Another kind of raining cats and dogs

I haven't been retired for so long that I've forgotten about Monday mornings. Like any other cook, I spent the early part of my career working shift, and so had been oblivious to the impact of a monday morning. When people eat three meals a day, seven a days a week, Monday is just another day for a shift cook.
But, I didn't spend my whole career on the floor, and so in time I learned all about Monday mornings. No matter how organized one was, Monday mornings were living proof that 'life is what happens while you're making other plans" In the real world, supplies didn't always come in as ordered, such as the time that the company that was supposed to deliver five fifty pound bags of potatoes on Saturday delivered 250 bags of potatoes instead. From unannounced VIP's to cancelled flights ..... if the fly was going to land in the ointment it was usually on Monday.
That holds true almost anywhere it seems. My friend Annette, is president of one of Nova Scotia's longest running rescue groups, the Animal Rescue Coalitions. Monday morning, she had four frantic calls about 'emergency dogs' and another six calls about cats .... one of them the mommy cat with the two 2-3 week old kittens.
While other folks were putting off checking their lotto numbers so they could fantasize about a life changing win for just a little longer, Annette was lining up fosters. While other people were having their lunch, she was off to the vets with four new dogs to be checked. And while everyone else was already full, she was finding a way to save four more lives.
Without a shelter and without becoming a hoarder herself, I might add. (the subject of how our legal system was able to view the abuse that animals suffer in a hoarding situation as being justifiable in any way is a rant that my Joan has already discussed quite eloquently in her blog.)
Anyone familiar with this blog already knows what high regard I hold so many of these 'little' private rescue groups in. Most of them don't even have shelters or paid staff. What they do have is the determination to do what they can, wherever they can, for the animals. They don't set time limits. They don't define 'treatable' by the dollar sign.
But best of all they work hard to make a good match for all their adoptables. ( the subject of how perfect a fit one can get by listening to the people who have rescued and know the animals is a separate topic for another day too)
I know I go on like a stuck record about this, but all of these groups are part of the solution .... in many cases to the "problems" that have arisen because of EBay's 'no questions asked' free online ad site.
So I would like you to meet the "Monday Morning Gang" - Marty, Ronnie, Clara and Brady. They aren't even on Petfinder yet, but they've all been healthchecked and are available for adoption. ( For more information on that contact ARC directly)