This is ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE! A freaking SERVICE DOG for crying out loud!
This dog needs to be out of this horrible shelter immediately! There is no way a service dog should be killed in such a terrible way. If you know of a veteran in need please let them know! Help save him
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.
Another carriage horse has died in New York City.
End this barbaric bullshit.
If that means we no longer have an industry of animal abusers who cart fat tourists around Central Park, so be it.
End it.
Mama Possum looks utterly exhausted. A storm is approaching, so she had to lead her babies to take shelter on our porch. They’re building a Google Data Center right in our area and have already cleared thousands of trees. It’s clear that Mama Possum has lost her original home and is desperately looking for a new, safer place 😭
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