Excellent post, @karinxxl. Thank you for tagging me.

@tarc did a lot of difficult work during our years in Appalachia. Overall, we helped place more than a thousand dogs and cats into loving homes across New England and eastern Canada.

A lot has changed since that bus ride in Poland when it dawned on me who you were back there in the seat behind me chatting away with @revisesociology. I'm in Morocco now and working on the launch of a new nonprofit to help animals in Azemmour, a small town on the Atlantic coast. I can't be here and see all the problems I know how to fix and just do nothing. But I won't run a shelter again. My health won't allow it. Thankfully, Morocco really doesn't need shelters because in most places, if the animal populations are not out of control, strays are allowed to live in peace and their communities take care of them. Hopefully in the near future I'll be posting more about this on Hive.