I love what you do!

When I was first out of school, we had a homeless man named Bill.  He had a German Shepard that went everywhere with him.  Every year he would come in for his rabies shot and would pay us $5 because he wouldn’t take charity. The SPCA took his dog away because he didn’t provide shelter for it. Bill didn’t have shelter, for goodness sake.  I told the investigator that he took good care of the dog and kept it vaccinated etc. but he wouldn’t budge.  Once Bill lost the dog he lost touch with reality and became more and more delusional, it was very very sad.  I was just so angry at the pompousness of the SPCA, they thought they were doing that dog such a big favor and more than likely he was euthanized as he was an older dog.  He and Bill were just fine together.  I remember him when I think of the homeless and their pets.. it is important work.

Dr. Marcia Martin