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I'm back in Bellingham after a pleasant 24 hours at home on Orcas! I saw the doggies and Pater and Mater, ran around Mountain Lake, painted things gray for color and design class (so far very little to do with color), and went to the animal shelter.
Orcas animal shelter = SO great seriously it's pretty new and super nice. If I were a cat I wouldn't want to leave. Who needs adoption when you have a carpeted jungle gym and a cat-sized yard (where there are even more furry jungle gyms)?
There are teensy kittens abound at the moment (like seriously tiny kittens, think softball sized) because the humane society in Kent is closing because it is situated under a dam that is going to blow any minute so lady who runs the Orcas shelter called and asked if she could take any animals off of their hands and the answer was yes! 18 cats and 2 dogs! Hence the sea of kittens (if I had to drown I would do it there).
Also, majorly EFFED UP: King County is cutting all funding for animal control. I didn't know that animal control was a disposable service. Hmm... OH WAIT THAT'S BECAUSE IT'S NOT. If any thought went into this decision I see no evidence of it. Humane society or none, animals are abandoned, lost, found, and surrendered all the livelong day. Since when does not having animal control and a humane society erase the need for one? Since never, that's when. King county is a big place. Mondo. Gargantuan. That's a lot of felines and canines with no home, no help, and about a bazillion fleas.
What is going on?
Anyhoo, this Canine is very glad to have a home-- TWO homes!-- where the beds are warm, the jokes are bad, and the kibble is vegetarian.
Goodnight, everybody (and you too, universe, consider yourself officially tucked in)
Love x's 3, Franny