SAINTS Animal Rescue

This is an organization that gives me a renewed faith in human beings. SAINTS is an end-of-life sanctuary for senior and special needs animals that have nowhere else to go. How anyone could abandon a member of their family when they need them most is beyond me, but that's what a place like this is so needed!
Since they've opened in December of 2004, SAINTS has had over a hundred and fifty animals come in through it's doors. Forty-nine of them have been adopted into wonderful loving homes. Forty-two have passed away in loving care at SAINTS and the remaining 65 still call SAINTS their home.
I'm so glad there are pople like this in the world.
http://www.saintsrescue.ca/index.htm

A few good dogs...

Warren often takes photos of the dogs in the houses that he inspects. These are a few of my faves...

Albino Peacock

A bird in the hand...

I can't remember how that expression ends, but who cares???? This is a hummingbird that got trapped at W's parents house, and he saved the day by capturing and releasing it.

Camoflage

Warren took this picture of a Grouse at a house he was inspecting in the British Properties. They aren't the smartest birds in the world. Warren started making the noise they make (sort of a throaty Whoomp whoomp) and the dumb bird must have thought he was the weirdest looking Grouse making the mating call, and came close enough for Warren to take this photo.

Woody?

This is a Flicker (?) that we noticed around the area last fall when we moved in to our apartment. It disappeared in early spring, and recently made its return...
I've become the biggest bird nerd... We have feeders out, and get 5 or 6 different species of Finch, Sparrow, Chickadee and my personal favorite, the Bush Tit. No, not a typo...
We've also had a Hummingbird (just once!) and recently a Stellar's Jay.
See? Bird nerd.

The Visitor

This is a photo we took camping last summer in Squamish. We were snuggled in our tent, when we suddenly saw a funny shadow moving across the fly...
We decided to take a look, and we found this tiny little frog camped out.