Valley Reporter readers have outdone themselves once again when it comes to sharing pictures and details about your four-legged family members.
It’s no secret that this is one of our favorite issues of the year because when we ask you to tell us about your furry friends, you do! Newspapers love reader engagement and it’s great to engage over school budgets and paving roads and speed bumps and bridge weight limits. It really is. AND there’s something really amazing about engaging about our pets.
It's clear that our readers feel strongly about local issues and local events and aren’t shy about sharing those feelings and yet when you talk about the four-legged creatures who share your space you drop your guards. You don’t worry about what we or anyone will think about you when it comes to your love of your pets. It’s not always that way when it’s about local issues where we may couch our concerns and carefully craft our words.
That’s such a delight and such an awesome experience for all of us – to see each other through the lens of how much we love our pets. It’s humanizing and humbling. Thank you for that.
And thanks also to those who were able to open their hearts and talk about their friends who crossed the Rainbow Bridge. That’s not easy. We lost our oldest girl this summer and we can hardly talk about her – even after so many months have passed. We had more than 15 years with her which was amazing and somehow it’s never enough.
It hurts. Loss is never easy, but it does help that so many of you know what we’re feeling when we lose a pet.
Thanks to all of you who foster pets when they need a short-term stay, a place to learn manners or potty training and more. And we appreciate those who fail at fostering. Good on you!
Thanks to the many, many volunteers who mobilize and try to help when a pet goes missing. Your work matters. No one likes it when someone else’s dog or cat is missing.
Keep up the good work folks! Let’s celebrate the fur-babies.
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