Tonight is the full moon. Give your monthly preventatives!
(If you have another way to remember to give your preventatives, that’s okay too! Do what works for you. I thought it might be fun for us to all give it together.)
Our NEW separate cat entrance and cat waiting room are OPEN! I’m so excited, and want everyone to come and see!
(Dogs still go through the old entrance and directly into their exam room.)
This Spring I have WAY MORE dahlia bulbs than I will ever need. They went nuts! They are mostly red ones. I sacked them up and added a business card and I am giving them away! They are in the new cat waiting room! Come and grab a sackful and if you love them, consider a donation to Cinnamon’s House. Cinnamon’s House is a local rescue organization in West Kingston, RI, for old or disabled pets that might otherwise be considered unadoptable.
Dahlia bulbs are ready now for planting! Don’t let your pet eat them as they are mildly toxic! There’s a photo of the actual red dahlia’s below.
If your pet needs more help than I can provide, there’s a “Blessing of the Animals” being performed at St Augustine’s Epsicopal church on Sunday May 19, at 9:30 am. I will be there along with Beth Sherman, the vicar at St A’s.
I’m including a reading from a class I took this month on Howard Thurman: The Glad Surprise…
There is ever something compelling and exhilarating about the glad surprise. The emphasis is upon glad. There are surprises that are shocking, startling, frightening, and bewildering. But the glad surprise is something different from all of these. It carries with it the element of elation, of life, of something over and beyond the surprise itself. The experience itself comes at many levels: the simple joy that comes when one discovers that the balance in the bank is larger than the personal record indicated – and there is no error in accounting; the realization that one does not have his door key – the hour is late and everyone is asleep – but someone very thoughtfully left the latch off, “just in case”; the dreaded meeting in a conference to work out some problems of misunderstanding, and things are adjusted without the emotional lacerations anticipated; the report from the doctor’s examination that all is well, when one was sure that the physical picture was very serious indeed. All of these surprises are glad!
There is a deeper meaning in the concept of the glad surprise. This meaning has to do with the very ground and foundation of hope about the nature of life itself. The manifestations of this quality in the world about us can best be witnessed in the coming of spring. It is ever a new thing, a glad surprise, the stirring of life at the end of winter. One day there seems to be no sign of life and then almost overnight, swelling buds, delicate blooms, blades of grass, bugs, insects – and entire world of newness everywhere. It is the glad surprise at the end of winter.
Meditations of the Heart, Howard Thurman
Happy Spring!
From Dr Dana and staff at Southern Rhode Island Animal Hospital