Welcome
July 24th, 2008I first want to welcome everyone to the brand new blog on our brand new site!
By “our” I mean the Purr Project, Inc. - we are (in my opinion), the premier rescue and adoption agency in the New Haven Area because we give second chances. Anyone can save kittens - that’s easy. We however, nurse back to health cats that would otherwise be euthanized because they have suffered (sometimes serious) health problems. Are we the only organization that does this? Absolutely not but it is our bread and butter pitch and we do it better.
I am the president of the Purr Project - John and I will probably be writing a most of these posts at least in the beginning. So first, let me say that these blog entries will be of my opinions and of my experiences. The things that I write will not necessarily be the views of everyone in the Purr Project or of the organization itself. That being said, I would like to dispel some notions right off the bat about animal people. Being an animal person does not automatically qualify you as a card carrying member of a stereotype - you know what I mean. I am conservative, I eat meat, I have never owned a pair of Birkenstocks, etc. I am also an animal lover. My 9 cats are my kids. I believe that regardless of who or what you are, you prove nothing by being an ass to an animal.
I was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia but the Atlanta I grew up in was not the Atlanta that you see today. It was still a part of the “old south”, where people did a lot of hunting both for sport and food (No, I have never eaten possum or squirrel). In my very own neighborhood there were dog fights, and lots of birds and squirrels being shot by BB guns - I had a Daisy rifle myself. The older I got, the smarter I got, the more I learned about animals, it became clear to me that these are beings that live, that breathe, that feel, and since it was not my hands that created these lives, it is not for me to go around shooting them. I do feel that my dirty little secret though is (as I have mentioned before), that I eat meat. I love it quite frankly and although I do like tofu and Tofurkey, there is nothing like a juicy bacon cheeseburger - package it any way that you want, it is still not the same. So I’m a bit of a hypocrite.
So, I want to have discussions with people. let’s talk about your animals, my animals, animal abuse, the politics of animals - everything! The way that I will play this is to (of course) give you my opinion, but I will always back up my opinions based on facts. I will give you sort of a bibliography and other material about where my facts come from so that you all know that I am not pulling numbers and facts out of my a**. The aim is to have some fun but also some riveting, thought provoking conversation. So - you tell me.