Donate “Love Has No Age Limit” for Giving Tuesday – McConnell Publishing Inc.

Skip, Skipperdee, Skipperdeedodah, got here to the farm in February of 2020. He’d by no means been in a home so far as I can inform, or maybe, even a constructing. I needed to put him in fancy pants as a result of he noticed no cause to not raise his leg in the home. He would cease immediately after I sang out “Uh Uh.” He’s so biddable that I might say it cheerfully–he’d take a look at me like “Whaaa? You okay?” and put his leg down. However, I found early on, that some urine dribbled out the microsecond his leg started to raise, and the very last thing I needed was the scent of urine in the home, all the higher to inform him to go there once more. So, on went the flamboyant pants.

It had been awhile since we’d had a brand new canine, so I didn’t hesitate to tug down Love Has No Age Limits from my bookshelf and browse it once more. What, you say, didn’t you write that booklet with Karen London? Yup, I did, and it didn’t matter, as a result of most of us, irrespective of our stage of experience, can use assist remembering how you can greatest introduce a brand new canine into our houses. Bringing in a pet is one factor–a bundle of sweet-skunky smelling adorableness who has little baggage to convey into your own home. However older canines are completely different, whether or not adolescent or aged–they’ve discovered so much already about what to anticipate, what’s protected, what is just not, and how you can behave inside the bizarre group of one other species.

That’s why Karen London and I wrote Love Has No Age Restrict, and it has helped tens of hundreds of canines and the individuals who love them past our wildest desires. Shelters have advised us that handing out the booklet to adopters was discovered to considerably lower returns and calls about habits issues.

And that’s why I’m placing bulk purchases on sale on December 2nd, Giving Tuesday, to encourage individuals to purchase a number of copies–10, 50, 100?, to donate to their native shelter or rescues. I in all probability don’t have to let you know that shelters and rescues are beneath growing strain proper now, and the very last thing they want is adopted canines coming again to them as a result of the brand new homeowners didn’t know what to anticipate.

Right here’s a video that Skip and I made for social media to get the phrase out:

This week, every week I hope is filled with love and thanks and compassion for you, I hope you’ll find it in your coronary heart to do that one factor–to assist canines and their individuals settle into a brand new without end dwelling.

MEANWHILE, again on the farm: The native dude, aka buck, had his means with my favourite crabapple tree just a few nights in the past. The harm is diagnostic for a stag rubbing his antlers up and down on a tree trunk. The trunk seems to be moist now as a result of I smeared with the deer repellent (very minty), earlier than Jim might wrap the really useful accordion-ish black piping round it to guard it.

We’ve had tree-trunk hassle with rabbits earlier than, and have been late placing up caging to guard the tree bark, however by no means this. (Talking of rabbits–we had a whole Watership Down group right here all spring and summer time. And now, nothing. Nada. Not a bunny in sight. Greatest guess is that the identical bobcat who lived within the woods on the northern fringe of our property is again. (By no means noticed her–and we all know it was a her as a result of our neighbor put out a path cam and he or she had infants just a few hundred yards from our home just a few summers in the past.)

In different Oh Pricey (versus Oh Deer) information, the picture under is to remind me so as to add baking soda and baking powder to one of the best banana bread recipe ever from Pleasure of Cooking. I tossed what you see within the picture into the bin quickly as I received a photograph.

I received it collectively the following time and am comfortable to say I now have 4 batches within the freezer for Christmas meals presents for associates.

Talking of Christmas, final yr I mentioned: Ship fewer packages of presents to family and friends subsequent yr! And make all of them small and straightforward to mail! How am I doing? (And there are three extra substantial packages to come back.)

Right here’s one thing that I’m grateful for this Thanksgiving week. That is Gemma, and her new people, L and Okay. I found Gemma in a dirty, muddy pen in April, and spent six obsessed weeks looking for her a house. Primarily based on what I might discover out about her background, she’d been in an out of doors pen for her whole life, all two and a half years of it. She was alone for the final one and a half years, earlier she was together with her mom and brother at an Amish farm, who marketed they’d shoot her quickly, as a result of that they had gotten rid of their sheep.

Pal and angel Pleasure helped me progressively socialize Gemma, and introduce her to entry to different canines, whereas vet pal Eric volunteered his time to get her vaccinated. In the meantime, I appeared and appeared and referred to as and referred to as, after which greatest individuals ever–L and Okay confirmed up out of the blue. The remainder is historical past. I didn’t wish to write an excessive amount of till sufficient time had passed by to make sure that the adoption has labored out, and it has gone higher than my wildest desires. Gemma is in heaven, adores guests, different canines, and particularly, dwelling the nice life in a loving dwelling. My coronary heart is filled with gratitude that this glorious, expensive canine is in a loving dwelling.

It doesn’t matter what type of Cluster Cluck you’re dwelling inside, (I’m on Cluster Cluck # 3 up to now this week), all of us have one thing to be thankful for this week. If you’re in a position, I hope you can also make some adopted canines fortunate too, by leaping into the Giving Tuesday sale on December 2nd, and shopping for a number of copies of Love Has No Age Restrict to donate to your native shelter or rescue. Put it in your calendar should you can, cuz it’s solely in the future! (And, hey, throw in some Solution to Go’s! As little as $1, and tremendously appreciated by shelters!)