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Mar 30

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Celebrating the 9th Annual Florida Week for the Animals

The least I can do is speak out for those who cannot speak for themselves. -Jane Goodall

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“Citrus Supreme” by Valerie Aune, this year’s amazing cover artist

Thanks to the wonderful people at Florida Week for the Animals, I’ve been given the opportunity to once again post about this most amazing annual event. Running March 31 – April 8, Florida Week for the Animals hosts a number of events throughout the state, beginning this upcoming weekend.

Help celebrate this amazing week, and speak up for the innocent and voiceless — this week and every day. It doesn’t take much. Check out their Calendar of Events, which is constantly updated with new and exciting activities. And click here to see if there’s a similar Week for the Animals in your own state!

More from the lovely Michelle, at Florida Week for the Animals:

(Tampa, FL) The 9th Annual Florida Week for the Animals will be celebrated from March 31-April 8, 2018! During the extraordinary week, animal shelters, rescue groups, educational institutions and humane organizations across the state will be hosting over 100 fun-filled animal-related special events that will be saving lives, building relationships, helping animals and strengthening communities. Educators, students, businesses and caring citizens across the state will be joining in to celebrate and help animals.

Events in the spotlight will include pet adoption events, low cost spay/neuter & vaccination events, Easter pet promotions, Volunteer days at Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, Putts for Paws, thank you to Eglin Air Force handlers and K-9’s, displays and R.E.A.D. dog programs in libraries,Veg meetups, Audubon Society events, Loggerhead Marine Life Junior Veterinary Lab, low cost cat spay neuter ops, Greyhound adoptions & awareness events, children’s book donations, shelter pet low cost promos, horse adoptions/help with supplies events, pet food donations, Manatee activities for the family,Big Dogs Golf Tournament, 5K Run & Dog Jog, farm animal sanctuary events, wildlife center activities and therapy animals visiting hospitals and living-assisted homes.

Also to be included are search & rescue orgs, vegetarian and vegan meetups, parrot education classes, low cost clinics, puppy & dog training, educational events and fun-filled activities for families to enjoy friendship, food, music on behalf of the always amazing animals.Events are being added daily!

Precious lives will be saved and exciting new relationships will be built in communities during the exciting week. For more info, please call 901-454-0807 or visit http://www.floridaanimals.org/

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Gabriel, one of the 70+ kitties we’ve TNR’d! We found this lucky guy a loving home, as he was very obviously abandoned. Happy story!

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Each day, we feed LOTS of stray, feral, and abandoned kitties throughout our area — regardless of weather. These lucky guys live in our back area, and reap the benefits of being massively spoiled.

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Many people don’t know what a clipped ear signifies — this is a TNR’d cat, one who has been spayed / neutered, and returned to his or her outside home. Here is Charlie — a former feral who found his home with us, INSIDE, after being TNR’d.

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Another former feral / TNR rescue, now inside — Itty Bitty! (Note the tipped ear.) We have 5 inside guys, and all are former ferals, adopted at older ages. (Itty ran inside at 6 months, and never left!) It’s far from impossible, despite the old adage. We’re antiquarian booksellers — so here they’re doing their absolute best to help.

Jun 19

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A most amazing story (one I’ve been following for some time), of a volunteer wildlife rehabilitator, battling cancer, and his relationship with a truly remarkable eagle. Read more of the beginnings of Freedom — from injured eaglet to powerful rehabilitator in his own right — and faith, the power of love, and the kinship of all life, in Jeff Guidry’s book “An Eagle Named Freedom: My True Story of a Remarkable Friendship.”

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Photo: I wanted to share this wonderful story with you all <3 Please feel free to share <3</p><p>Freedom and Jeff<br />Freedom and I have been together 11 years this summer.<br />She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings.<br />Her left wing doesn't open all the way even after surgery,<br />it was broken in 4 places.<br />She's my baby.</p><p>When Freedom came in she could not stand<br />and both wings were broken. She was<br />emaciated and covered in lice. We made the<br />decision to give her a chance at life, so I took<br />her to the vet's office. From then<br />on, I was always around her. We had her in a<br />huge dog carrier with the top off, and it<br />was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to<br />lay in. I used to sit and talk to her,<br />urging her to live, to fight; and she would lay<br />there looking at me with those big brown eyes.<br />We also had to tube feed her for weeks.</p><p>This went on for 4-6 weeks, and by then she still<br />couldn't stand. It got to the point where the<br />decision was made to euthanize her<br />if she couldn't stand in a week. You know you don't<br />want to cross that line between torture and<br />rehab, and it looked like death was<br />winning. She was going to be put<br />down that Friday, and I was supposed to come in<br />on that Thursday afternoon. I didn't want to go<br />to the center that Thursday, because I couldn't<br />bear the thought of her being euthanized;<br />but I went anyway, and when I walked in everyone<br />was grinning from ear to ear. I went<br />immediately back to her cage; and there she was,<br />standing on her own, a big beautiful<br />eagle. She was ready to live. I was<br />just about in tears by then. That<br />was a very good day. </p><p>We knew she could never fly, so the director<br />asked me to glove train her.<br />I got her used to the glove,<br />and then to jesses, and we started<br />doing education programs for schools<br />in western Washington .<br />We wound up in the newspapers,<br />radio (believe it or not) and some<br />TV. Miracle Pets even did a show<br />about us.</p><p>In the spring of 2000, I was diagnosed with<br />non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. I had stage 3,<br />which is not good (one major organ plus<br />everywhere), so I wound up doing 8 months of<br />chemo. Lost the hair - the whole<br />bit. I missed a lot of work. When I<br />felt good enough, I would go to Sarvey<br />and take Freedom out for walks. Freedom would<br />also come to me in my dreams and help me fight<br />the cancer. This happened time and time again.</p><p>Fast forward to November 2000</p><p>the day after Thanksgiving,<br />I went in for my last checkup.<br />I was told that if the cancer was not<br />all gone after 8 rounds of chemo, then my last<br />option was a stem cell transplant. Anyway, they<br />did the tests; and I had to come back Monday for<br />the results. I went in Monday, and I was<br />told that all the cancer was gone.</p><p>So the first thing I did was get up to Sarvey and<br />take the big girl out for a walk. It was misty<br />and cold. I went to her flight and jessed her<br />up, and we went out front to the top of the<br />hill. I hadn't said a word to<br />Freedom, but somehow she knew. She looked at me<br />and wrapped both<br />her wings around me to where I<br />could feel them pressing in on my back<br />(I was engulfed in eagle wings), and she<br />touched my nose with her beak and stared into my<br />eyes, and we just stood there like that<br />for I don't know how long . That was a<br />magic moment We have been soul mates ever<br />since she came in. This is a very special bird.</p><p>On a side note: I have had people who<br />were sick come up to us when we are out, and<br />Freedom has some kind of hold on<br />them. I once had a guy who was<br />terminal come up to us and<br />I let him hold her.<br />His knees just about buckled and he<br />swore he could feel her power course through his<br />body. I have so many stories like that..</p><p>I never forget the honor I have of being so close<br />to such a magnificent spirit as Freedom.<br />~Jeff</p><p>If you enjoyed this, please share <3

Freedom and Jeff
Freedom and I have been together 11 years this summer.
She came in as a baby in 1998 with two broken wings.
Her left wing doesn’t open all the way even after surgery,
it was broken in 4 places.
She’s my baby.When Freedom came in she could not stand
and both wings were broken. She was
emaciated and covered in lice. We made the
decision to give her a chance at life, so I took
her to the vet’s office. From then
on, I was always around her. We had her in a
huge dog carrier with the top off, and it
was loaded up with shredded newspaper for her to
lay in. I used to sit and talk to her,
urging her to live, to fight; and she would…

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