nov 21

I had a snooze problem... it turns out that I'm working very nicely between four and six in the morning and then I get sleepy and this morning what I did was to start a spreadsheet of all the places we have visited between last July and now and it turns out we have seen 2389 people. The most telling visit was the last one which was one Janine and Judy did alone and they went to an adult care center and the people were very active ----the dogs did take it--- they were good but sizzle ducked under  the nearest table as her solution to the whole problem

 the letter we got from the director begging us to come even on a weekly basis because she saw the effect that the animals had not only her population but her staff ----it really there's a tremendous need and it can't just be anybody's pet dog either I mean even according to Janine larkey who loves people in general he stood he stood his grounds but some of these people are extremely active and inclined to grab and snatch,,, which is why of course we do not leave a collar or a leash on any of our dogs because that would just be an invitation for disaster umm -----they're better off loose and can take can run if they need to some of these places are tough. I do think that we can help that facility,.... but I do think maybe our better animal would be donkeys they are so tolerant that I really would like to go there and see whether the physical plant could cope with getting a donkey up the stairs and into the place um Janine and Judy both thought that if we do go back with dogs that we can't serve the whole population at one time because it's just too much 

but somehow I remember driving the 8 donkeys in Haverhill MA

 

I was to start at the fire station...  where they had given me a police cruiser--- the object was to follow the cruiser with my 8 hitch with the antlers and Santa Claus up to the center of town where Santa Claus would get down and give everybody a candy cane and I would leave.. well it didn't work that way I started up into the center of town everybody got out of the way in the cruiser but they cut in behind it in front of the donkeys and actually made us stop ----we---- I could not move I had children under my cart tangled up in the  wheels in between the donkeys they just were climbing all over everything and those blessed donkeys just stood there and took the whole thing---- a policeman came back out of his cruiser to see how I was surviving but it just was a zoo and the donkeys took it.  mostly because of basic instinct of a donkey if he's frightened it's to stand still and try and figure out how to get out of the problem without moving this is a lot easier to handle in many situations and donkeys are known for being extra so patient that I think I would like to try a donkey in that in that facility

 

here's here's where it's not quite just a tank of gas a week that I need but I need to find a ramp but I need I need to make sure the trailer is working and it now is having had two repairs jobs one an upgrade for $1000 and the other for 375 to put a hitch on the front so there are those kind of expenses that I do have but there are those expenses that make it possible for me to do these difficult jobs even to the point of maybe selecting or training an animal there could cope better with some of these things so actually that's where I was ----that's where I am this morning drinking my second cup of coffee trying to figure out what to do next and that may include asking Bill Cummings to help us he's been very nice in the past but  we did not have enough local contact for him well now we do have local.

i am working in the direction of a complete oganization-  i do not think there are 2 people more equipt than janine and i  with the animal episode background to try and help this situation...

let us pray/