Cindy Hardwick

Christian, conservative , pro life, lover of nature and Country 🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

He came in 2 days ago very sick and abandoned. I asked for name suggestions.

In the end not even in doubt... Rod Stewart.

As an added bonus Skye has latched onto him and they are best friends and inseparable ❤️

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

3 weeks ago I found little Skye on a building site. She couldn’t move because she’d been hit by a car or another big trauma.

This is how it was going to end for her.

Today she’s doing great… (1/7) 🧵

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Our newest little arrival. He'd been abandoned and left to fend for himself.

You can see at the end what safety finally means to him. Pure exhaustion

The road to recovery starts here

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

Big accounts: time to take #SaveSnuggles national the same way you took #SaveLucy national.

Get behind this fight. It's about freedom.

It's time to let Snuggles go home. It's damn time.

@catturd2, @atensnut, @TomiLahren, @LauraLoomer, @SaraGonzalesTX, @AmyMek, @GuntherEagleman

[Happy Doggo Thailand @happydoggothai]

ผมไม่มีทางลืมครั้งเเรกที่เห็นไดซ์ได้เลย ตอนนั้นไดซ์ผอมเเละมีเเผลเต็มตัวเพราะมาถูกทิ้งให้อยู่ตัวเดียวเป็นเวลาเกือบหกเดือน….

วันนี้ไดซ์เปลี่ยนไปกลายเป็นหมาคนละตัว…

ไดซ์ใช้ชีวิตอยู่กับคุณหมอสิงห์เเละหมอขิมอย่างมีความสุขเป็นหมาสุขภาพดีทั้งร่างกายเเละจิตใจ❤️

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

No ways! Check this out!!!

America gets better and better!

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

I'm too spent to offer much of an update, but she's home. She's where she needs to be. There was one final twist, which I will tell you about later. It might be meaningful down the road and it is mingling my relief with a sense of disquiet. But she's home. Thank God.

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

Court in just over an hour.

Thank you God, for making me low, because that is where I found you. Be with my dog. If it be your will that Lucy is reunited with her family, make it so. If not, give us the strength to endure and to better discern your will for our lives.

Amen.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Marilyn Monroe is starting her comeback.

She is a much older girl so this will take time but she is in the right place now!

[Secretary Sean Duffy @SecDuffy]

Way to go, Vance family!

We love our Carolina coop! It’s taught our kids responsibility and the importance of being close to your food source. My eggs taste better than factory farm eggs! @CarolinaCoops @rcamposduffy

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

The shelter closed an hour ago. No Lucy today.

That means the county has now held her for at least a full week after I signed a deal I didn’t like, all because I convinced myself it was the fastest way to get her out.

Time was on my side. The prosecution’s case was becoming increasingly unpopular. Leaders of the Virginia GOP were reaching out. The dam was about to break. A little more time, I thought, and that popular outrage would be too much for the Commonwealth to keep pushing a case it should never have taken up in the first place.

But time wasn’t on Lucy’s side. She’s eleven years old. She had already been locked in that concrete kennel for seven long weeks. I had to get her out. That was the only thing that mattered.

It still hasn’t happened.

And tonight that leaves me sitting here, staring at the empty spot on the rug by the kitchen table where she should be curled up, wondering who the real enemy is in all this.

Is it the DA? No. Not personally. She’s just doing the job they pay her to do. She didn’t ask for this mess. In fact, she wrote the judge on Monday asking her to sign the order that would let Lucy come home.

Is it the neighbors? No. They’re not villains. They’re just sheep; mindless, easily spooked, moving in a mob that takes on the collective wisdom and virtue of its loudest, basest, and stupidest members. At the end of the day, they’re still sheep.

So who’s the wolf?

There isn’t one.

It’s something far worse than a wolf. It’s a Leviathan; a cold, sprawling tangle of laws and technicalities and a government that’s far too eager to shove its nose into places it was never invited. A machine that grinds slowly, impersonally, and without mercy, even when every human being involved knows the right thing to do.

That kind of enemy is the one diligent little sheepdogs like Lucy and Snuggles were never built to fight. Their loyalty, their courage, their sharp instincts - none of these things matter against paperwork and policy and the slow, soulless turning of bureaucratic gears.

And that’s what is on my mind as another day turns to night and Lucy remains in her cramped, little cell.

The real enemy is something that we have created by not being diligent guardians of our own government.

#SaveLucy
#SaveSnuggles

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Rocky 6 weeks ago the day I first met him. He was as good as dead.

Even I have to pinch myself at what he is like today… (1/6) 🧵

[Save Lucy @SaveLucyTheDog]

I'm working on a book about my dog. Will anyone read it? Dunno.

But it's my passion right now.

#SaveLucy

[Brendan M. Jones 🇺🇸 @brendanmjones]

It felt good to be off social media yesterday. Things are in the works, that's all I can say for now. Negotiations are ongoing with the DA. My attorney choked me up yesterday when he sent me an email that was just one line: "Let's get Lucy home."

Amen. Amen, amen, amen.

I spent the day with the kids at the park while @Herb_Minstrel gave voice lessons at home, going over with pen and paper what I had feverishly typed up thus far about Lucy, the makings of what I hope will be a story with some appeal beyond just myself and my little family.

Things just jump out at me on paper in a way they don't on a screen.

I'm writing this as a way to protect her, in my own way, from anything like this ever happening again. She's kind of famous right now, but it's the 15-minutes-of-fame sort of notoriety.

I want to lock that in. I want to make Lucy untouchable. I fell into a trap once that has made her vulnerable. I'm doing everything I can right now to make her invincible for the rest of her life.

If I fail to convey Lucy's story in a way that has broad appeal, then at least I hope to have a personal story to add to our family lore, where it will be valued by the people who know and matter most, the same way I treasure all of the songs my wife wrote me to get me through the terror and tedium overseas.

This will probably be another quiet day from me as I scribble lines on paper, cross them out, work them and rework them over and over - and do it all in those quiet moments when the kids aren't fighting with each other or getting into trouble or making messes and getting loud.

Thank you all for your support of me and Lucy for these past several weeks. It means the world.

#SaveLucy

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

24 hours ago I walked up and saw a tiny little girl in the worst possible state imaginable. She's only a tiny puppy and I first feared she was paralyzed. She was covered in thousands of little fleas, too weak to move, and we'd been alerted by locals who had heard her screaming alone at night.

I'm sorry. It's amazing the difference you can make in 24 hours, though, because since she's come into the hospital, she's been cleaned up, got all her medicines, and has got past that critical stage. Looking at her little clean body, it's easy to forget that she's just a tiny little young puppy who's been through so much.

The good news is her spine is not broken but she has suffered an injury in her leg, which has fused back together already because she's such a young puppy. So she will have a lifelong injury but there's a very good chance that she'll have good mobility and be able to walk around albeit with a slight disability.

Skye is her name and my reasoning was that it ... Represents the clear, open, and limitless horizon of her brand-new life. We also found her under a dark stormy sky where her life was set to end alone and in pain.

The recovery won't be easy and I've definitely cherry-picked the best bits for this video of her standing up on her first day but we'll give her all the support, medicines, and veterinary care that she needs to hopefully make a full recovery. Love you so much already little Skye ❤️

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

One of the craziest days in a long time.

We saved 9 lives directly against the odds. If you want to see what dog rescue is like up close and raw this is it.

Slightly longer watch but lots of wins to enjoy ❤️

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Little Jimbo is on the mend. He is starting to get his little strut back!

Still loves to run straight back to his bed though

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

Maximus spent his whole life on a changed n wishing somebody would notice him.

This was his whole life and he was about to die alone and sad.

This week he has been on his first ever holidays with his new family (1/6) 🧵

[Kelley Engstrom @kelstrom]

Hey everyone,
I’m asking all my followers to
Please follow this page!!! It’s for Lucy #AmericasDog. 🐾🐾

And please pray she gets to come home this week!! It’s been far too long already.

#SaveLucy

[Save Lucy @SaveLucyTheDog]

I'm going to share @music29933's song about Lucy here on this page. I love it and I want to pin it to the top here, so I'm sharing it again.

Who knew #SaveLucy would become such a cultural moment.