Oh My Dog!

Lucas and Emmett, my darling shelter pups (who can't look the same direction EVER in any picture!)

I looked at all the caged animals in the shelter… the cast-offs of human society. I saw in their eyes love and hope, fear and dread, sadness, doom and betrayal. And I was angry. “God,” I said, “this is terrible! Why don’t you do something?” God was silent for a moment and then He spoke softly. “I have done something,” He replied. “I created you.”
– “The Animal’s Savior” by Jim Willis

I saw this on Rescue Ink’s Facebook page. In light of Monday’s post, I found it to be both moving and inspiring. Hopefully it inspires you, too!

I love this quote – and the postcard! Perfect little bit of inspiration for today!

Can you even stand this darling face??

“My doctrine is this: that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and we do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.”
– Anna Sewell, English Novelist

*Have you checked out Be the Change for Animals yet? I’m excited and honored that the Campaign to End BSL is the first featured project, but bookmark the site and check in weekly for simple steps you can take to help animals!

“The awful wrongs and sufferings forced upon the innocent, helpless, faithful animal race, form the blackest chapter in the whole world’s history.”
– Edward Freeman, English Freelance Historian and Journalist

Reminder: Help make a difference in the lives of innocent, helpless animals by participating in the Campaign to End BSL! Create a postcard, post the project on Facebook, tweet it. Every little bit helps!

Adorable, snuggly pit bull puppy image from melgupta.

“I examine the faces of the sleeping dogs beside me, the improbable nature of their existence, the short lives they live with an intensity unbearable to us.”
– Jim Harrison

“This you’ll call sentimental — perhaps — but then a dog somehow represents — no I can’t think of the word — the private side of life — the play side.”
– Virginia Woolf

“Life is life’s greatest gift. Guard the life of another creature as you would your own because it is your own. On life’s scale of values, the smallest is no less precious to the creature who owns it than the largest.”
– Lloyd Biggle Jr.

Cady and Lucas

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
– Mahatma Gandhi

Just a reminder: Don’t forget to enter to win one of two pet-safe cleaning product giveaways while helping the campaign to End BSL! You have until next Tuesday to enter!

Cousin Lucy

“Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.”
– George Eliot, Female English Novelist (Mary Ann Evans)

Emmett, hard at work

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
– Margaret Mead