I apologize for the quiet lately.

I guess I didn’t realize how emotionally draining deciding who lives and who dies is. I wish I wasn’t exaggerating.

My mind has been flooded with Maxine lately. Remember her last week at Devore shelter? She was at the top of the list to be euthanized for her behavior. I sat down next to her kennel and asked her if she wanted to come with me. She blatantly said no and that if I even try that she would make it very, very hard. So I told her I would check with her again the next day when I came back.

But she was gone.

I knew that the chances were medium that once I pulled her out of there, I could possibly rehab her well enough to find her a human. I also knew the chances were very high that she will hide in a corner at the rescue surrounded by huskies and refuse to learn how to actually be one.

Lastly I knew that If I chose her, the space in my van and at my rescue would be filled while the healthy, bouncy, begging to be rescued husky, in the next kennel over loses his life.

Choosing who lives and choosing who dies. That’s what rescue truly is. For all of us. Every life we choose to save means another is left behind.

How do we get to the place where NONE are left behind? Money, that’s how.

If I had a billion dollars, I would literally, LITERALLY, build H3’s in every state and make sure that NO HUSKY IS LEFT BEHIND. Every single one would walk out of those shelters and if they decide that life isn’t for them, we help make that decision, not a shelter worker forced to euthanize.

That’s what I would do. I would find the best husky rescuers out there in every single state and build them shelters and give them the tools I have built to save them. They could use my name and my brand and my process. I would make each one capable of never having to say no. Arm each one with everything they need to rescue, rehab and rehome every husky in this country that needed it. Not only would the ones in my own care be safe but every husky in trouble in this country would have a solution.

It would take a billion dollars. What’s mind blowing to me is that it’s all it would take. Simple money. Money that sitting there just looking pretty could be saving every husky in need.

Got a billion dollars? I’ll use it to save every husky in this country. The crazy thing is that I could. Not just would or say I would. I could.

So what would you do if you had a billion dollars? How many huskies would you save?