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Just Listen
Written By: David Stroud - Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society | Issue: July 2023
All the creatures around us are conveying a message.
There is so much uncertainty in the world. The daily news chronicles, and sometimes compounds, these troubling times. It’s hard to know which is worse — the stresses of the known, or the anxiety of the unknown.
But I know this to be true. No matter what happens here at home or across the ocean, no matter what happens to affect our jobs, our homes, our health, or our wealth, our pets love us. Unconditionally.
As a no-kill shelter, the Cashiers-Highlands Humane Society celebrates life. Our shelter pets do not languish behind steel bars and inside cramped cages. There are no concrete block walls here. No chain-link gates in dark, dank, and depressing buildings. Our dogs romp and run all day in acres of outdoor play yards, and our cats and kittens relax and roam in cageless playrooms and porches in one of the most modern animal welfare facilities in North Carolina.
Through our rescue work, humane care, and finding forever homes, we bring people and pets together. And through our multiple community outreach programs like low-cost and free spay/neuter, low-cost rabies vaccinations, and a free food pet pantry, we keep people and pets together.
Many times, folks will tell me, “Oh, if only the animals could tell us what they are thinking.”
My response is always the same. “Rest assured; the animals will always tell us what’s on their mind. Most of us, unfortunately, are unable to understand. Or unwilling to listen.”
Unconditional love conquers all. Let’s celebrate that. And… let’s listen.
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. Visit us online at chhumanesociety.org. Tax-deductible donations to support our lifesaving work can be mailed to: CHHS, P.O. Box 638, Cashiers, NC 28717.
