So I think I mentioned in my last blog entry that I just found out that Depeche Mode will be coming in concert to the Air Canada Centre in Toronto 2 weeks after I will be leaving Canada to come back home to Virginia! How cruel! However Jason and I just discovered that Depeche Mode will be playing with She Wants Revenge near Washington DC, which is 6 hours from us, so we're going to buy some tickets this weekend! Woohoo I'm so excited. I haven't seen Depeche Mode in concert since...1990 I think? Maybe 91, I can't remember. They're awesome live and I am so excited now. What a freaky, awesome coincidence that DPM, my oldest favourite band in the universe will be playing with She Wants Revenge, my newest favourite band! HOW EXCITING! I hope we get great seats, we've decided to pay the big bucks so we can get the best seats possible. Seeing Depeche Mode will be a major event and we want to go all out for this one. I'm so psyched about this, I wish I didn't have to wait another 3 months before the concert!
I forgot to mention the neatest thing that happened this past weekend: When Jason and I were driving back home from Williamsburg VA, we saw a wild Bald Eagle! I have never in my life seen a wild Bald Eagle. I've seen them in zoo's, I've even seen them in a Bald Eagle habitat in Dollywood (no kidding), but I never thought I'd see one wild, not in the USA. My Dad tells me that it's not uncommon to see one back home near the Grand River, which I find very exciting! I've read that they have been trying to reintroduce them to the wild down here, so I hope that's all working out well...I know that they are flourishing in Canada, so that's great too. I think as of 1995 they have been removed from the endangered species list, which is very cool.
Speaking of animals, I've had quite a dissapointment regarding my plans to foster. I mentioned that I would be fostering for the Lonesome Pine Animal Rescue, well that's still all a-go, but they haven't needed my services as of yet. So I looked up another animal rescue club that was obviously in desperate need of fosters, and I found one that is about an hour from my house. Since I live in the middle of no where, an hour away isn't too bad. So I emailed them and told them that I could take in a whole slew of dogs...I saw on their website that there was a Mommy dog and her 5 puppies, plus there was a cage that had 3 Australian Shepherd mixes that were about to be euthanized any day. So I wanted to take all of them; I've got the room for them, I might as well take as many as I can! So I emailed this rescue club, and I got back this almost completely iliterate e-mail from some woman who didn't even give me her name, and I had no clue what she was saying at all. So I emailed her back and she basically told me that I need to forget about them and find a rescue closer to where I live. So I emailed her and told her that there isn't a closer rescue, and that I have no problem driving an hour to pick up these little furry guys that need me. So she wrote back and told me, once again that I needed to find an animal rescue that was closer to me! I couldn't believe it! When have you heard of people turning down a desperately needed volunteer? I was so angry...so now 8 dogs will be euthanized because of that woman. The animal shelter those dogs are in is a VERY high kill shelter, and they desperately need foster homes for them to save their lives. I see dogs advertised at that Shelter on Petfinder.com that don't even stay for a week before they are put down. I was so upset, because I wanted to help these little guys so badly. I don't even have the heart to go back and look for them, as I'm sure that some of them have already been put down. I would have gone to the shelter and pulled them myself, but I don't have the money to do it. That's the only reason I haven't gone off on my own and started my own shelter, I just don't have the money to pull dogs from high kill shelters, or for vet bills for strays that may come in.
It's all so frustrating.
Lions and tigers and bears OH MY 
i was at the Humane Society...they don't kill...thank DOG !!!!!! 
in indian lore seeing that eagle is a VERY powerful sign of positive happenings.... 
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