Too Many Kitties, Not Enough Homes

Have I finished venting my spleen over Vicious Vick and his ardent army of supporters? Probably not. Just today, I have nothing to say. The Eagles, I believe have a pre-season away game this evening so I am looking forward to see the kind of welcome Mr. Vick gets from those fans!

I have finally been scheduled for my dog mentoring session at the shelter. I go Saturday at 2 p.m. So excited! Once I complete the session I can start working with the dogs. Because I truly want to do something for the shelter or the animals each weekend and was limited where dogs are concerned, I volunteered to transport a few kitties to an adoption event on Sunday.

Yesterday, the coordinator told me that might not be possible. The shelter is so evercrowded with cats and kittens that no transport cages are available. All are being used to house kitties in the hallways! It's so bad that in one day 40 cats came in. This is a tragedy. Why do people not spay and neuter? I can't even imagine owning an animal and not having this done.

The shelter does euthanize but only as a last resort. They do everything they can to avoid putting the animals "to sleep." But I imagine that unless a lot of kitties find homes very soon, some of them won't see the next season. Thinking that makes me want to cry. It's heartbreaking.

Last night. I was longing to eat something "normal." Factoring out my constant longing for meat, the main thing that's difficult about a Vegan diet is the monotony. While I've made some pretty tasty things it's the total sameness of it all that's just boring. Cooked veggies served over rice, cous cous or polenta. Basically, mush! And I've been eating it continually for 17 days now.

I'm sure there are multitudes of delicious Vegan meals but after working all day, it's hard. Plus, it's just not worth the time to cook something more adventurous because I'm only cooking for myself.

With a long weekend coming up, I'm hoping to find the time to scan through my cookbooks and see if I can come up with a recipe for something that's totally tasty and doesn't look or feel like gruel!

Only 13 days to go!