All the Creatures

When this housing crisis first began a few years ago, I kept hearing horror stories of pets being left in foreclosed homes and found either dead or close to death by realtors weeks later. Pets have taken the brunt of this bad economy.

People who lost their jobs and then their homes have no resources left for their pets that they acquired years before and expected to keep them for the pet’s entire lifespan. Most pets rescues turned them away because they were overcrowded. Then some of the rescues had to shut their doors forever due to lack of donations. Rental homes and apartments would not allow pets or if they did they added a sizable cleaning fee to the deposit that someone who just lost about everything could not afford. So abandonment seemed like the only way to handle their pet situation.

Amidst all of this, I hear on tonight’s nightly news that there is a boom in spending on dogs. Where in the creation are these people getting their information from? Certainly not from those who are in charge of animal control in this country. Although I do see ads for Cape Cod rentals pet friendly that for $1500 a week you can take your dog with you but first add at least $300 in fees. Those places are not aimed toward the middle class income families but the more wealthy among us.

There seems to such extremes with this economy right now and our pets are the victims of it.

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Last night was one of those boring nights on TV. You know the type, 160 channels and nothing worth watching. So I began to channel surf. It was then I found a most unusual TV show called “Ratbusters.” It was a reality show about an extermination company in New York City. As I watched the show, it was interesting. The ratbusters were a bit entertaining. One of them didn’t like snakes and there was suppose to be one loose in the house. He spotted a  braided metal hose in the basement and almost flipped out. Then I discovered that the show was on Animal Planet! Since when does Animal Planet encourage the extermination of any creature? Ratbusters was something that might be shown on the Discovery Channel or even the Home channel but on Animal Planet?

Maybe I am overreacting but if that show is on Animal Planet what would be next? A fishing or hunting program? Wait, I think they do that already with Hillbilly Handfishin’ and Swamp Wars. Yes Animal Planet has started to dig up the dregs with reality TV. I guess all it has to have is an animal in the show somewhere for it to air on Animal Planet now. I can think of 100’s of better animal shows that they could do than what they are airing right now.

Come on Animal Planet………………….wake up.

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As an animal lover I am aware of the many animal rescues, therapy organizations and other non-profits that beg for donations. There is one therapy non-profit that seems to always be on a horse message board that I frequent. The Director of the place is Kari Ann Owen. She is either looking for horses or trying to find retirement homes for the horses that they have used up. At least that is the way it seems. She also has shown, in her posts on the message board that she is trying to get involved in her “students” jumping the horses but has no training in jumping nor knowledge in choosing the right horses for the work.

Since she frequently posts the name and web URL of her non-profit I thought I would finally check her out. Her website is at www.freewildhorse.com and is called “Wildhorse.” On that page she gives herself the title of Dr. Kari Ann Owen, Ph.D, which sounds good on paper. But what is she a doctor in? Yes I found that out too, and it is not on the Wildhorse website. I Googled her name and found lots and lots of stuff. First she is a doctor of religion. Her personal website is at www.kariannowen.com and she shares a lot, maybe too much. Her writings on her abusive sexual encounters with her father and her journey into the bondage culture was a bit more than I wanted to know about her.

Yes I know that people do like to use titles added to their names just to promote things. I also know that I don’t like it when people use it to mislead others. Throwing that Ph.D on that horse therapy page makes it sound like she is highly qualified to run an organization like that. What she should do is add on that page what the Ph.D was earned in. It would make her sound more honest to those whom she is begging donations from.

Like I mentioned before, I Googled her name and found out she is a prolific writer with a passion about writing about her life and the mess it was in. Reading her writings made me question if this older woman (she is in her late 60’s to early 70’s) has it all together upstairs. She has some rather odd perceptions of life and not many of them are main stream. I found this rather odd piece that she wrote about her conversion from a Jew to Islam while blaming society for her fathers behavior. Then there is the short film she has made. She pleads with Bush and future presidents not to nuke Iran. I guess she doesn’t care about other countries getting nuked.

Yes I found out too much about a woman that begs for money, donations and help with horses online.

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