Emric's Eagle Project

Emric chose to do his Eagle Project at the local animal rescue shelter.

Which has been 2 years in the planing, mind you! 

I can't express how excited I am that we are doing this!

Any mom, with a scouting boy, out there, knows what I am talking about!

Emric is our Cat-Boy.

His project consists of 3 parts.

1. Putting a wire fence around an existing dog coral.

2. Repainting one of the Cat rooms.

2. Making cat toys to put in the many feline cages.

Thursday night.

We did the taping, and prepping of the cat room.

Boys from church, with Mike and their leader, put up a welding wire fence around an existing fence.

The purpose was to keep little dogs and puppies from getting out through the bars,

when 'people' would dump their dogs at night when the shelter is closed.
Little ones would get out and get lost or killed on the nearby roads.

I will not say more on the matter as I don't understand 'humans' who

abandon an animal who trusts them. Mskes me mad!

Our little family, Mike, Emric, Amelie and I

stayed until 10 pm to finish putting on the first coat of paint.

Saturday Morning

We were back at the shelter at 8 am doing the 2d coat, which took no time...

Notice the lovely blue color I picked for the room...

Lots of people and volunteers commented on how lovely and peaceful it was...

I think so too.

A volunteer lady, Sharron, takes care of this room every day. 

She decorates it, cleans it and even has set up a stereo to play relaxing music 

for the poor kitties who have been abandoned 

and who are waiting for someone to fall in love with them and give them a forever home....

(I will go and take a picture of it totally finished and post it here soon)

Sunday Afternoon

We went back after Church to take off the tape.
Since it went really fast,
we stayed and walked some dogs for a couple of hours.
Amelie really has been begging to do that!

A word of advice:

Do not let a 10 year old walk a cute little puppy, if you have no intention of adopting one,
right then and there.
.
After sitting in her lap, following her everywhere,
and basically be a total joy of cuddles and loves,
it WILL take a hold of a defenseless little girl's heart.
You, the adult, will have to take that heart back, brake it and smash it to pieces,
when you tell her we can't bring it home with us.
There is no going around it!
Dad was not there, so again Mom was the heartless one!!!

( He was trying to fix the church's wireless connection, which took 5 hours!)