www.milldogrescue.org

This weekend my wife and I took the kids down to volunteer at a place that rescue's dogs from "puppy mills". I didn't really know what a puppy mill was until just recently. I have to admit I have been guilty of buying dogs from a pet shop in my life. I going to assume that everyone is as ignorant as I was about this.

A little background.

99% of dogs in a pet store come from a puppy mill. Puppy Mills are places where dogs are bred for their breed in small cages. Some dogs never see the outside or even understand what is like to be outside. They just have litter after litter of puppies so that their owners can sell them. Usually they stacked in cages one on top of another . If they bark too much its not uncommon for a mill owner to find away destroy the dogs vocal chords (The methods they use are too sad to even discuss).

Needless to say having this many litters isn't health for the animals. To give you some idea please click on this link (warning this is hard to look at).

My my whole family are serious dog lovers, my brother and his wife raise, show and groom dogs. My mom has many dogs who she adores. We have three dogs.. (and five acres). So its not surprising that my wife caught on to puppy mill issues. Particularly after she watched this episode of Oprah.

So as a family we traveled to a place in Colorado that rescues these dogs.


First we signed in then we met our guide toured the facility, its located way out in Peyton Colorado on what looks to be a lot of land. Plenty of room for dogs and people too!

We saw the supplies and needs to of the facility, and we met some amazing people that have devoted their lives to saving these animals.

The two golden retrievers in the pictures were from a puppy mill. Emma and Sadie are 7 years old and have had many litters.


What amazed me the most, is even with being in almost absolute captivity and not really having a much human interaction, was how starved for love these animals were. These are truly man's best friend, they just want to be near you and to be taken care of. In turn they will provide unconditional love. So for a few pounds of dog food , some water and play you get a friend for life!


I just wanted to bring this to my small circle of influence's attention.

the Website is www.milldogrescue.org check it out and see for yourself.

More music

All,

My last post about Facebook was prescient. I am now a heavy facebook user and have reconnected with a lot of people. I have decided I do want to keep this blog going.

So here is the latest.. been collecting up some ideas for new music , I have also just about finished rewiring my basement studio. SO....

I hope start posting more music, in fact I am going to try to challenge myself and starting April 1st post a clip a week. So if you are reading this , I need you to hold me to it. I also want people to rate the clips.. so I am going setup a grading system.. The one's that people like I will flesh out further into a full 3 or 4 minute song.

Remember I am random and much of this will be all across the board in terms of style and sound..

So watch for new tunes..
JB

Facebook,Twitter, Linked IN where does it all end

So I finally jumped in fully to the online world. I have a facebook account, a Linked in account, Twitter, and my Blog.. now all I need is my online store and I will be ready to go. Seriously though where does this all end.. Will I still be looking at my facebook a month from now.

being the geek that I am , I needed to see all of this stuff in action. Interestingly enough, it is kind of Anti-geek by nature, since it involves "Social interaction" . I think MMORPG's like Warcraft etc were more attractive to geeks as they can be someone else.

Thoughts?

Paper Plane video

When I was a kid I was fascinated with paper planes. I tried to build giant ones from card board. I would climb trees and get on top of houses to see how far they would go.. I never lived in the city but I imagine I would've tried something like this had I had the chance!

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Serial Killer or Prolific Coder

Found this site, I have a lot of programmers that I work with.. Wanted to test my skills.. I got 6/10 . Please let me know how you do..

Serial Killer or Computer Language inventor

Get Estimates

Was watching HULU.com and came accross this great clip..

Been Away

Well I haven't posted in awhile, You see I lost my father a few days after my last post, and to be honest I just haven't felt like posting since then. Mostly because I feel like I need to post something about him. He was just 58 and died working at home. It wasn't exactly sudden , he had some health problems last year and up until he was hospitalized he was a smoker.. maybe a half pack a day for almost 38 years. Anyway.. I will probably post something in his memory.. but not right now.
Many of you know from my blog that I am wanna be musician.. I had a band in the 90's that played alot and now I play at church (much more fulfilling). This year at the symitar conference I decided to pull a group of musicians together and see if we could have some fun. We had a great time and everyone was really nice to us. I almost sold my guitar to a couple of people.. :) Still trying (Symigoddess , its still for sale!)