'Win It' Wednesday: A Perfume Organic

When I went on my first road trip we stopped at Canyon De Chelly AZ. When we got to the bottom some natives had this puppy that was all wet and shivering. I asked what had happened and they said that they had pulled her out of the river. They were just going to leave her there. So I scooped her up. That night she got incredibly sick. We took her to the vet and it ended up being that she had parvo. They weren't sure she was going to make it but I knew I had to try. So $600 later I have an AMAZING dog. She's the light of my life. Every time I go to Canyon de Chelly I save a dog. There are so many that need help there.

A few winters ago I was living in a small town with an even smaller local restaurant that a friend of mine was working at. She called me one day to let me know that they had caught a little mouse in one of their humane traps he had been lured in by Peanut butter. Because it was an unusually cold winter we didn't want to just put him back outside. I took him home and took care of him until spring when I released him. I named him Peeb because of his love for peanut butter.

Almost exactly one year ago I was on my way to a birthday party. We were about to turn on to the main road when I made my husband stop the car. Someone had dumped a french lop rabbit on the side of the busy road. We picked him up and brought him to our house where he would be safe. We tried to find his owner to no avail. We took him to the vet and had his badly overgrown teeth fixed and had him neutered. He went from terrified and abandoned with overgrown teeth to being our happy and beloved pet whose favorite pastimes involve tossing his toys around sitting on the couch with us and eating. I am glad that we were able to find each other. I can't imagine what kind of a person would do such a thing to such a bright and gentle creature.

I found a baby squirrel at the bottom of a huge tree following some tragedy in the canopy that left the other baby squirrels dead on the ground where they crashed from the destroyed nest. The mother was nowhere to be found perhaps dead. Sitting in the palm of my hand the baby continued to squeal so pathetically that it broke my heart. With his eyes still tightly shut he hoped his cries would help his mother find him. I took him in fed him kitten milk from a tiny bottle helped him pee and called him Scrambles. Our process continued regularly through the weekend while I called around for help. To my surprise I learned of a woman fairly close by who had somewhat of a halfway house for abandoned squirrels. She had several others she was caring for and took in my orphan. From there he would go to an official squirrel rehab program that would help him learn to be on his own. Scrambles' life wasn't so scrambled anymore...things were really straightening out for him! I'm sure since then he's happily emptied many a squirrelproof birdfeeder! Goooo Scrambles!

My mom and I were coming back from a craft festival when we saw a shape on the side of the road. As we passed we saw that it was a cat lying on the side white lines. I made my mom turn around and we parked on the side of the road right behind the cat. I ran out and we saw that it was still alive but it's tail was crushed and it was bleeding. It was mewing weakly. I started to go into the road to make sure that the cars wouldn't hit it. The cars kept coming but they were not being careful and were really close to myself and the cat. One man stopped to see if we needed help but then left once he saw that we were not personally in trouble. Since it was getting dark we had to get flashlight from the car so that the cars could see me. One car came really close to hitting the cat so I screamed. A man came out from his house down the road because he thought someone had gotten hurt. When he saw that we needed help he called the police for us since we didn't have cellphones. He brought us water and tissues since I was so upset. He told us that the cat was one of the local strays. When the police car came the officer parked his car so that ourselves and the cat would not get hurt. He and my mom used a box that we had in our car and they carefully put the cat in it. It was bleeding a lot more than we expected. The officer said that he would take it to the emergency animal hospital. As the officer drove away I was very upset because I wasn't sure of the fate of the cat. The next day we called the police station and they said to call back in a few days because they didn't know anything. When we called later that week they told us that the cat was fine and that the officer was going to adopt it because he became bonded with it through the ordeal. I was completely ecstatic because it was the best case scenario! The kitty didn't have to go to a shelter or the pound but instead now has a new home with a nice person!!