Since my divorce, I have learned so much about myself. I've learned that my tribe is in those more compassionate. Animal rescue folks are the type that best understand me. But those with a liberal bent truly are the ones who make me feel welcome. Since moving back to Sacramento, I have really become settled in to volunteering at the City of Stockton's animal shelter. Tara and Katt, my two main contacts at the shelter are so good working with me to find dogs that I can work with. They have made it abundantly clear that the videos that I do, do in fact make a difference. Sometimes, they don't always result in a dog getting adopted from the shelter, but there are many times that Rescue's see dogs that I have worked with and pull the dogs into their programs, thereby saving the dog from possible euthanaisia.
Tara is a very special person. Not only is the main person that I work with, but she is always working her job, many hours of the day, way outside her 8 to 5 job. And even when she is injured, she is always casting her injuries aside and pitching in. She has a gentleman in her life who has a disability and she is always trying to help him out as well. Recently, she put out a call on Facebook, looking for someone with a wheelchair that she could have to give her loved one the mobility that he needs. No one answered the call. I KNOW how much energy and money she puts into saving the dogs, and I could not help myself, so I bought them a wheelchair to help them out.
Remi has a new vet, and his name is Dr. Matt and he and his wife launched their own veterinary practice and he is a wonderful person and vet. His wife Carolyn is simply amazing as well. They also founded a non-profit that takes care of the medical needs of the animals that come into the Shelter.
I truly feel honored to know so many wonderful people involved with the Stockton Animal shelter.
If you have read some of my previous posts, you know that I've become good friends with my friend Ally. She is a smart, gorgeous woman who has truly made me feel like I am someone that she trusts. I had such an abysmal dating record in High School and College, and then with my wife never feeling like she 100% trusted me (or anyone for that matter), I was really doubting myself. Well, over the last two years that Ally and I have been close, I now better understand that it wasn't that I wasn't trustworthy, I just didn't understand that I was trustworthy. Ally truly helped me to feel trusted and valued.
Ally and I started a non-profit called Pit Saver Productions, and while she has not had the bandwidth to help out with the non-profit as much as she and I probably had hoped, she and I are still good friends. Every year, her dad goes on a long camping trip to Yellowstone, and Ally goes up to her dads to take care of his dogs while she is gone. This year, while she was up caring for her dads dogs, I went up to Shelton Washington for a long weekend to visit Ally, and check out the area. Here is a little video about the trip.
Safe travels all,
Remi and Eric too!
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