The most amazing thing to me about animals with no home, that thank God never gets old, is their trust. Incredible trust. There we were today, and I have marveled at this before, taking dogs out of their cages, they are with TOTAL strangers, we are putting them in a van or TOTAL strangers’ cars, and they wiggle, wag, give kisses, and 100% trust us. Then we drove them, happy, looking out the window – HEY!! Where we going?? I’m so excited to be with you (whoever you are!) and I love you so much!! You are the best!!!! Honestly, I think of when my son was a toddler but talking, he’s in the backseat in his car seat and he says-“mom!! You look scared, you look worried.” I look in the rear view mirror at his beautiful face and then look at my face in the mirror and see the look he’s talking about. Realizing my mind is a million miles away I bring myself back to where I belong. I thought about that moment with my son today when I was very stressed, worrying about the dogs I was transporting, worrying about the Pitt game, always worrying about bills/money, and this little Lucy I had riding shotgun leaned over and put her head on the side of me. She stayed there – I cried knowing that she not only trusted me, but she was already “on to me.” If she could talk like my son, she would have said the same thing he did-instead she just got close and made me come back to reality.

Dogs are amazing. Humans did one thing right by creating the domesticated dog. They saved me from despair and dark times, they love me no matter what, they want to love everyone, they want to please you. I love them so much, I am amazed daily at them. I’m so fortunate to be able to work with them, to get them into loving homes, to help educate people on how they can have a better experience with their own dogs.

I know this is long, it’s just thoughts that I have, if you got this far thanks for letting me share my thoughts about dogs. They will never cease to amaze me, incredible beings. Trust.