Fashion for Fido
This is so near and dear to my heart and I was going to wait til Friday or Saturday to make my post on this but I can’t! The past few years in SL has shown just how generous and thoughtful the community of SL can be, particularly with fundraisers such as Relay for Life, which I have always supported, but when I heard Raven Lament of Ravenwear was putting together a project for a wonderful dog rescue group I knew I had to be a part of it, even if it was in a minor way.
As a shelter worker of 10 years, quitting college to put my heart and soul into a cause, and now as a veterinary assistant still seeing the horror of abuse and neglect cases, it’s these helpless souls who rely on the loving touch of us humans. I also volunteered for Rottweiler rescue for 5 years and survived a lot of heartache as well as many, many good memories with that as well as many souls that will forever have a piece of my heart.
Just pure icing for me is the fact that the K9 New Life Center, the all-breed rescue group that will be benefitting from this is actually located in my current (and hopefully, forever) home state of Virginia. As our dear Madi can attest, one (yes, ONE…we won’t mention the other *wink wink*…shush!) of the major things that drove me to make this far-away move was a hope to work at the Richmond SPCA, a modern, state-of-the-art facility with all the bells and whistles I had ever dreamed of for the animals. But, as much as I wanted it, it was not to be…needing a job and NOW I took a position at an animal hospital, with the SPCA finally calling me back much later where we proceeded to play phone-tag for weeks on end. I then struggled with whether I really wanted to go back to that atmosphere…taking my work home every night, having it be the focus of everything, my world revolving around it. I had become so jaded after years at the shelter back home in CT trying to enrich the lives the animals in our care while the higher-ups only seemed to care about numbers.
However, that dream will forever live on in my heart and maybe, just maybe, someday I’ll find my way back to it. But for now, the excitement of what we can do here in our virtual world for these wonderful creatures helps to fulfill part of my dream, thanks to Raven.
Please visit the auction where there are many incredible, original items, as well as some very cool gift card baskets, perfect for those who love shopping sprees! If nothing tickles your fancy, please consider dropping ANY amount of $L in the donation kiosk…as with any cause, each little bit helps!
The animals need us to.
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I am the person that all my friends make fun of for crying at commercials with abused, neglected, abandoned animals. The person who people think is animal crazy – and I definitely am! I treasure my animal family (a motley crew of my horse, my 2 cats, and my dog) and try to give as much as I can to the no kill shelters in my area since I can’t fit any more inside my little loft! I will absolutely be participating in this and am so happy to see it in SL. Lastly, I hope you keep that dream close…
<3 GW
Thanks Gillian, you’re a true gem! And yes, that recent Pedigree commercial…where the little golden mix is in a shelter run looking all mopey and comes running up to the front to sit so politely cocking his head at the prospective adopters…omg…seen it TOO many times in RL, it just kills me. And I had built up a hard shell to a lot of things over the years, really just had to in order to get through the day-to-day, but the rewards of being part of each successful adoption were always SO worth it
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