You Folks Are The Best....

...4 Legged Love e-mailed me to thank me (and all of you) for helping defray the costs of Sasha's care. Apparently, between Deviant Art, MysSPace, and my Yahoo Group, we were all able to raise over $1900! Over 150 people donated!

I cannot thank you people enough!

If anyone wants to check on Sasha, the link is:

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It's really nice that so many people cared enough to donate, or wanted to but are suffereing from the current economic hardship. Life's rough (get a helmet!) but as long as some people care to help others in need, then mankind will always deserver the oxygem it uses up!

I DO have a thing or two to say for the people with whom I crossed words over the subject of helping a dog over helping a person...

First, I never asked anyone to take money away from any human in need and divert it to a dog. I only asked for help from people who could spare a buck.

Second, aiding ANY living creature in need is a laudible endeavor. Dogs, especially, because any dog worth saving could end up in a home, and that home will be improved by having the unrequited love of a happy dog in it. So, people WILL reap the rewards of this small charitable enterprise.

Lastly, I just had an unpleasant experience with a human being in need. I was stopping at a restaurant to pick up dinner for Allison & myself. A man was standing in the only available parking space, picking up loose change from the ground. I assumed that he had dropped in it the dark; his cloth was not poor and he didn't look like a vagrant. Well, I wasn't even out of my car (once I parked), when he hit me with his tale of woe, about how he needed money for food, he had lost his job, could I please spare some change. Because I will always surrender spare change to your basic man on the street, I gave him a dollar. Because he saw the handful of cash I had (my 5s and 1s that I was buying dinner with), he took my dollar and said "Man, how about a five instead..?"

I was STUNNED. I told him NO, and that I needed the rest of the cash to buy my family dinner. He walked away without even thanking me for what I gave him.

So, PLEASE don't tell me that it's better to aid a human than it is a dog.

And PLEASE don't answer this post. I don't care to hear ANYONE'S differing opinion on the matter. You have the right to your opinion, but not on MY little corner of the Internet. Voice your poison eslewhere.

And if you DO have the time to post a differing point-of-view, I want everyone to look at your post and wonder how you could have used the time it took to write your dissenting opinion to better someone else's life. Instead of trolling, arguing, or just posting for the sake of seeing yourself gain attention, why not take that time and donate a dollar to cancer research. Or to a local homeless shelter. Or any other charitable establishment that is interested in your time & attentions.

END OF DISCUSSION.

Everybody be nice to each other.

-AH!-