Hurray! I submitted work! It's been too long. Hopefully this won't be the last. As promised I've got lots of very cute pictured of puppies and their new families. Here's the scoop:

4 Paws for Ability trains service dogs for children and adults with disabilities. These pics are from the March class, "March Miracles". These dogs are trained to alert to seizures, perform behavior disruption, track their lost child, and most importantly, be their child's best friend. Learn more about 4 Paws at [link]

Enjoy and thanks for waiting patently.

Hello friends!
I wanted to apologize for being remarkably inactive the past few, or more, months. I've been going through a lot of new things; moving into my own apartment and a new job. Sadly for my art career those two things have put quite a damper on my photography and internet use. My new apt doesn't have internet (gasp!). But don't loose faith in me! I will come back and post with a vengeance (hehe)! The good thing about my new job is that it is training service dogs. So, pretty soon, I hope, will be plenty of pics of dogs and puppies. (Yes, you can all make excited sequels and cute noises now.)
So for now please accept my apologies and I look forward to posting soon!

Are you a fan of Warriors? Do you like cats? Do you like Role-playing? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions join the Warriors Fan Club!
I Joined Warriors fan club right when it was formed and now it’s grown to a great size! So other then posting fan art we want to do things together. Our founder is setting up a page for Role-playing! And Clans are being formed!
I’m leader of Windclan and I formerly invite any and all of you to join our club and then a Clan. There are four to choose from and Windclan, as well as Thunderclan, Shadowclan, and Riverclan would be happy to take you on!
So take a risk and try something new and jump right in to a world of Warriors!
Hope to see you there!
Nieme (Wolfstar)

For my last term at Bennington College I took an animal behavior course. As part of the class we were required to create, carry-out, and compile a study of our own choosing. I decided to study the personality as it correlates weight gain in growing kittens. I was going to foster a mother and her kittens through the course of the study and observe them. After many weeks of trying to find a mother cat and many plans falling through I was guided to a trailer park in Mass. There, I found a couple with 27 cats In their 50ft trailer. The living conditions were horrible and it was all I could do to not take every single cat. I did take a pregnant female, Avalon, a beautiful white cat with blue eyes and completely deaf and a kitten with such a bad eye infection she had to be put to sleep. After getting Avalon her cleaned up and well fed she gave birth to 3 healthy kittens. Or so they seemed. Within a week two had died of unknown causes and the other, Dozmary needed hand nursing. For four weeks I and an amazing friend of mine, Emma fed Dozmary every four hours. All of a sudden she got weak. When I took her to the vet they said she had Distemper, something I had the mother tested for earlier, she came up negative. We had to put her to sleep. Needless to say, the study could not be performed as proposed and my last term turned into a whirl-wind of pain and emotions.

The lesson I gained from the whole experience upon reflection is how important it is to care your pets. They are part of your family and they need you. While Avalon now lives happily with me her life before hand was not so happy, and if affected her and her kittens. If she had been given proper care and spayed there would never have been this heartache for anyone involved.
Now, I share these photos of her and her family in hopes that it will encourage you to really love and cherish your family, human and non human. Life is delicate and we need to do all that we can to help keep it safe.

The Nokota Horse Conservancy is a nonprofit organization established in 1999 to preserve the unique and historical Nokota Horse. These wild horses of the northern plains inhabited the Little Missouri badlands, now encompassed by Theodore Roosevelt National Park, for more than a century. They were removed by the National Park Service and sold during the 1980s and 1990s. The vast majority of the remaining Nokota horses now survive on the overburdened Kuntz Ranch. The goals of the Nokota Horse Conservancy are to preserve these important horses by caring for them, promoting awareness of their plight, value, and use to others, and by working to establish a sanctuary where they can survive into the future.

I'm volunteering here currently and helping to care for these amazing horses, 700 of them. They are very intelligent, level-headed, fun horses and are very much endangered. If it wasn't for the Kuntz brothers, and other supporters, the National park would have destroyed the breed completely.

Please enjoy the photographs I post over the next few months showcasing this amazing breed.

If you like what you see please help out! Many of these horses are FOR SALE! [link]

Visit [link] for more info and to help out!