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Adopt for the Love of it.
Written By: David Stroud - Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society | Issue: April 2024
A sweet affair of the heart is no cause for concern for David’s loving wife and the animals of Cashiers Highlands Humane Society.
Due to a short out-of-town trip, I got home a little later than usual on the evening of February 14.
Looking my beautiful bride straight in the eye, I stated matter-of-factly that I was late coming home because I had been communicating with another woman in another town since last November, and it was her idea that we meet in person for the first time on Valentine’s Day.
Furthermore, once we met, this wonderful other woman gave me a car as a Valentine’s present.
It would be perfectly understandable if my wife paraphrased the Ricky Ricardo line from, I Love Lucy and said, “David, you got some ‘splainin’ to do!”
So that’s the truth. But it’s not the whole truth. Because my lovely wife knew about this all along.
In our Winter 2023 newsletter PAWsitive News, we included an urgent plea for the donation of a “gently-used” small-to-mid-size vehicle. While we love our big capacity animal transport van (which easily accommodates 20-25 animals) for our spay/neuter trips and large-scale rescues, we needed a smaller vehicle that was more efficient for our near-daily veterinarian appointments, regular food pickups and local supplies errands. Plus, the occasional trips we make to the after-hours emergency vet hospitals in Asheville almost always involve the transport of just 1-2 animals at a time.
An amazing human being and passionate animal lover responded to our plea. And after a few weeks of preparation, it was this wonderful donor’s idea to make our dream come true on Valentine’s Day. We met Gail at the tag office in Brevard and transferred the title, and then this incredible lady handed us the keys to a beautiful Chevrolet HHR!
We are immensely grateful and thankful to Gail for this much-needed vehicle to assist in our lifesaving work for the animals. It is exactly what we had hoped for, and to make it even more perfect, the vehicle had a magnet on the back which we are never going to remove.
The magnet reads:
“Don’t Shop…Adopt.”
Established in 1987, Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit animal welfare organization located at 200 Gable Drive in Sapphire, one-and-a-half miles east of the Cashiers Ingles in between Cedar Creek Club and Lonesome Valley on Highway 64. Our no-kill shelter is open Tuesday-Saturday 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. For more information, call (828) -743-5752 or email [email protected]. Tax-deductible donations to support our lifesaving work can be mailed to: CHHS, P.O. Box 638, Cashiers, NC 28717.
