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Just a Staffy Cross

Don't know who wrote this poem but it is so sad.....

 Just a Staffy Cross

 

 

Staffordshire Bull Terrier
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Today is just another day – to me they’re all the same
...
I have the worst of genes you see, I bear the “Staffy” shame.

The shame is in our numbers, there’s thousands with no home.

Thousands just like me you’ll find, in kennels all alone.
My mum was “just a Staffy”, my father – well who knows?

Mum, too, became unwanted, as the last puppy goes.

And then begins the process, of money-making deals

A life of “moving on” unfolds, who cares how the Staffy feels?

If you have the cash to hand, the Staffy pup is yours

But that pup is getting bigger now, just look at those big paws.
You brought me for your image, thought I’d make you look more tough

But you’ll find my boisterous nature has already got too much.

If you had thought to train me, with kindness and with praise

You would have had a faithful friend to share your darkest days.

I would lay down my life for you, but you simply cannot see

You make sure you get your money back on what you paid for me.
And on it goes, until one day, I’m no longer worth a dime

The retail on an adult staff – not worth the waste of time.

So what happens to a Staffy now? Do you really want to know?

Do you care what will become of us, when we leave our final home?
Have you ever thought to wonder, “Where is that Staffy now?”

The “Staffy” has another name; he’s become a “stray” somehow.

Me, I was put into a car and driven far away

The door held open, I jumped out, I thought to run and play.

It was with joy and happy heart I turned to look for you

You drove away with all my trust and a piece of my heart too.
I wondered round for many days before I was brought here.

Now I wait with heavy heart, trepidation and with fear.

Seven days is all I have you see, seven days for you to claim

The little dog that you threw out, for which you have no shame.
This is my last goodbye now my seven days are up

If only more thought had gone into the future of that pup

As the needle empties to my veins I lay down with one last sigh

I’m sorry I was born a Staffy, because it means that I must die.

No more lonely cold nights or hearing that I’m bad

No more growling belly from the meals I never had

No more scorching sunshine with a water bowl thats dry

No more complaining neighbours about the noise when I cry

No more hearing ‘shut up’, ‘get down’ ‘get out of here’

No more feeling disliked only peace is in the air

Euthanasia is a blessing, though some still can’t see

Why I was ever born, if I weren’t meant to be

My last day of living was the best I ever had

Someone held me very close, I could see she was so sad

I kissed the lady’s face and she hugged me as she cried

I wagged my tail to thank her, then I closed my eyes and…..

died.

Avoid Christmas injuries.



Christmas Lights and Christmas Ornaments with Cool Light Effect by ParentingPatch

Of the 350 reported fairy light injuries, most occurred whilst decorating. Injuries include people falling while putting up the lights, children swallowing the bulbs, and people getting electric shocks and burns from faulty lights. Lights can also have fatal consequences with an alarming number of deaths caused by people watering the tree with the lights switched on.

Accidents can be avoided by ensuring your fairy lights come with a safety mark, such as the BSI Kitemark. Only use lights outdoors if they were intended for that purpose and turn them off before you go to bed at night. It is also recommended that you replace your lights every three years and keep them out of reach of children

Around 1,000 people each year suffer Christmas tree related injuries. According to RoSPA, these injuries usually occur while fixing lights, stars and decorations to the higher branches. Other injuires include pine-related eye injuries as people reached for presents.

Thinking of Presents, people often trip over toys and electric cables. Other Christmas Day accidents include people cutting themselves when they try to open presents too quickly and people accidentally stabbing themselves with scissors, which they’ve used instead of using a screwdriver, to assemble toys.



Christmas Pudding by Matt Riggott

Holiday season is a time to break with the diet and indulge. Just as long as you don’t over indulge. Hospital admissions for alcohol related accidents and injuries go through the roof as people drink 41 per cent more in December than the monthly average.

It goes without saying you should never drink and drive.

There’s also a risk from eating the festive bird. Around 30 people die from food poisoning in the UK each Christmas. 80 per cent of people wash the turkey before cooking it, spreading germs to kitchen surfaces. It also takes hours to cook a turkey properly. Undercook turkey and you could contract salmonella poisoning. And one in five of us risk food poisoning from eating turkey leftovers which have spent longer than the recommended two days in the fridge.

For advice on staying safe see
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Healthychristmas/Pages/Christmasinjuries.aspx

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Invitation to contemplate: Survivors party time!

Invitation to contemplate: Survivors party time!:  The world did not end on December 21st 2012. Time to party? Ideas that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world were being deb...

Survivors party time!

 The world did not end on December 21st 2012. Time to party?

Ideas that the Mayan calendar predicted the end of the world were being debunked in the run up to the Apocalypse. Scholars were saying that the calendar only marked the end of the 13th baktun cycle. Geoffrey Braswell, professor of Maya archaeology, is quoted in Dallas News, as saying “There are two monuments that mention this date, the end of this cycle of the 13th baktun. But there is a very long inscription at [the archaeological site] Palenque that talks about events further in the future, and that would seem to suggest that the Maya did not think the world would end.” Indeed, the ancient Maya had even larger cycles of time than the baktun, with some inscriptions that survive pointing to years as far ahead in our Gregorian calendar as 4772.

 

So the mayan prophecy is consigned to history with a lot of other end of the world predictions.

Remember people being worried about Y2K and the Millennium Bug back at the start of the century? The Millennium Bug was thought to be a threat to technology as computers reset to “00”, implying the year was 1900 instead of 2000. The confusion was expected to lead to errors in software, causing banking systems and weapon systems to fail. Planes were expected to fall from the sky. The crisis would lead to chaos around the planet. However, at midnight on January 1, 2000, the world celebrated the new millennium without any chaos.

More recently, American radio host Harold Camping predicted the apocalypse would come on October 21 2011. However, he had also predicted the “Rapture” would take place on May 21, 2011, when God’s people would be assumed into heaven leaving the rest of humanity behind on Earth to await their doom. Neither event occured.

This is similar in nature to the prediction by Chicago housewife Dorothy Martin that the world was to end in a great flood before dawn on December 21, 1954. She convinced followers that a flying saucer from planet Clarion would rescue the true believers before the inevitable destruction of Earth.

Then there were the “Black hole” theories based on the Large Hadron Collider experiments in Geneva, Switzerland. Some people suggested that the energies set free by the controlled collisions of particles at very high speeds would form a black hole powerful enough to consume Earth and all life on it. However, high-profile studies show that there are no such dangers associated with the experiments.

So,why not gather some friends and throw a survivors party? You know you want to.

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Invitation to contemplate: Safe Drive Stay Alive

Invitation to contemplate: Safe Drive Stay Alive:     The Safe Drive Stay Alive campaign aims to influence behaviour and attitude on the roads, by targeting new and pre-drivers in ...