Alley's Story I grew up with animals. There was never a time in my life that I did not have at least three cats and two dogs. Sometimes, when the barn still stood on my neighbor's property, my mom would start working with another lady and they'd rescue the ferals, get them fixed, and find them homes. Whenever that happened, we'd end up with fifteen or twenty cats sometimes. Now, I have a cat I credit with saving my life. Here's Alley's story. When I got engaged and moved away from home, I had no furry pets. We couldn't really afford them. I had a few tarantulas and they were very enjoyable but it just wasn't the same as a cuddly, furry cat or dog. My fiancee would remind me that we could barely afford to feed ourselves, let alone another mouth, …show more content…
When I say she saved my life - she saved me from my own worst enemy: myself. I have bipolar disorder, and for a while, it was very difficult to handle. I was slipping further and further into a blackness I did not want to be in, but seemed helpless to stop. I saw no way out of our situation, no future for my family. I wanted to plain and simply die, to have my son and give him up then die, or just disappear. I was able to keep from harming myself or anyone else in any way, but it wasn't easy. Anyone with the disorder can tell you just how hard it is to control sometimes. Things were bleak until Alley came. We could barely keep the power or water on, we had nearly no food, the house stayed at twenty degrees that winter, the area was dangerous...and worst of all the doctors told me to expect to miscarry or have a stillborn son. Life was dark. She reminded me that life is precious and showed me that the will to fight for a better day is one of the strongest you can have. She reminds me when I look at her that anything can be overcome - she faced insurmountable odds, a tiny, starving kitten lost in a cruel world - now she's got a home and family, is her ideal weight, is happy and healthy, has plenty of food and
In her life, she has overcame obstacles that most people in life most likely would not overcome such as rape, abuse, and even losing her daughter on Christmas Day. Despite of all she has gone through in her life, she is determine to help people to their lives better.
Faye is fighting to re-home animals that have been abandoned and abused. Since 2012 she has re-homed more than 60 dogs, and about 20 kittens. Faye says, “I would do anything no matter what to save one animal.” It’s as if her whole entire life revolves around saving animals. Faye thinks just by adopting an animal you can help animal abandonment. Also, Faye has her own book on why animal abandonment isn’t good. Although Faye thinks her job is stressful, she thinks it’s easy because she enjoys doing her job and helping animals find a home.
Growing up on the south side of Chicago in the roughest neighborhood in the city I learned a lot from others and just observing my surroundings. At times, I would always think to myself my situation could always be worse than it was, and that there is always someone who is doing worst off than me. But my situation turned from being in a bad position to being in a position where my mother would come to lose her mother and our home that we had been living in, all in the same year. After losing her mother and bother my mom lost herself in her emotions and shut down on everyone and with that came the loss of a home for me and my siblings and her job. Shortly after my mom began to go back to church and so did we. It was the first time in a log time that we had attended church and it played a big part in a learning experience for me and my siblings. Through the days that came to pass going to church sparked a desire of wanting to help others who had or are struggling to get by. My mentor, Pastor, and teacher deserves appreciation for helping my mother through a hard time and keeping me and my siblings active in a positive manor.
Lilly Barels never thought she would be a writer. As a UCLA graduate who double majored in Neuroscience and Dance, her relationship with creative writing ended in High School. However, almost fifteen years later, in the midst of a broken marriage and lost in the fog of un-fulfillment, Barels discovered the creative channel that would transform her from a high school physics teacher to a soon-to-be published writer. After a passionate and healing love affair with poetry, she was accepted into the MFA program at Antioch Los Angeles. In 2012, Barels received her Masters in Creative Writing with a focus in fiction. Barels just finished her second novel, and she is a regular contributor to Huffington Post.
I was sitting with my friend, Pistol on one of the bucking shoots watching the barrel race.
She had also shown me how it felt to lose someone you love; it was my first family member that passed away. There was never a devastated or mad time after her passing; it's strange, but she helped me know that saying goodbye was not necessarily a bad thing. At her funeral my sister and I drew her so many pictures to put in her casket so we could make her happy since she was going away. It pushed me to continue to push through obstacles and try my best so she would be proud of me.
She was the one who showed me all of the nice things you could see if you looked at things a certain way, she taught me how to laugh and how to be a kind and understanding person and when I was younger I thought she was the best that she could do no wrong but everyone does make mistakes and she also showed me that it was okay to make them and by making mistakes you learn what not to do next time.
removed her overthrow as she was too hot. She had to find a job. She
attire stood up and with her little boy in tow, took a deep breath and
Anna and I spent many evenings doing her homework together for the two English classes she decided to take. One of her first writing assignments was to write a two page paper on who her hero was. She asked me to read her paper to make sure that there were no grammatical or punctuation errors and as I was reading her paper tear welled up in my eyes. She wrote that her hero was me. How my unselfishness to have a complete stranger stay in my home and to allow this stranger to have the same luxuries and experiences that I get in my everyday life was something she had never experienced before. She was grateful that I had "chose" her as a student to stay in my home and that she was very blessed to have someone who cared so much.
She could explain anything to me and I would understand straight away. She helped a lot for my education and always was there to help. My parents knew that she could teach me and show how hard it is these days and how hard I should work. That is why they always made sure I saw her enough but it never was for me.
I could be concocting my very best homemade Pad Thai, with shrimp money bags, and none of it was as impressive or as interesting as the furry cat on the couch, not to mention the personal escort to and from the car to the door from the sweet, polite, black lab outside. But I can't really blame my guests, for Charlie and Vegas' cute faces and gestures worked their magic on me as well. And more times than not, they got what they wanted in life. After losing Charlie in a car accident, and Vegas being returned to its rightful owner, I decided to get a new cat.
“Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet.” ― Colette. Humans have shared a unique relationship with animals since ancient times, and today, that same love affair continues. Pet ownership continues to be on the rise and more people are jumping on the pet bandwagon. What is so special about the human-animal connection and why is it so important? Besides providing tremendous companionship, having a pet reaps incredible health and psychological benefits. The advantages of having an animal are endless. Everyone should have a pet, and those who don’t are missing out. Pets make us happy. Pets make us healthy. Pets are good for us.
When I needed to talk, she listened. When I was ill, she healed me. When I was hungry, she fed me. This frail woman whom I call my mom was a superwoman while I was growing up. With wisdom, she guided; with tenderness, she spoke; and with love, she raised me. Although we were very poor, my mother made it a point always to give me a present on my birthday.
As Birke and Hockenhull state, human and animals have a complex relationship and many humans can make a special bond with “many non-human animals throughout our lives, and cannot imagine a world without them” (2012, p. 15). Companion animals’ category in Canada with regards to animal use, and their total number sum up to more than 26 million; furthermore, cats and dogs make up of 56% Canadian household pets (Perrin, 2009). In this category dog sum up of 8 510 021 and cats sum up to 6 070 783 (Perrin, 2009). Other reporter animals in this category are fish, birds, rabbits, hamsters, lizards, horse, guinea pigs, snakes, frogs, turtles, ferrets and gerbils, and their total number sum up to 11 456 350 animals (Perrin,