to make your heart feel good. Sure we've got our jobs, our kids, we go to church but yet, there is something else you need.

I could throw in here that fostering is good. No, fostering is NO GOOD for you, you say, could NEVER do that. Too hard to give the dog up, you say. I understand. One look into those big browns and wow, how can you let that go? We went into it with the understanding that these dogs are here to find new homes and they do. But those of us who are blessed with kids know it's the same thing. You only get to hold them for a little while. You've got to train them to succeed and then you let 'em go!

Now before we all get all mushy, let me get to the point of today's blog. Your heart says you can't foster but it still says that you need to do something. This is where the ROAD TRIP comes in.

Raise your hand if you have a map, money for a couple tanks of gas and a large vehicle - oh, and a desire to be on the open road is good too! Ok - good, good, I see a few hands out there. Anybody want to go to Indiana? Kentucky? Tennessee? You in the back in the green shirt, would you like to take a couple days, load up your cd player and head to Alabama?

It could be like a secret, only not so secret, spy escapade. Your mission, should you choose to accept it is to drive your large vehicle to a specified location and bring back the...the....hmmm....oh, let's call them "dogs in crates" for the security of the mission's sake, "dogs in crates", come back to Wisconsin and rendevous at a specified location. Let's say its one of those chain petstores, just to keep the story rolling, and deliver your "dogs in crates" to their foster parents. At which time, the "dogs in crates" will be given a thorough cleansing, given medicine (again, more super secret spy lingo) and sent on to wait for their "furever" home. While the "dog" is waiting at it's foster home, it will be loved and cared for by someone, like me (or even you, too), who has such an over-active imagination that I'm not allowed to watch super scary movies any more because it ruins camping trips.

Whad'd'ya say? Anybody out there have a desire to do a "Thelma & Louise" (just for you JS). Minus the guns, the romance and the untimely human death at the end. Just switch out guns for dogs, romance for that endorphin raising experience that makes you feel oh, so good, and switch out the untimely death part with SAVING A DOG'S LIFE.

I'd do this myself but I can't be in a vehicle for more than two hours or I go stark raving mad! We drove to Superior a couple summers ago - yeah, it was a SEVEN HOUR DRIVE, then we had to come home at the end of the week. UGH! I spent a couple hours in the back with the kids watching some crazy Disney movie. Please, don't make me do the drive. There's got to be one or two of you out there, heck, you could probably go together, make a new friend, you'd have time to talk, that's for sure!

Here's what I want you to do. If you feel the desire to help out without too much commitment, but with a HUGE BENEFIT, send me an email at iwannahelpdoggies@gmail.com. I'll pass along your info to our director, Lori and get you on the road.

Without caring drivers, the dogs we are able to rescue are just dogs waiting to be rescued.

Please consider this wonderful volunteer opportunity - heck, it's warm in Alabama, that's motivation right there. The more transports we have, the more dogs we save.

Thank you for thinking rescue, please bookmark this blog and pass it on!

And that's my story for today!