Starting over - a brand new beginning

So, I was in WA a couple of years ago and made the mistake of getting distracted and quitting. I continued on with my work as a psych nurse, which overall I still enjoy. I'm lucky enough to work pretty independently with my boss and have a lot of flexibility.

But, as always, my main passion in my life is my dogs. I have thought many times of getting active in WA agian and this seemed the right time to do so.

Over the past couple of years my life has more and more revolved around dogs, particularly rescue dogs. My husband and I even took a very long road trip last year from Indianapolis all the way down to Mission, TX to adopt the little girl in the above photo.

My sweet Lilly was rescued from being a street dog down in Mission and we were given the blessing of adopting her!

My main focus growing forward is to be able, through my website, to find ways to bring attention to other dogs that need homes and to help them to thrive once they are adopted.

My site, helpingpetsthrive.com right now is new so I just have a few items of content. My goal is to add an "adoptable pet" page to feature shelter dogs. Especially dogs in The Rio Grande Valley of TX.

Through my adoption of Lilly I gained a great friend it the founder of her rescue group, Forgotten Friends, and that particular area of the US for some reason has a huge population of street dogs, people seem to just dump their dogs when they get tired of them and it becomes an overwhelming job of the rescues to that area to respond to.