Build A Better Mousetrap, And People Will Buy ItWritten by Thaddeus Collins
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The company that has, if not built, improved on that old mousetrap is RecoveryPets.Com, and they specialize in global recovery of lost pets for those registered with their service. This company has taken pet tag and linked it with their website to provide a service that out exceeds original purpose of pet tag. They provide for their registered pet owners a webpage that contains pets name, a complete description, a photograph, and up to ten contact phone numbers or email addresses. RecoveryPets.Com has a mission to help pet owners feel more secure that if their pet is ever lost, person that finds them will be able to return them to owners. The company is also working with various agencies to get word out about their services in an effort to have these agencies have a one-stop location to identify lost pets for possible reunification with their owners. They will work with animal shelters and rescue agencies in any geographical location to set up services and distribute information about their services, all agency has to do is contact them by email at partners@recoverypets.com for more information. Now that common mousetrap has been greatly improved, and their is a service that offers pet owners ability to register once for a service that provides all benefits that RecoverPets.Com provides, it is time to take steps needed to ensure that our family pets will be returned if they should ever become lost. To get more information on services provided by this company, all a pet owner has to do is log-on to their website at: http://www.recoverypets.com.
Thaddeus Collins is the owner of RecoveryPets.Com and they specialize in the global recovery of lost pets using a unique tracking number. For more information visit http://www.recoverypets.com
| | My Wabi-Sabi Master is My DogWritten by Galina Pembroke
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As I struggle to appreciate beauty of decay, Tucker is my faithful wabi-sabi master. Tucker and I are running barefoot through soft sands of my hometown’s ocean beach. The night air feels clean and cool. I stop often, dislodging golden-grains from between my blue-painted-toes while searching for a stick. I throw Tucker a three-foot long mini-log, and he returns it as a six-inch frayed twig. He will not surrender it. I hoist and parade another mini-log. He ignores me. He is mesmerized by twig. He has perfect chew toy. Marred. Scarred. Semi-hard. Its decay proves to be its strength. It is perfect Tucker stick toy in all its dwindling six-inch glory. I too have a habit of chewing my environment. Pens and pencils are particularly attractive when I'm struggling with a new challenge. In past, I would discard my teeth-indented creative tools”. But Tucker has taught me value of fractured belongings. Now when I look at mangled implements of my creative struggles, I see their scars as battle wounds, each one a testament to origin of a thought. I keep and respect them. Everything is Enough As Plato suggested true perfection is always an ideal, never a reality. Consider "the perfect egg." There are so many variables beyond cook's control: stove-top temperature, accuracy of timer, needy neighbors relentless ringing (I love alliteration) at door. Even if you do achieve ideal creamy softness or just-hard-enough suppleness, egg still won't taste just right if you're queasy over being dumped, fired, or otherwise jarred by outside world. Ultimately, perfect egg is an inside job. As Tao Te Ching it states “If you mold a cup you have to make it hollow: it is emptiness within that makes it useful.” Westernized society tends to see holes as absences, instead of potential. Every day we suffer disappointments, because reality - like some mangled chew toy or overboiled egg - falls short of our ideals. Yet those rows of hard bitten pencils bear witness to our best efforts. We have given it our best shot. Like Tucker, all we need do now to find wabi-sabi contentment is to stretch out on our war-torn blankets and delight in what we have.
Galina Pembroke is an internationally published writer who specializes in health, self-help and spirituality. She is publisher and editor-in-chief of New View magazine online. Launched March 6, 2005, New View is a comprehensive resource that offers information and inspiration for a happier, healthier life. Visit them at http://www.nuvunow.ca
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