puppy mills suck

as you can tell, I love pugs....put I love all animals. my first pug I bought out of the paper, my second I found through a rescue out of Oklahoma called homewardboundpugrescue.com. my little mimi is a puppy mill survivor. when rescued, the rescue didn't know she was pregnant at 6 months old. (btw, that is way too young to breed a dog) When I took sweet little 9lb mimi home, she was emaciated, anemic, had a tick infestation and her body was mostly skin and bones with 10 tits of milk as most of her body weight. I raised all her babies and they were adopted out to good pug lovin' homes. Mimi now weighs 18lbs (oops that is almost too much) and is a happy healthy girl. This really opened my eyes to what a puppy mill is and how many dogs are cruelly treated in them. they are only out to make money and are treated like a crop (like ears of corn). most of them spend their whole lives in a small cage with a wire floor and are never let out. after about 6-8 years (after they can produce no more pups, they are most often killed via gunshot, poisoning, drowning, hanging...etc) this video shows the greed of this Amish man in Ohio. he is being secretly taped by an undercover investigator pretending to be interested in buying his operation. don't mean to be a downer in my blog (heck, I dont even know if anyone is reading it yet) but I wanted people to know what is going on out in our world. just cause it's hard to watch, doesn't mean we shouldn't watch it as it will help us make a difference.

Stitch N Bitch

had a great time at S n B last thursday. Shelly the owner of Twist Yarn Shop told me I win the prize for bringing the most people into the shop. yeah, i'm a winner! here is the gang i brought in last thursday. my sister is the one with the sticks up her nose. (i just taught her to knit that night....is she trying to saying something?) probably just cause she is a bad ass.

actually my sister is so innocent that after snb, we went for a pint at the "anchor" and she told me that was the first time she has been in a bar and the first time she has ever shown her ID. she was giving the guy at the door the biggest smile. (I was like..Sarah...if you smile at the doorman, he'll think you have a fake ID)

bay harbor monkeys

Well I finished my very first "real" sock. I feel very accomplished and wore the "one" around the house a little bit today before i blocked it. i made a blocking tool out of a coathanger I found on someone else's blog. it's a bit loose so i'm thinking i should have used #1 us sz needles instead of the #2 the pattern calls for. i have a narrow foot, so i should have known better. anyway...here it is. i'm very proud of myself. the sock yarn used is handdyed from "cosmic yarns" and the colorway is "bayharbor butcher". if you watch the show dexter, it's named after a character in season 2.