Heart Like a Dog

The Good, the Bad, and the Oh My God of living with dogs!

Wild Heart Ranch

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Blog the Change is an event, where bloggers from all over the globe focus on animal causes that are near and dear to our hearts.

Blog the Change

 

Today I’d like to shine the light on someone who works tirelessly in the field of animal rescue.  I’ve been following her efforts on my facebook page for the last few months.

Annette King Tucker is the owner and operator of a 10-acre ranch located in Claremore, Oklahoma.  Wild Heart Ranch is an animal sanctuary that rescues, and rehabilitates wild animals, who are injured by either natural causes or the cruelty of man.

Picture copied from Wild Heart Ranch Website.

Picture copied from Wild Heart Ranch Website.

 

I copied her mission statement from her website:

  • Provide medical or infant support to any indigenous wild animal in need of assistance and release it into suitable wild habitat once care is completed.
  • Refrain from imprinting the animal to its human caretakers during its stay in captivity
  • Educate the public about wild animals in our area and teach a genuine appreciation and respect of their needs and characteristics
  • Educate ourselves in the care and needs of each species that we experience so that all animals receive complete, professional and individual care
  • Maintain our facility in the most stringent of cleaning and organizational standards to prevent errors, disease, infection and hazards to both humans and animals
  • ALWAYS respond with patience when faced with ignorance and remember that not all the world has seen through our eyes or cared with our hands
  • Lend assistance, instruction or advice to anyone trying to assist a wild animal in need of care
  • NEVER cage a wild animal a day longer than necessary, and always euthanize if release will never come

On her facebook page she shares pictures of wild babies that have been brought to the ranch along with the circumstances surrounding their injury or illness.  The photos show staff tenderly caring for the delicate lives they’ve been intrusted with.

When she can’t save them, she will help them find peace and freedom from pain in the only way she knows how. That’s when you see her mad, especially if the injury has resulted from something evil, like a leg trap.

What I love about this woman is her passion.  Not only will she take in, help and rehabilitate any form of wildlife, but she works hard at educating the public. Her posts will explain to you why the cute orphaned deer should NOT be brought into your home and made into a family pet.

Wild Heart Ranch doesn’t normally take in cats and dogs, but they will assist them in other ways, or provide another resource to assist the animal.

Annette King Tucker talks the talk and walks the walk.

But she’s got a little problem, her wonderful ranch is quickly outgrowing the small ten acres that surround it. Recently 40 acres across the street from the ranch went on the market, Annette is working hard to raise the needed funds to purchase the land in order to expand the ranch.

She has a chip in widget on her website, and through her website you can connect with her on her social media sites.

I’m not asking you to donate money to WHR, I’m asking you to take a moment and check out Annette King Tucker and if you (like I) think she’s making a difference, can you please share her story.

Together we can be the change.

(Author’s note, the ‘cat’ you see in the left side of the picture is Kira, a cougar that had her claws removed by a man with a pair of wire snippers.   Annette rescued her and Kira lived her life at Wild Heart Ranch, until a few months ago when she passed away.)
(I did send a message to Annette asking her to contribute to this post, but she did not respond.  If she would like the picture to be removed I will do that. )

 

Monday Mischief

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Hubby’s alarm goes off during the week at 5:30 am.  He gets up and hops in the shower.  After he’s done showering he gets dressed, kisses me good-bye and heads to the kitchen.

Some mornings both dogs follow him and other mornings it’s just Delilah.  Sampson likes to lie in bed with me and snuggle.  (Well it’s more like I’m trying to snuggle but he wants his ears rubbed.)

My alarm goes off at 6:00 am. Most days I hit the snooze button so I get up about 6:15.  Once I’m up, I head into the kitchen to get the dog’s food ready, after it’s ready I place it in the microwave to help take the chill off it. (We feed raw….more on that in another post.)

After the dog’s food is ready, I go back in my room pick out my clothes and head for the bathroom.  At this stage Sampson is either on the bed or on the couch in the living room.  Delilah is normally on the bed.

If I exit the closet and Delilah is NOT on the bed, that means Mischief.

On rare occasions she brings her treasure into the bedroom, but most days she heads right for the living room rug.

Which is exactly where I found her.

Nom nom

Nom nom

 

It’s the creamer I used when I melted butter for my popcorn the night before.

Apparently I didn't get all the butter out.

Apparently I didn’t get all the butter out.

 

I had left it IN THE SINK.

I was slightly surprised that she carried a heavy creamer to the living room, and very grateful she didn’t drop it on the kitchen floor.  (She could have hurt herself!)

What does your fur baby do that surprises you?

Welcome to the Monday Mischief Blog hop, hosted by Alfie’s Blog, Snoopy’s Blog,  My Brown Newfies and Luna a Dog’s Life.

2013 Goals

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Since we’re already into the middle of January I thought it might be a good time to lay out my goals for the upcoming year.

I’m calling them goals, but in essence they’re more like guidelines, because this year I’m allowing my goals to be flexible and I’m not beating myself up if I don’t meet them.

You may need to remind me of this at some point if I start to have a melt down.

Blogging

I think my blogging goals will always be to post every day.  Granted some posts may be longer than others, but for me I need the discipline of posting every day.

I’d like to have more of my sense of humor show in my posts. Most of you don’t know this, but I’m actually fairly funny in real life.  For some reason I can’t seem to let it shine through in my posts.

A person can be serious AND funny right?  Or would that just be seriously funny?

Twitter

Oh Twitter, I want to love you, I really do.  I want to be able to use you, but what do you say on Twitter?  My niece who is quite the Twitterer, says it’s just like having a conversation, you think of something and you tweet it.

Yes, it’s true I do occasionally retweet a blog post, but for the most part, I don’t use it.

This year (like last year) I hope to learn how to tweet effectively.

I think for now, I might just stalk a couple of you on Twitter.

Other social media platforms.

There are so many social media platforms out there right now, that I honestly cannot keep up.  So for now what I intend on doing is I will strive to post at least once a week on Pinterest, I’ll check in on Triberr and see if I can figure that out.

Is there anything else that you are using that you think i need to know about?  If so, please let me know.

Writing

I still have a goal to get paid for writing, this is something I’ll be working on.

I’d also like to finish at least one of the two books I’ve started.  I actually like the book I wrote in November (during the NaNoWriMo challenge) better than I like the first one.  The problem is I over-dosed on it in November so once the challenge was over, I pulled the thumb drive and haven’t touched it since.

This year, I’d like to work on it a bit more, maybe get it to the stage where I can submit it.

Sampson and Delilah

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My goals for them will never change.  It will always be to give them the very best life I possibly can, to love and cherish them and enjoy the time we’ve been given.

Do you set goals for your blog, or yourself?  How do you measure whether they are successful or not?  Do you have any tips or goals you’d like to share?

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