Comments on: Going Home http://shepherdspringanimalhospital.com/2009/04/28/going-home/ Veterinary medicine and surgery from a personal perspective. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:08:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Becky Jones http://shepherdspringanimalhospital.com/2009/04/28/going-home/#comment-206 Tue, 05 May 2009 15:52:27 +0000 http://shepherdspringanimalhospital.com/?p=551#comment-206 Whether it be luck or fate, whatever brought “our” gentle, kind (and highly skilled) Dr. Griggs to our community, all living creatures will benefit. He serves as an example of the good that one person can do, yet he does so with humility and honest intentions. Regardless of age, we all have much to learn about our relationships with animals and certainly with our human counterparts. Change for the better comes slowly, but is ever so much easier if there is a good leader to emulate. We have one among us. Now we all need to try just a little bit harder, but maybe a little bit more gently.

]]> By: Melissa Starbuck http://shepherdspringanimalhospital.com/2009/04/28/going-home/#comment-200 Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:26:57 +0000 http://shepherdspringanimalhospital.com/?p=551#comment-200 It is so rewarding to know they get to go home, and so rewarding to have the privilege of interacting with them to help them get there. The species called Man is so arrogant…we don’t “fit” on this planet anywhere. A very few of us try hard…like you. But it still doesn’t make up for the rest of us.

This is the perfect context in which to share one of my all-time favorite quotes, by Douglas Adams from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy:

“…on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much — the wheel, New York, wars and so on — whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man — for precisely the same reasons.”

Keep on keepin’ on, Norm……you make us proud.

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