Many loyal followers of this blog are animal lovers and I know that some of you are involved in animal rescue in one form or another.  I have recently become aware of a rather sad situation involving a well-meaning but misguided animal rescue “organization” in my community that is actually more of a hoarding situation than a true rescue group.  According to the ASPCA, many people who are operating so-called rescue organizations are actually people with animal hoarding issues.  I found this on their website:

What an amazing moon last night. It was so bright that I  walked up to the barn around ten and didn’t even bring a flashlight, which was very brave, as our handyman recently took a photo of what he insists is a wolf and not a coyote on our property.  I would show you the photo but even I couldn’t make out the so-called wolf in the photo.   He said it loped off too fast.  But he kept showing me the photo of the woods and the dark, muddy trail.  ”It was no coyote.  I’ve seen coyotes all my life, that was no coyote and it wasn’t a dog, It was a wolf.” he said.  I just nodded and stared at his phone with the photo of trees.