Have I Mentioned Lately How Much I Love Dogs?...
Don't tell Puffin I said anything about other dogs though.
Y’all are aware of the training I’ve been doing lately, I’m sure. I know I’ve talked about it here, there, maybe everywhere. I have had webinars on top of videos on top of PDF’s for weeks, and Puffin is sick of my shit.
I’m not sure I’ve told y’all why I’ve been doing all of this additional advocacy training, and I think I want to tell someone. I feel like my dream could really be a tangible and attainable action item in the near future, and I find that if I come and tell y’all what in the actual fuck I think I’m doing, it makes me feel as though I have someone holding me accountable for the fuckery in my life.
A lot of the reason that I got into advocacy work to begin with was because when I was in the worst situation in my life, being beaten, and financially abused, I had no way to pick up, grab my dogs, and get the fuck out. Sure, I could leave. But I couldn’t take them.
That meant I couldn’t leave. There was no fucking way I was leaving my dogs with someone who took that bullshit out on me, and I knew he was coward enough to try to do the same to my dogs.
Fuck that.
Shelters will take women with children. They won’t take women with dogs.
That’s why I started doing some of the things I do, like locating fosters for women enacting exit plans, or that whole Uber you to the hotel for the night thing I do, so we have time to get your dogs and cats taken care of and you’re safe for a night. I wished so many times that someone would do that for me. Unfortunately, there just aren’t that many options in the category that my advocacy work falls into.
I want to change that.
Here is my whole entire life goal. I welcome any of you to steal it, because, fucking please, let’s get this shit up and running.
Y’all know that whole tiny house rage happening? Well, how about 75 or 100 of those on a big ass spread out in the woods (where we hear you coming once them tires leave the paved road), and that gives you the option to house with your kids and dogs or cats.
It also creates a community. Which is a safety net. Maybe some workshops, teach a bitch to plant a vegetable garden, fuck I don’t know what I’ll think of between now and then.
That’s not important. The important thing is that this is what is necessary in order to get these women into safe housing. I wouldn’t leave my dogs behind, and neither do 18% of domestic violence victims who are currently staying in an abusive household so that their pets aren’t there taking it.
I get it. I do.
So, anyway, that whole, I write for a living thing. I’m considered a technical writer. Do you know what else technical writers do? They write grant requests. Proposals and the like.
Do you know how many fucking grants are out there? Bruh. It’s a fucking lot.
I think you see where I’m going with this.
Listen, once upon a time, someone else had a dream to protect people from being abused and they made it happen. Why can’t I?
You goddam right. I can fucking do it too. I dare a bitch to tell me I can’t, actually.
So, if you’re just stumbling into the awesome that is me, and you need help, yes, I will help you find care for your pets while you secure housing. Ask A Bitchface, let’s work it out. I got you girl.
I’ll tell Puffin y’all said hello, because y’all know how she gets.
I love this idea.
Good morning
Ma'am maybe you can start founding a non-profit organization it doesn't have to be big at first. So you can put your grant writing skills on the fast lane.
Tiny homes are a very good idea, the only obstacle I see here is the neighbors and government but knowing how you roll those are goals that can be achieved.
Bless you April, have a good day