Thursday, January 6, 2011

Ginger

My parents adopted a dog from a shelter and I couldn't be more proud of them!!!! Her name is Ginger and she is a 2-year old Yorkie and Schnuazer mix. What do you call that?? A Yauzer!! Every time someone adopts from that shelter (which is a no kill shelter) they save another dog from a local "kill" shelter. So in essence, my parents saved 2 lives that day!! 
When I was looking up various websites in Corpus to help them find a dog, I ran accross one that said, "When you buy a dog from a breeder, you sentence another dog to death." I thought to myself, "How negative and extreme. Like that is really going to make someone want to adopt a dog - NOT! I have rewritten this sentence for their website and it reads as follows "Every time you adopt a dog here at our shelter, you save two lives!" Isn't that what we need more of in today's society? If you start observing, you will see this kind of jargon everywhere. What if we just stopped to spin it in a more positive way? Wouldn't that make more of a difference? It's the same reason why you can't tell someone who is not a Christian that they are going to hell, in the hopes that they will convert. It just doesn't work. Extremism never works because it comes with a hidden agenda. You can't scare someone to convert, you have to love them to convert! What is that bible verse?? Oh yes, "There is no fear in love because perfect love drives out all fear."

Anyway, I digress... The only thing I'm going to be EXTREME about is love, agape Love.

And the moment you have all been waiting for; here is a picture of Ginger!