Resolutions are for the unresolved

This year I resolve to make no New Year’s resolutions. Why bother? Either I’m going to do the things or I’m not – and if I am, I don’t need to make any special resolutions about them, much less… oh wait. That first sentence is a resolution, isn’t it.

Yeah, and this late in the game is no time to be making resolutions, because it’s the last-minute ones that get broken first.

Okay, moving on. I’m sure you are more interested in critter reports.

Latest news: Sadie has joined the Strand family. She’s a 9 year old dog that could be part… well, who knows what. My heartstrings got tugged when I saw her on Great Spirit Animal Sanctuary’s website, which I never should have allowed myself to be looking at. My original impulse was to foster her. Silly me. I mean, it’s not as if fostering has worked for me in the past – I always ended up adopting because no way was any foster dog of mine going to someone else.

Walks are non-negotiable

Sadie, who was rescued from the Snowflake-Taylor Animal Control Shelter two days before Christmas, had gone through relocation five times on the way to that shelter. None of it was about Sadie. Her original owner died in 2022, then she went through four more homes, then the Snowflake-Taylor shelter, before Great Spirit Animal Sanctuary pulled her out of there and posted the photos. The rest is history.

I was going to foster. Yeah. I met up with Tedi in a parking lot in Springerville just four days ago, and the moment I saw Sadie I was ready to sign adoption papers. As you can see from the photos, she is settling in quite well.

Sadie & Poppy snoozing

Meanwhile, my kittens are now five months old. They haven’t seen a dog since Bubz died the middle of October. For kittens, those two and a half months are a long time. After four days they are still spooky enough to skeedaddle when Sadie makes a sudden move (like waking up and jumping off the futon sofa), but they’re both still attracted to this new dog in their lives. They want to be cuddle buddies but they’re just not quite sure yet.

I think it’s going to work out OK for those three. Outside at the barn, though, the two Ks are not so sure (that would be my horse, Koko, and goat, Katie). But then, Sadie isn’t hanging out in the barn all day and night, so those relationships will take more time to develop.

No resolutions necessary.

Happy New Year to all.
May the human beings of Earth resolve to work out their differences, aim for peace, then follow through.