Widowed?

Everyone is wondering, no Smith is not dead. He is here. We have just amicably decided to go our own ways. For the next year we will be separating all the things that it has taken 13 years to put together.
I will NOT be coming on the trip on the 21st. Smith is either coming with his Dad or alone. I will miss meeting everyone and seeing my friends but I have to tend to things here.
Smith will take over CSRW and I will take Carolina Cockers which has been my baby from day one.
On the flip side congrats are in order for my adoption of Folly. A toy fox terrier/jack russell mix. I swear I blame this all on Cheepers, Caspian, Trump. Truffles and Lana!
Sorry I will miss everyone but truly I need to be here.
Once Maggie is finished with high school I will proceed with moving home, Smith will go his own direction and he can always use CSRW as long as he chooses to rescue. Great cudos to him for becoming a rescuer in his own account.
I personally will not be rescuing, I will be gathering together and regrouping my own life. For the next year I will be responsible for all cockers, my personal dogs and Walt and Disney. I will need to find places for all of our rescues and Walt and Disney. Any ideas?

Last Chance Highway

The big question I am getting lately is are we like Last Chance Highway? Well, sort of, the same theory applies. Really we are VERY much like what they do. The differences are that we don't have the same amount of funding they have, we work on a VERY short budget and that I don't like other people transporting my dogs. For one thing it is extremely expensive and I don't know how much those people charge but the estimates I have gotten are much more than it costs me to do it myself. Besides what if something happens during the trip? Someone gets sick or something else weird? No one is back there keeping an eye on them and that worries me. I know every dog I rescue and tend to be super paranoid about things so it is just easier on my worry factor to hand them over to their new parents myself. I have sent them for years on legged transports, planes and everything else, I don't have a moments peace until the parents call me and tell me they are ok. I am not kidding it makes me insane. I was up until 4am worrying over Clifford getting to Canada a few months ago. So a lot of money, time and effort has gone in to figuring out how to keep me from going hysterical basically...People who know me know that it's really worth it for me to put my hands on each of my dogs during the trip. Of course then I have to worry about the ones staying home...so I use valium for that. I am an insane worry freak and will go into full blown panic attacks instantly if something happens to my dogs.
Still the whole rescue then transport thing takes it's toll, it is about a week after we get home that I can even move at a normal pace. So the bottom line for the differences between what we do and what they do is #1 Money, #2 My total insanity level when it comes to my dogs. Other than that the answer is yes, we are the same.