Month: September 2014

Jinger

We got a new dog, Jinger. We had found her 2 weeks ago and had her picked up by the Kauai Humane Society (which I now call the inhumane society) because we – naively – assumed they’d find her owner or put her up for adoption. Long story. They kill everything they can get their hands on, often don’t give give out an animal to someone who could give it a loving home. The inspector who picked up the dog seriously argued the case it would be better for the dog to be (potentially) euthanized at the (totally overcrowded) shelter than to go home with me and then possibly be re-homed. I had to go there 3 times and got into 2 big arguments with their executive director until they gave back the dog. We’d like to find her a new home, but are not certain if that’s then called a breach of contract and they’d take the animal and euthanize her (which as they emphasize is not at all the same as killing).
Sadly that way the shelter is loosing all their volunteers and the population does not trust them anymore, they get fewer donations, and can’t afford to keep as many animals as before…



Although Leilani cried too when we realized how many dogs were killed recently, she has less worries and made a nice box…



…and a bracelet…

… and a necklace for her friend…

…and mailed it with a letter to Maui.

Other than that, we still have nice sunrises

Yesterday at the beach











My Biggest Book That I Read By Myself

I read all 532 pages of Septimus Heap Flyte in less than a week! That is the longest book in the shortest time.

Well that’s all folks. She had big plans for this post, but as of this line, that’s mommy taking over as Leilani ran off with the dogs.


(she did watch with interest though as I put the photos in the post and gave her OK to publish :-)

Leilani’s speech on cookies

I won’t mention a brand name so we are not getting sued…

Old Photos

These were taken in January. The pets were pretty small then



I cleaned up my email… I found these

That’s from our trip to the Bay Area last October… almost a year ago. Lily took these on Mt Tam.
With Jay and Ana

And Zack

Same trip, I posted our hike photos a few months ago, but these I got from Ayelet







At the Coyote Point Musseum


Halloween 2013 with Naia, Rose and Kanoe. Thanks Isabella for the photos






Andy hiked Nounou with the puppies while we were in Austria


They made it to the top