Another Animal Rescue:

Today we found a small bird just sitting in the middle of the road. When we drove up he didn't fly away. I got out of the car right in the middle of the road (the Germans do it all the time, when they want to talk on their cell, with no thought as to..."Hey I am sitting in the middle of the road blocking traffic",so figured I was good) ((Yes I had my hazard lights on, can not forget to put them on, very dangerous)) so I walk up to the bird and he still does not fly away. I knew then something had to be wrong. So I got some gloves out of the car and picked the little guy up. He did not seem hurt!? I didn't see any blood but thought he has to be hurt if he is just lying here in the road. I put him down off the road in the grass. Thinking he was a baby bird and hoping the mother would come fetch him up soon.

I went to work and made sure to grab a small box in case I needed it. I am glad I did because the poor little bird was still there 6 hours later :( We put him in the box (we being my boyfriend and I) and took him home. We put him in a warm dark area to let him rest for awhile. I looked up wildlife rescue and emailed them to find out what to do. Birds are way different than dogs or cats. Thank God for google which helped me to know what to do.

I called a German friend of mine who helps me figure out every situation I may need help with while I am living here. Thank God for her too!

Anyways, she just so happened to have a guy in her cafe (she has a coffee shop here in town) who knows a guy in town that breeds birds. Ah...perfect! So I meet up with them at the Cafe and after a coffee and some cake we head out to save the bird!

So I follow this guy to the bird man's house who has all of these exotic birds. He has a look at the bird and thinks the bird hit a car or got hit by a car. He says it is an older bird not a baby. He thinks the bird was stunned and that's why he was not flying. He also, said he didn't think the bird would make it :( But he kept the little bird and put him under some heat lamps and gave him some bird food. Better than sitting on side the road in the cold German air all night. So I hope this little bird will make it and I will keep ya'll posted...whoever ya'll is...if there indeed is a ya'll who actually reads this, I really have no clue...lol!

So here are a few links to help anyone out there who may find themselves in a similar situation:

http://audubonportland.org/backyardwildlife/brochures/babybirds

http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Injured-Bird.html

http://www.wild-bird-watching.com/Baby_Birds.html

P.S. Just a cute detail (well cute to me lol) I had worn a new T-shirt for the first time today that said "I give a hoot" with an owl on it and a heart shaped recycle symbol. And the fact that I am trying...to write a childrens book about a small bird that can not fly. Maybe it was a sign? I'll take it as one :)

I just thought these tidbits were fitting to the bird story...that's all :)

Yes, I agree that this commercial is cute and makes ya feel all warm inside! Too bad it's all bullshit! I wish it were not but it is! Watch this commercial a few times and you will see a few signs that make you realize that this is only another way to make money!

Proctor and Gamble do not care about the well being of animals, if they did they would not test on animals anymore. There are many alternatives to animal testing! There are many great products out there that do not test on animals. Therefore, I am sad to think that Dawn aka P&G uses propaganda like this to pull the wool over people's eyes. To make people think they are actually doing something good, to trick people into buying Dawn because they are thinking it is helping a cause in need of help!

Type	Public (NYSE: PG)
Industry	Consumer goods
Founded	1837
Headquarters	Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Bob McDonald (President) & (CEO)
Products	See List of Procter & Gamble brands
Revenue	▲ US$ 79.03 billion (2009)[1]
Operating income	▲ US$ 16.13 billion (2009)[1]
Net income	▲ US$ 13.44 billion (2009)[1]
Total assets	▲ US$ 134.83 billion (2009)[1]
Total equity	▲ US$ 63.099 billion (2009)[1]
Employees	140,000 (2009)

(Money, Money, Money: you don't get rich like this by giving it away)

Maybe some money does go to the oil covered animals but I can guarantee that the majority of the money is going to P&G! The fact that you must visit the web site to make your donation count will leave many dollars not donation .

I am sorry but most people are not going to sit there and examine their dish soap that closely. It says in large words "one bottle = $1 to save wildlife" yet in small print it says "up to $500,000 must visit dawnsaveswildlife.com to activate donation." The reason why they make the print so small... is the same reason all companies make it small...to lure you into something you are not aware of... therefore, the donation people think they are giving is not going to save animals at all :(

Then it is only up to $500,000 dollars! so will they pull all of the unsold bottles of dawn off the shelves all over the world once this limit has been reached? I think not they will profit in a very BIG way from this! Another issue I had with this commercial is that it is simulated demonstrations. why wouldn't they use actual animals from the gulf of mexico oil spill? Real footage of animals being saved!

I don't know maybe I am just jaded about these big ass companies!

But it just makes no sense, if you cared about animals why would you use the same product that you tested on an animal to supposedly save another animal from an oil spill?

Kill one to save another...I think not!

Billion dollar brands of P&G

• Ariel is a brand of laundry detergent/liquid available in numerous forms and scents.
• Bounty is a brand of paper towel sold in the United States and Canada.
• Braun is a small-appliances manufacturer specializing in electric shavers, epilators, hair care appliances and blenders.
• Crest is a brand of toothpaste and teeth whitening products.
• Dawn is a brand of dishwashing detergent.^[10]
• Downy/Lenor is a brand of fabric softener.
• Duracell is a brand of batteries and flashlights.
• Fusion is a brand of men's wet shave razors and is the quickest P&G brand to have reached $1 billion in annual sales.
• Gain is a brand of laundry detergent and fabric softeners.
• Gillette is a brand of safety razor and male grooming products.
• Head & Shoulders is a brand of shampoo and conditioners.
• Old Spice is a brand of aftershave, Deodorants, Soaps and Bodywash.
• Ivory is a soap.
• Nice 'n Easy is a hair coloring product.
• Olay is a brand of women's skin care products.
• Oral-B is a brand of toothbrush, and oral care products.
• Pampers is a brand of disposable diaper and other baby care products.
• Pantene is a brand of hair care products (conditioners/styling aids).
• Prilosec OTC is a brand of heartburn medicine co-marketed by AstraZeneca.
• Pringles is a brand of potato chips.
• Puffs is a brand of facial tissue.
• Secret is a brand of antiperspirant and deodorant.
• SWASH is a line up of products to freshen clothing.
• TAG is a deodorant and body spray.
• Tide is a brand of laundry detergent.
• Vicks is a brand name of over-the-counter medicines (Formula 44, Sinex, NyQuil/DayQuil)
• Wella is a brand name of hair care products (shampoo, conditioner, styling, and hair color).
• Whisper is a brand of pantyliners sold primarily in Asian markets.

Cruelty Free Products : non billion dollar brands

Item	Instead of	Try
Bar Soap	Dove	Kiss My Face
Shower Gel	Olay	Jason Natural
Toothpaste	Crest	Tom’s of Maine
Shampoo	Suave	White Rain
Conditioner	Pantene	Yes to Cucumbers
Deodorant	Secret	Mitchum
Cosmetics	L’Oreal	Revlon
Maxi Pads	Always	Seventh Generation
Tampons	Tampax	Natracare
Lotion	Vaseline Intensive Care	Palmer’s
All Purpose Cleaner	409	Seventh Generation
Dish Soap	Dawn	method
Household Cleanser	Ajax	Bar Keepers Friend
Laundry Detergent	Tide	method
Hair Color	Clairol	Revlon
Air Freshener	Glade	Make your own!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble

http://animalrights.about.com/b/2009/07/19/dawn-kills-animals.htm

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Ok my friend and I just going off about BP!!!

***Greedy fucking no good bastards! Why don't companies like this get in serious trouble? Because they have money and just pay their way out of eveything with no guilty feelings of how they have affected so many people, animals and the environment guess money is more important than their families!!! What a twisted world we live in! Greed is really not more important than peacefullness amoungst each other!!!

***yup greedy bastards ... this shyt right here has gone too far ... the oil has hit our coastline, affected the livelihood of our fisherman who work hard to bring us the seafood we love, killing our poor animals,

ITS BLOODY MURDER BP ---- You dumb fuck company ---- its been a month now and you dumbasses still can't stop the oil from spreading---- just keep on feeding us with LIES LIES LIES

You've fucking ruined our marshes and gulfshores..
You better pay all that your companies worth for this mess b/c this is affecting us hard now and will continue to affect us in the years to come

Hurricane season is coming up... BP, the President, all you government officials who are supposed to have the brains on how to control this better get your asses in motion and come up with a real plan...

BP just fucking tell the truth ... we still have oil leaking underwater .... this whole mess is catastrophic for the whole Gulf Coast

During Katrina the government failed us and now you guys are failing us again

And Obama you can stand at that podium and read your prompter and say how angry you are.... get your ass down here and take a look at BP's stupid lying ass and the mess they caused.

***shit I just vented before ya honey! if anyone it's me you can vent to whenever and where ever! Just because I don't live at home does not mean I have forgotten about my city. And these fuckers need to be dealt with. It really seems that the government could give two shits about nola! It has always seemed that way! Poor nola get so abused when she gives so much! she should be treated like a queen!

***and not to forget the men who died in the explosion.... as BP was well aware of a problem with the rig beforehand but was too cheap to repair it... and now BP .. you're fucked ... we people down here have suffered and go through so many hard obstacles so you better believe "We Will Come After you BP and we're going to go hard on your whole companies asses" smother your whole company in the oil you left us with and see if you can live in the marshes you ruined that's there to help protect us ...

You must not understand the domino effect of this ...
YOU'RE KILLERS (how do you sleep at night)

***These kinds of people are so consumed with power and greed they really could careless about the damage they are doing. If you have a look around the whole world is getting worse and worse. Life is not precious anymore so many people,animals, water and land are constantly being abused without a second thought..all that matters is money money money!!! .it's really really sad! it's already catching up to us and we are feeling the impact! all the companies are run by the banks/federal reserve and the government ran by them. They (the government) gave away their power when they let the banks take over...and like always who suffers from all of their mistakes...us the people!! the people who are decent who are just trying to live a happy comfortable life. I am hoping that the 2012 prediction of something big happening is all the banks and federal reserve completely collapse. and the tide changes in favor of the people who have suffered and dealt with these fuckers guilt! And they finally get

***what they deserve!!!

Is it ok if I put what we are talking about on my blog?

***i don't mind at all .... i want everyone to know what's really going on... not just hearing it from the news ... this is real shyt that's going to affect us in years and years to come ... its contaminating our waters and killing our animals, our fishermans way of life .... what is New Orleans? seafood city ...
our marshes are destroyed, found dead pelicans and what other dead animals that may have washed up on shore ... its hit the coastland, our beaches are closed, fishermen can't fish, oil is still gushing underwater ....

yeah so spread the word to everyone because it affects us all one way or another ... its our environment ... its leaking toxins in our air ... and who knows the real affect because we get fed with cover up after cover up ..... LIES LIES

***Monica that prediction of something big happening as the collapse of our federal reserve, environmental disasters .... the time is here already ...

Greed the root of all evils ... money isn't going with you when you die ... these people need to learn to help one another ... children are brainwashed by being consumed into electronic gadgets and swaying away from understanding history and current events occurring in our nation today ... its just sad ..

***

IT's exactly how they keep the people occupied so they stay out of the way! We are just puppets!!! a game to them! I know it's happening now alright but I want these fuckers to really get taken down as of now we are the only ones suffering! I want these fuckers fighting their own wars for their greed! I want them to have to live in a Ghetto and have to kill each other for money and food and a place to live! I want them to live on the streets with nothing but a box or bridge covering their heads while their kids starve and they can't get a job and have no one to help them! I want them to feel the pain of when a man kills himself because his families home was foreclosed and he lost his job! These fuckers like in comfort beyond comfort and have more then enough food and money to house people. seriously the money these fucks have it's sick to think of all the pain and suffering in world because of the greed. how do they not carry so much guilt around?

***shyt i needed to take a breather because i'm getting too fired up ...

***its just plain disgusting ....

***where the fuck are you Obama ( not that your doing shyt)

***oh yeah your in with the oil people .. you fuck... how much did you earn last year obama ... and what did i read somewhere that your in cohoots with the SEC too .. you don't care about change .. not one thing has changed .. oh wait it has we're in a fucking crisis

***when you guys the president and gov't official do your news conference do you send out some kind of electronic wave through our tvs to make people believe what you say ... who knows what you gov't people do ... we are guinea pigs that you test shyt out on ... BRAINWASHERS

***I hear ya girl! I get all worked up all the time over all kinds of issues! that's what I am doing right now while we are going off is writing letters and reading about different things that go on. sometimes I get so angry about it all and hate feeling helpless! :( I drive myself crazy! But we gotta keep fighting for our rights! and others rights and animal rights and environmental rights! Wow I tell ya their are some really sick twisted fuckers in this world, I wish I could re-program their brains! That's what they are trying/doing to the world!

*** and then they think we're the crazy ones bc we speak out

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Yeah he is just a nice looking smart puppet they knew after they had Bush in their they had lost all of the people. Now they got a lot of them back! It's exactly why people in power get assassinated

is because they actually want to do good for the people and the world but that can't happen. That means actually sharing the wealth. NOLA makes so much money but you don't see all that money going into t

***They drive us crazy! b/c we fight and fight to drag their asses down but it's hard when they play dirty! they play very unfair in their little fucking games! makes me sooooo sick to my stomach to think of all the evil that takes place!

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My little NOLA super bowl shirt for my beer!

Geaux Saints! We wonder what the Germans think about us dressing our beers in clothes! lol!

Josh are you seriously drinking "military special" rum...? Classic!

Gidget trying to eat asparagus out of Josh's mouth! She got it eventually! At least she likes her veggies...oh wait she will eat anything!

Had a nice day yesterday...I finally got it up...the kite that is, cooked outside in the sun, danced in the yard and got strange looks from many Germans as they walked passed. They look at us like we are aliens, maybe we are and we don't even realize it! ;)

so when we are driving German people will stop walking or whatever it is they are doing and just stare! we had this old man once who we let cross the street (they are not very pedestrian friendly here) and he stopped in the road and just stared at us, we were like ok keep walking we gotta get to work. We were waving our hands at him to go and he just stared! so we just started cracking up laughing! We have asked some of our German friends why they do that and no one really knows! It's a mystery I hope to solve before I move away from here!

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