Me Birthday Wish

Am I announcing my birthday? Yes I am.
Do I want gifts? Yes, I DO!

But more than the cakes, the parties, the videoke and whatever whatnot there is in a celebration, what I want may not be so simple.

Obviously, I'm an animal lover, especially a dog-lover, and it always pains me to see a dog in the street skinny or in a bad condition. It makes me cry every time I hear stories of another dog butchered somewhere in our barangay, especially painful if done by people that I know. I tried to help, i really did, but there are limitations to what i could do. Being average in every sense of the word really does have its bad side.

So what do I want for my birthday?
I want someone out there to adopt animals from PAWS, or from whichever pound there is out there. There are so many celebrities out there; if i can see at lease five adopt from a pound or a shelter, my birthday would be complete.

Sometimes, love and good food just have to do

A couple of months ago, my 2 month old Aspin (Asong Pinoy) named Jingle Bells (from the Christmas song) suddenly stopped eating, Same thing happened with my previous dog (who died) so i was very very worried. I immediately called the vet and asked her what could be wrong, and she said that I should bring my dog for an anti-palvo shot, which cost Php 500.00 + vet fee which is around Php 200.00, excluding the fare. Php 700.00 is a;ready a BIG amount for any average student.

And yours truly is definitely nothing more than average.

After a few hours, with my student bank account empty, My dear Jingle and I went home with a few bottles of yakult, 2 syringes and 5 tablets each of her medicine and vitamins. Needless to say, I'm a happy owner knowing that I have done something for my beloved pet... but that didn't change the fact that then, I was broke.

Truth be known, there really are lots of animal lovers here in the Philippines. Though there are those with their archaic way of thinking who still see dogs as nothing more than soon-to-be-food if it wasn't for RA 8485, there are those who genuinely love their pets and wish to give them a good life, complete with anti-rabies shots and a registration form.

But reality is, animal medicine is expensive and registration is troublesome. Between food on the table and animal medicine, I certainly think most of us would go for food on the table. It's easy to say that we should be responsible owners, we all want that too, but the sad reality is that most of us cannot afford it.

Someone out there could be saying "can't take care of a pet, then don't take any."

Would you rather I leave that dog alone in the street to be hit by a car, or worse, captured and butchered? At least, with an owner, the chances of being killed is somewhat reduced, if only a little. It's a sad reality that slaps most of us have to face every time we look at our pets and see the trust and the love that they hold for us. We want to give them the best too, but sometimes, love and good food just have to do.