So far I’ve received 373 postcards and countless other commitments for submissions! I estimate that if all the postcards arrive from the folks who have requested my mailing address for hard copies, we’ll be close to 500!
This is awesome progress! But I’d like to throw out another challenge: This week, I’d like to challenge you to post a link to the postcard page or the Oh My Dog! Facebook page on your Facebook page. If we could each get at least one friend to create a postcard, that will more than double our current total! Heck, many of you have several thousand followers on Twitter! Let’s see if we can double the postcards this week! Light up those networks!! I know we can do it! I’ll post the next status update one week from today.
And now for a little inspiration… I received nearly 100 postcards from fourth and fifth graders in North Carolina. A very special dog named Gunny taught these kids about pit bulls, and their messages are so incredibly heartfelt. I shared a few of the fifth grade postcards already, but here are some of the fourth graders’ along with a couple postcards received from other children across the U.S. (Click on the photos to enlarge.)
You have to love kids! This law is the most ridiculous thing!
Thanks for all our work!
And again, I’m sitting here all “leaky.” Those children are wise beyond their years. The one from Amanda really got to me. It’s so simple. Look at dogs like we look at people – as individuals. Thank you for sharing those with us!
Amber
Oh, I know. It was nearly impossible to select just a few to scan and post. More will be coming in the future because there were just too many good ones. I read something a long time ago (can’t remember where) that children have a “simplistic” vision. Reading these postcards, I think that’s wildly inaccurate. I think they have a clear vision, unspoiled so far by prejudice, the evening news, high school, etc. I’m loving every single one of these postcards for their honest inspiration!
Way to go kiddoes, you make me and Gunny proud! I’m very thankful to these guys’ principal who welcomed Gunny into their school with open arms. And to the teachers who have been so supportive of all of Gunny’s endeavors. And to these fantastic kids who I know will take all that they have learned about animal rescue and pitbulls and do great things. I love you kids!!!!xoxo
You should be so proud of Gunny, Amy! I know I am! He has made such a huge and tremendous impact on those kids’ lives. Thank you for all that YOU do!
Oh wow. I will say that often when I see kids involved in political situations it leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Kids carrying signs. Kids wearing t-shirts. Kids clapping wildly when politician X walks across the stage when they have absolutely no idea (nor should they) about the debate/fight/nonsense at hand.
But.
Kids have an incredible, pure and genuine sense of fairness. What I read in those postcards was an expression of what is fair and what is not. They give reasons for why they feel putting a pitbull to sleep is wrong.
Aside from the fact that I already agree with them- it is their poignant sense of “fair” that tugs at my heart strings. We already know it’s wrong. Denver already knows it’s wrong.
And just in case we didn’t know: the kids said it plainly for us.
I love your point about fairness, Shauna. They totally get it, and I think it is that super genuine approach to life!
I love this! Going to tweet about it to my 1000′s of followers right now.
The kids have the clearest point of view. Right or wrong. That’s it. No reasons, no excuses, no maybes or what ifs… Just wrong.
Awesome work!
Thank you so, so much, Dorian! I really appreciate it!