Wednesday is Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) day. We had to pick up our weekly supply of vegetables. It was Cinder's third trip to the Blue Moon Farm. She practices obedience on the farm visits. She didn't do too well on STAY tonight, until I put her on a STAY in the shade. She also gets to meet some new people and creatures. Cinder has been getting acquainted with six or seven future participants. She even got a kiss from one this evening.
As we were making friends with the pigs who are fully committed to the CSA, we were talking to the Kristin, our farmer. I mentioned how one of the questions that we often get is "How can you let the dog go after raising it?". It must be easier than raising pigs. Kristin said that she recently acquired her first pet and it is strange for her to care for and nurture an animal that will not end up on a plate along side the fall vegetables.
"No matter how little money and how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich." - Louis Sabin
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That's what I always thought! Raising and training a puppy for somebody else is done by a lot of people for a good cause (whether fostering shelter animals or raising a service dog) but 4-H and farm kids have it the worst, raising lambs, pigs and calves that'll be slaughtered as well as zoo keepers who foster the exotic animals and once they're released never heard from again. At least with these guys, even if we don't hear from them, we know they're in good hands and still alive! (at least we'll get notified when they die!) So it drives me nuts when people ask how can you do it! Others have it worse than we do! /grin/
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