I came across this:
https://www.wideopenpets.com/fake-service-dogs-its-a-real-issue/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=buffer&utm_term=wopfeed&utm_campaign=wopfeed&fbclid=IwAR3vKG755EOAsdRM3c1FNvfeoC4noCG6nvDtGa4nPlaSs9qShduF0ZWbWhw
This was on battle buddies on facebook who give dogs to vets who have served our country and I felt like this needed to placed here and brought to the forefront of what is happening to individuals with disabilities who spend thousands of dollars normally 10-50k for 1 dog, thats just the training, that doesnt include the cost of the dog, the gear, and all that jazz.
I realize this probably doesn't apply to you nor do you know anyone with a service animal but this needs to be shared, talked about and action taken!
Please if you see a fake service dog do the following, or suspect one is:
Some states have service dog fraud laws where the police can go after them, it's normally a slap on the wrist, but my state, its a misdemeanor, one if found guilty will get a misdemeanor, 3 years in jail and up to a 1500 fine. It's not much but that goes on there record. Also if you believe you are around a fake service animal, take as many pictures as you can of the individual, the "fake team", if possible a photograph of there gear. Alot of people get pictures by going up and saying "I just love your team, do you mind if I take a picture of your dog or of the both of you", only do this if it's safe. Also record a video, you can record a video after capturing on a photograph doesnt matter if the video is facing the service dog and owner, try and get few second of person talking, but you could make small talk and then say do you mind if I ask you, is your dog an actual service dog? What disablity and tasks does your dog do to mitigate your disability?" Those are what businesses can ask. The more proof you have the better chance you have of this person being arrested. Call the police while in the store, tell them you have video and pics of a fake service animal. I will stop talking, but if you make a trail of proof for a fake service dog then only can we start to make a change. I want and have to say this, we all need your help, the individuals who actually need service dogs to just live and survive. We need your help to start reporting this and making a statement and example out of the individuals who are doing this and ruining it for the ones who need it. So I encourage each of you, take a chance, help to save the teams who have trained 2-3 years to get our dogs to the point of full fledged service dog. Take a stand for yourself, for the others in the store, for those who interact with the dog, also you can report to the DOJ once you have filled a police report locally, federally, you have an 80% chance of the DOJ going after them! Please without each of you standing up, we can not have a voice that enough is enough! If you don't who honestly will???
These are my thoughts on todays subject. I took yesterday off from the internet so wasnt even here or anywhere online, I was snacking all day, watching movies and drinking lots of passion tea and iced coffee!
Something is going around, sick, yuck!
This post is going to be short, I woke up this morning and every few seconds I would cough and green gunk and realize not feeling well today.
Have been sleeping most of the day, just woke up a bit ago, but going back to bed shortly as I still feel like I was run down by a semi-truck.
Everyone Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!
Good night everyone!
Have been sleeping most of the day, just woke up a bit ago, but going back to bed shortly as I still feel like I was run down by a semi-truck.
Everyone Happy Friday! I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!
Good night everyone!
Learning The Joy Of Cooking With Another Person
I have always had people in my life who only liked one dish or another, or I either had people who were just to stuck on themselves and there own cooking that they would never give any of my dishes a chance to try even a bite!
Well tonight was really nice, I have someone who I have been getting to know, a new girlfriend, lol, not the sexual kind guys!
Anyways I asked if she could make a trip to Sprouts, its a local grocery store in America, here is there website, so if you haven't heard of them!
https://www.sprouts.com/
I would say from all the Sprouts I have bought things from them, they always have the freshest fruit and veggies with some of the best deals on those each with and with some of the most unusual or unique type of fruits and veggies and I love that.
Looking through the produce and fruit section of the ad, I was finding veggies and fruits that I want to go to the store eventually and buy and try myself. I was looking for a yellow watermelon, my friend only found a mini require watermelon!
Anyways its pretty awesome, as I get to teach someone how to cook and learn how to buy the correct veggies and what is good and what is not. LOL
But its nice to have someone cut veggies and fruits and to have someone nice and friendly to cook with. I never realized how much I would enjoy it, I always knew I liked making sure a person was well fed and taken care of.
I have always toned the name "Mom" from people who are closest to me or come to me as they are drawn to me. Tonight cooking with this new developing friendship, it was if I saw myself as a mom, teaching this young women, who came into my life during some of the darkest hours of my life and helped my child in a way I could not.
I saw then that why cooking supper with her I felt a weird experience as if I finally understood why my friends and those closest to me for years have called me now.
Don't call me Mom, if we ever cook together, or you take a cooking lesson from me, I am not a restaurant cook, just a home cook who is open minded to new spices and foods and use google to find new things to try and discover if they are on sale!
Enjoy the photographs from tonight's meal, I really wish I could cook like this more often and for new friends and lasting friendships. You know to all of those who wonder how someone my size cooks meals like this, currently I sit in a dining room chair, that is about to fall apart because of my high weight, lol.....
But normally I sit in my walker and just roll around and cook by myself, but it was so refreshing to have someone else in the kitchen, talking, laughing, developing a new friendship, learning to trust each other and I now crave it so much, but I must be patient, put it out in the unversie that I love cooking, and I love cooking with other people.
New goal, cook more with this bright young lady, but also try and find others other time that can be trusted and that are respected in there community and that they have passion for something in life and that it shows and that they talk about it but also they can take there passion and see it through there eyes.
Anyways here is the delicious meal I was able to cook, only thing I would say that would need anything would be the fried potatoes were lacking!
Well tonight was really nice, I have someone who I have been getting to know, a new girlfriend, lol, not the sexual kind guys!
Anyways I asked if she could make a trip to Sprouts, its a local grocery store in America, here is there website, so if you haven't heard of them!
https://www.sprouts.com/
I would say from all the Sprouts I have bought things from them, they always have the freshest fruit and veggies with some of the best deals on those each with and with some of the most unusual or unique type of fruits and veggies and I love that.
Looking through the produce and fruit section of the ad, I was finding veggies and fruits that I want to go to the store eventually and buy and try myself. I was looking for a yellow watermelon, my friend only found a mini require watermelon!
Anyways its pretty awesome, as I get to teach someone how to cook and learn how to buy the correct veggies and what is good and what is not. LOL
But its nice to have someone cut veggies and fruits and to have someone nice and friendly to cook with. I never realized how much I would enjoy it, I always knew I liked making sure a person was well fed and taken care of.
I have always toned the name "Mom" from people who are closest to me or come to me as they are drawn to me. Tonight cooking with this new developing friendship, it was if I saw myself as a mom, teaching this young women, who came into my life during some of the darkest hours of my life and helped my child in a way I could not.
I saw then that why cooking supper with her I felt a weird experience as if I finally understood why my friends and those closest to me for years have called me now.
Don't call me Mom, if we ever cook together, or you take a cooking lesson from me, I am not a restaurant cook, just a home cook who is open minded to new spices and foods and use google to find new things to try and discover if they are on sale!
Enjoy the photographs from tonight's meal, I really wish I could cook like this more often and for new friends and lasting friendships. You know to all of those who wonder how someone my size cooks meals like this, currently I sit in a dining room chair, that is about to fall apart because of my high weight, lol.....
But normally I sit in my walker and just roll around and cook by myself, but it was so refreshing to have someone else in the kitchen, talking, laughing, developing a new friendship, learning to trust each other and I now crave it so much, but I must be patient, put it out in the unversie that I love cooking, and I love cooking with other people.
New goal, cook more with this bright young lady, but also try and find others other time that can be trusted and that are respected in there community and that they have passion for something in life and that it shows and that they talk about it but also they can take there passion and see it through there eyes.
Anyways here is the delicious meal I was able to cook, only thing I would say that would need anything would be the fried potatoes were lacking!
Fried potatoes, then spaghetti with eggplant, squash, red pepper, fresh cilantro, water chestnuts and lots and lots of butter and minced garlic!
I'm excited about the next few weeks and getting stronger but also becoming friends along that way. I got a great feeling about her even though it's her last year where I live!
Lets Fight For The 9/11 Fund To Be Approved
As many of you know about Senator Paul Rand and his blocking of 9/11 in the USA, you already know that or your an American......lol, if not you just learned something new!
I feel very strong about him blocking the cost of those who tried saving the lives of so many, here is a story about it:
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/07/17/9-11-victims-fund-block-rand-paul/
Here is my personal letter to him to his personal email address, one thing I have learned in life is if you do not do it, then probably it won't happen or change will not happen. You have a voice, use it for what you believe in, but if you believe that blocking 9/11 funding and you believe in contuning to NOT forget what happened on 9/11 please take a moment out of your day, 5 minutes is all I am asking of your time to sit down and just write, even a paragraph with write, we need to work together to fight for a change and to help each other out, if we do not, how can we fight powerful individuals? This is one way, please take a moment and do this.....
Please take a moment and send an email, I will make it easy for you, here is the link:
https://www.paul.senate.gov/contact
My letter to the Senator, please use this for motivation and fights for all who are now dying for the country and men and women they found for that day.
"I am contacting you about your recent push back to the 9/11 Fund and not supporting continuing support to dyeing and those who are getting sick of will get sick in the future, those individuals who searched for people for a very long people to only find body parts, or a shoe or a part of a watch with half a arm. Many in the beginning and for weeks there shoes would melt under the heat that 9/11 and what this horrible act took place. I beg you to sit down and go back to 9/11, think about all the men and women who walked into a place that is toxic, hot, dangerous without question, and they gave there life. Don't take away the funds in which will give them more time on this earth and also pay for the cost of them dyeing and in death. We promised NEVER forget. Well clearly you have forgotten that so many people and dogs gave there lives for the lives of others, do not take what they have left away, give them the rest of the life, pay for the cost, I mean imagine, you know you are going to die for this country, for the USA, for strangers and for people they never met. Think about it again, imagine if you had a family member who was in one of those buildings and one of those individual is now dyeing and they gave there life for your family member. I am begging you to change your stance and stop blocking 9/11 Funding. NEVER FORGET!
I feel very strong about him blocking the cost of those who tried saving the lives of so many, here is a story about it:
https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/07/17/9-11-victims-fund-block-rand-paul/
Here is my personal letter to him to his personal email address, one thing I have learned in life is if you do not do it, then probably it won't happen or change will not happen. You have a voice, use it for what you believe in, but if you believe that blocking 9/11 funding and you believe in contuning to NOT forget what happened on 9/11 please take a moment out of your day, 5 minutes is all I am asking of your time to sit down and just write, even a paragraph with write, we need to work together to fight for a change and to help each other out, if we do not, how can we fight powerful individuals? This is one way, please take a moment and do this.....
Please take a moment and send an email, I will make it easy for you, here is the link:
https://www.paul.senate.gov/contact
My letter to the Senator, please use this for motivation and fights for all who are now dying for the country and men and women they found for that day.
"I am contacting you about your recent push back to the 9/11 Fund and not supporting continuing support to dyeing and those who are getting sick of will get sick in the future, those individuals who searched for people for a very long people to only find body parts, or a shoe or a part of a watch with half a arm. Many in the beginning and for weeks there shoes would melt under the heat that 9/11 and what this horrible act took place. I beg you to sit down and go back to 9/11, think about all the men and women who walked into a place that is toxic, hot, dangerous without question, and they gave there life. Don't take away the funds in which will give them more time on this earth and also pay for the cost of them dyeing and in death. We promised NEVER forget. Well clearly you have forgotten that so many people and dogs gave there lives for the lives of others, do not take what they have left away, give them the rest of the life, pay for the cost, I mean imagine, you know you are going to die for this country, for the USA, for strangers and for people they never met. Think about it again, imagine if you had a family member who was in one of those buildings and one of those individual is now dyeing and they gave there life for your family member. I am begging you to change your stance and stop blocking 9/11 Funding. NEVER FORGET!
I am writing in hopes that you will
support the men and women and dogs that looked for anyone who was
alive for so long, don't give up on them, when they didn't give up on
the countless lives that were lost that day, that could have included
a family member. Just so you know this is not a threat at all, I am
just hoping that you take a step back and really think about what you
are doing and what you are blocking.
9/11 NEVER FORGET, We Can Not Forget Or
Stop Helping, the US swore we would never forget, so you need to keep
the word of America in 2001. I know its 2019, but do not give up, do
not push back. These people need you to do the right thing!
Thank you for your time and
consideration, have a great day!"
Now, if you are willing and have a moment, this could be your first change to put positive thoughts and words out there for this world and for you putting changing a life and the world, even if it's one person. I challenge you to do it!
Willow Rivers, Thinking Big
Hello, My name is Willow Rivers, many of you have never even heard of me, that's fine, I hope in the coming days, weeks and months that you come to love my blog and love what I write about. I decided it was time to start fresh and no longer hide from the world and show the world many new things that many need or want to see or hear just do not have the voice.
Some of my messages will be emails to other people, like senators about issues I believe in, some things will be random diary entry as this is where I choose to place to tell the world my thoughts, feelings or about things going on in my life.
For now I will stay faceless but soon I will share the world and you what I look like, but for now this is who I am, I hope you give me a chance, I am a picture less blog on this Internet at this time but in time I believe that maybe I can affect a change or at least affect 1 life in this life time, if this blog reaches one person and changes there life for the better and they wish to change 1 life, then I did my work.
However that isn't really me, I have a zest for life and I really want others to want to live the life they choose to live, not the one they have either been given or chosen for them. Know that in life you are not here for the validation or approval of other people, know that you need to be the person you want to be in this life.
I hope that my passion that I write and the passion that maybe I am writing to you, passes on to you and motivates you to accept yourself, or even do the hard thing. If you love your life, love yourself, accept who you are and what you are doing in the present and plans for the future, then I would very much like to say BRAVO! If not I hope that this blog can become your hope!
Some of my messages will be emails to other people, like senators about issues I believe in, some things will be random diary entry as this is where I choose to place to tell the world my thoughts, feelings or about things going on in my life.
For now I will stay faceless but soon I will share the world and you what I look like, but for now this is who I am, I hope you give me a chance, I am a picture less blog on this Internet at this time but in time I believe that maybe I can affect a change or at least affect 1 life in this life time, if this blog reaches one person and changes there life for the better and they wish to change 1 life, then I did my work.
However that isn't really me, I have a zest for life and I really want others to want to live the life they choose to live, not the one they have either been given or chosen for them. Know that in life you are not here for the validation or approval of other people, know that you need to be the person you want to be in this life.
I hope that my passion that I write and the passion that maybe I am writing to you, passes on to you and motivates you to accept yourself, or even do the hard thing. If you love your life, love yourself, accept who you are and what you are doing in the present and plans for the future, then I would very much like to say BRAVO! If not I hope that this blog can become your hope!
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