Brooke Johnson and Sammy

Brooke Johnson and Sammy

Good morning friends.

Happy Throwback Thursday.  This is our great friend Brooke Johnson.  We met Brooke in July of 2013 I believe.  She had been visiting NYC from Georgia.  It was a real treat for Sammy & Family.

Brooke is a great friend to animals and has a passion for horses.  If i remember correctly she’s a pretty good rider also.  I believe she can be called an Equestrian, i think that is the term.

Looking back on the past three years, Sammy & Family is happy we got to meet so many people before we left NYC.  Day 54 here in Puerto Rico.  Life is good.

Have a great day Brooke, and have a great day to all our friends around the world.

 

Print Money for the Animals and then Print more

Print Money for animals

Good evening friends.

Well its Wednesday night and that means i can be a little more aggressive with tonight’s post. Have no fear, nothing R rated. I put a post on Dr. Harp Seal’s Facebook Page  today that I want to share tonight with some additions.  Below is the post from today;

“Any agencies or rescue centers euthanizing animals with gas chambers should not be considered a rescue center. Using gas to put down animals is anything but humane.

If states are underfunded, print the money like we do for everything else. Print it. Who cares ? The world does it for wars, stock markets and so on and so on.  If we run out of ink, buy more cartridges, if the printing machines break, build new ones, but just keep on printing”

Additions below, very good stuff, please read on;

Central banks spend trillions of dollars, yes trillions buying equities, bonds, currencies and so and so on to stabilize markets.  The financial times wrote an article about this last year.  The point being is Central Banks are a major reason, if not the main reason for the rise in equity prices the past few years. Let me repeat, trillions and trillions they spend and invest. Where do they get a lot of that money ? They print it.  Costs and expenses are meaningless if you can just keep printing.   Grant it that dilutes the value of your dollar, but that argument is long gone, nobody cares. I’m not even going to judge it at this point.

What I want to shout to the world is if Central Banks are basically rigging markets with all this printing going on; we should never have to hear that Animal Control Centers, or the Aspca or politically run Rescue Centers use gas chambers to kill animals because its cheaper. The Germans said the same thing in World War 2.  I’m sure we all read about Auschwitz.  The Nazis had it down to a science.  Well the same thing is happening to animals right under our noses here in the 21st Century.

So again, costs and expenses are meaningless, why ?  Because of the printing presses.  So I say, print and print away, and when we’re done printing, print some more.  Sounds reckless right ? Easy money policy around the globe is doing this right now and has been doing it for years. So print for a humane reason.  Print money for the  animals because they’re worth it.

And one political remark, when people say; “How is America going to pay for Obamacare?”  You guessed it, Print, who cares ? Again, we print for wars, stock markets, and anything and everything else.

For God’s sake, print money for the animals.  In the words of AC/DC; ♫♫♫ Come on, come on, listen to the money talk ♫♫♫

Signing off from Puerto Rico, Dr. Harp Seal for Sammy & Family.

The Kolb Crew Leads us out Tonight

Janice Kolb and Crew

Good evening friends.

Tonight we have the Kolb crew leading us out.  These four beauties are members of our very dear friend Janet Knecht Kolb and family.  Janice is from Mississippi and is a major friend to the animals.  She visited Sammy & Family while she was in NYC.  When Vanessa and her met her, I told her she is my first friend from Mississippi, that’s not a crack on her hometown, more to the fact that I never left NY.  It was our pleasure to make her acquaintance.  So let’s hear what Janice has to say about her crew here;

The very large brown boy is KoKo. He is 8 years old and the “Daddy” of the Krew. I got him when he was 8 weeks old. He was an only child for 7 years. The white female is Mahlee. She is a 3 year old re-home that came to me in Feb. 2014. She is a diva princess and rules the roost.

The little apricot boy is Kleiner Bruder ( German for “little brother”). I always promised KoKo a little brother so that’s why I named him that since the previous owner didnt name him. He is was about 1 year old when rescued January 2014 according to my Vet. He is from the hills of Kentucky. He was abused and neglected for the first year of his life and finally rescued by 2 wonderful women in his town. They contacted me and I fell  in love. He has been such a joy. He is smaller than he should be because he was crated in a puppy crate his whole first year and as he grew he was unable to even stand up. He has so much love to give and has come from being scared of everyone and everything ( he was scared of his water bowl) to being one spunky, loving, precious little boy.

The skinny brown boy is Kwinn Koen. He was surrendered to our local kill shelter in July 2014. The shelter contacted a local rescue that a friend of mine runs and she called me to see if I knew of anyone that could foster him till they could adopt him out. He was such a mess that you really couldn’t tell he was a Standard Poodle. His eyes were almost matted shut from infection, he smelled so bad that it made me physically ill and his ears were very infected. I fostered and then adopted him in Aug. 2014. He turns 3 on March 5. His name was Superman but he didn’t seem real attached to that so I renamed him Kwinn Koen. He has blossomed big time and has become Kleiner Bruders best friend. Those 2 rescue boys have so much energy and play nonstop.  That is the Kolb Krews story. They each have very different personalities but love each other very much. I love them all.

Janice that'[s an incredible story.  What a great full family you have.  Its like the saying goes; who rescued who ?  We can all relate to that.

Sammy & Family would like to thank Janice for making the world a better place 4 animals at a time.  God Bless.

Signing off from Puerto Rico, Dr. Harp Seal for Sammy & Family.

Sing us a Song your the K-iano Girl

Kelly the Piano Girl

Good morning friends.

Last night Kelly sat at the piano and did a rendition of Billy Joel’s “Piano Man”  Here’s how she sounded; ♫♫♫ Sing us a song your the K-iano girl, sing us a song tonight, well we’re all in the mood for a Schnauzer song, and you got us feeling alright ♫♫♫

Friends if I did not witness this myself, I wouldn’t have believed it.

Happy Tuesday.

Nasdaq 5000 and Sammy & Family 15 Years in the Making

The Nasdaq 5000 and Sammy & Family's Journey

Good evening friends.

Today was an historic day on Wall Street. The Nasdaq Composite went over 5000 for the first time since March of 2000. Please take a walk back with me 15 years ago. This is the origin of why Sammy & Family went into Social Media in 2010.

After years of being an assistant trader, I had finally been at the right place at the right time. I traded a lot of technology stocks from 1995 to 1999 with one of the largest private companies on Wall Street.  Now if you remember in the late 1990’s, the dot.com frenzy started and got so out of control that even Fed Chairman Greenspan warned of ” Irrational Exuberance”

Nonetheless the Nasdaq kept climbing feverishly in price through 1999 and all the way until March of 2000. Individual stocks were rallying 50 to 100 points a day. I was trading the craziest technology stocks through the biggest tech boom in history.   Continue reading

Monday Mornings With Dr. Harp Seal

Dr. Harp Seal Quotes Eleanor Roosevelt

Good morning friends.

Dr. Harp Seal here.  Thanks for stopping by.  Today we are going to break out some Eleanor Roosevelt quotes.

1. “It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan”

2. “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on”

I always like reading and hearing her quotes, she had a very practical way about her.  Very action and result oriented. I like that.

Have a great Monday friends.

Welcome to March from The Soldier of Love

The Soldier of Love came to say goodnight

Good evening friends.

The Soldier of Love came to welcome everyone to March.  We heard our friends back East are getting hit with more snow.  Now that is the definition of persistence at this point.  I can feel the exhaustion out there, totally relate.

We hope everyone had a nice weekend.  You know haircuts don’t change who we are but they sure make us feel refreshed. Look how revitalized Henry is looking right now.  I waited too long to get them their haircuts, I will be more timely in the future.  Sammy is getting groomed next Saturday right on time for his big 10th Birthday Bash.

I’m sure everyone feels a sense of relief knowing the details of Sammy & Family’s grooming status and such.  We have been trying to keep the night posts a little lighter.  Not to turn a blinds eye to things we have written on in the past, but there is a time and place for that.  When we do write on those subjects I will give everyone a heads up in advance.

Life can be grand, for Sammy & Family that should include all the animals too.  It just isn’t as sweet without their joy.

Signing off from Puerto Rico on day 50,  Dr. Harp Seal for Sammy & Family.