We're ringing in the New Year with a New Girl, ROSIE!
​She's from Delano and came to us via Love Leo Rescue / loveleorescue.org

Sometimes she looks like a Great Dane.
Sometimes she looks like a Bully breed.
She's looking and sniffing and lifting her paw all the time, like a Pointer.
She's sleek and shiney, quiet and gentle.

Being pushed out of a car and then spending a year and eight months in the shelter at Delano have left their mark on her. They left her a velcro girl, sticking within view of me at all times. Her molding was wrong but molds can melt and confidence comes with stability, with love, and so many things we can't know.
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Will she ever soar? Will a growing zest for life break her mold of unsure-ness? No telling, but time is her friend. Rosie's where she can nestle into a safe place and ease into easy with her world. Her bumpy beginning is over, her path will be smooth from here on out and she can glide through the years ahead. ​

https://youtu.be/WT_32n_Sgaw 
​​The best off leash hiking dog I’ve had the pleasure of sharing a trail with.
​HAPPY NEW LIFE ROSIE. HAPPY NEW YEAR TOO. Here's to trust and joy in 2024!

December 17 is an anniversary. It marks one year since P-22's passing. He is gone but, will always be here.

P-22 had me at 'puma'. This legendary 'Hollywood cat' caught my fancy as soon as I heard about him. By 2014 I was excited to show up at the on-site announcement gathering for what would be his legacy, the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing. The crossing couldn't come fast enough to save him. We trapped him between freeways, we failed him. But P-22's steadfast followers keep him in the news and artists continue to be inspired by him. ​His is an important and historical wildlife story.

​Henry Beston wrote about a “a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals…They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.” We have to learn how to live with wildlife if we want wildlife to have a future. P-22 showed us we need to rethink our road systems, showed us we need to act, and fast. Construction of the Annenberg Crossing is happening, and fast, and that gives me hope. Hope that other animals like P-22 will not be trapped on shrinking spits of land. Hope that we can do this, that this inspirational passageway will be a model for other crossings. 
https://savelacougars.org/ -  https://101wildlifecrossing.org/