Don’t Sam and Spud look cute together?! Did you know that you can adopt your own wild horse or burro from the Bureau of Land Management?
The BLM uses its Adoption Program as the primary tool to place these iconic animals into private care. The horses and burros available for adoption come from overpopulated Herd Management Areas where vegetation and water could become scarce if too many animals, including wildlife and livestock, use the area.
Many people have found it personally challenging and rewarding to adopt a wild horse or burro. Additionally, it is a chance to care for, and then own, a part of America’s heritage. The BLM has placed more than 230,000 wild horses and burros into private care since 1971. Many of those animals have become excellent pleasure, show, or work horses.
Learn more at http://on.doi.gov/xvy7DF . You can also view Sam and Spud’s video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IccmbPISfXk
super cool.
Scott Miller and his mother Jackie | StoryCorps
sooooooooooooo sweet.
awwwwwwwww
We were always meant to be together.
John Curtis and John Wikeira | StoryCorps
John Curtis and his husband, David Wikeira, have two sons.
The couple adopted their first child from Vietnam when he was a baby.
Eleven years later, John Curtis sat down with that son, John Wikeira, for a conversation at StoryCorps.
Source: storycorps.org
Favorite press release of the day (maybe ever)
Date: Apr. 4, 2013
Contact: James P. Judge
Media & Public Relations Manager
BluePearl Veterinary Partners
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NYPD Officer’s Cat Missing for 2 Years Found, Returned by Zombie
NEW YORK – Late Saturday night, the “Times Square Zombie” was walking on 42nd Street in Midtown Manhattan when he saw a black and white cat running rampant in the middle of the street.
Jeremy Zelkowitz, a 22-year-old Brooklyn native, who works as a promoter and dresses in character as a zombie for Times Scare, a year-round haunted house located on Eighth Avenue, saw the fugitive cat trying to enter Dallas BBQ and later Starbucks.
According to Zelkowitz, the cat then darted on and off of the road interrupting traffic. That’s when he and a friend decided to help and took the curious cat to nearby BluePearl Veterinary Partners specialty and emergency hospital in Manhattan on 55th Street.
Once at BluePearl, doctors used a microchip scanner and were able to determine the cat, named Disaster, belonged to Jimmy Helliesen, a Long Island resident and New York City Police Officer.
“When our staff initially called Mr. Helliesen, he couldn’t believe it and thought we were playing a practical joke on him,” said Steve Baker, hospital administrator of BluePearl in Manhattan. “He said Disaster had gone missing two years ago.”
According to Helliesen, he has been fostering cats at his home in Long Island that wind up at the precinct where he works until he can find them a home with suitable owners. Disaster was one of the first he took in, but about two years ago, he managed to claw through a screened window and got loose.
“This really goes to show the importance of micro-chipping your pets,” said Baker. “If you and your pet are separated, sooner or later, the odds of you and your pet being reunited are more likely thanks to this affordable technology.”
Micro-chipping is an inexpensive procedure where a tiny, rice-sized microchip is implanted under the pet’s skin and can be used by veterinarians or animal service workers to find the pet’s owner.
No one may ever know the full story of where Disaster spent the past two years or how he got from Long Island to Manhattan, but he has been reunited with Helliesen and is back at home in Long Island.
I bolded for emphasis (also that reminds me I need to update Panda’s address on the microchip site!)
Your Sister’s Sister (2011) - Directed by Lynn Shelton
Whenever I see movies with a real and genuine depiction of a relationship between sisters, I want to call or text my sister. The only reason I didn’t do so after watching this one was because it was late-ish last night when my friend and I finished the DVD.
Plus, I had already called Leah after finding a sweet card she had sent me in 2000 (I’m packing for my move on Saturday and finally tackled the stacks of paper on my desk).
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We Found Our Son In The Subway | NYT
The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.
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Three months later, Danny appeared in family court to give an account of finding the baby. Suddenly, the judge asked, “Would you be interested in adopting this baby?” The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except for Danny, who answered, simply, “Yes.”](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b842ce3481b651886690393689daa03e/tumblr_miy4qzW47T1qanm80o1_1280.png)
We Found Our Son In The Subway | NYT
The story of how Danny and I were married last July in a Manhattan courtroom, with our son, Kevin, beside us, began 12 years earlier, in a dark, damp subway station.
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More from the essay:
Three months later, Danny appeared in family court to give an account of finding the baby. Suddenly, the judge asked, “Would you be interested in adopting this baby?” The question stunned everyone in the courtroom, everyone except for Danny, who answered, simply, “Yes.”
Ron, listen to me very carefully. I lost my father when I was 10. I don’t have any brothers, and Ken Burns never wrote me back. So I am not getting married without you there to walk me down the aisle.
