After reading many beautiful and heartwarming articles written by mothers and daughters about Mother's Day, I wanted to share some of the photos and stories of animals I've seen around the world taking care of their young. Some of you know that I've been involved in animal rescue for many years and have a soft spot in my heart for all animals. I am always amazed at how protective and caring animals are of their offspring.
I really wanted to write a post in honor of all mothers and especially those that are often overlooked on Mother's Day each year. If you have pets you are a mother they could not survive without you! I wrote a similar post about animal mothers and their offspring for Mother's Day a couple of years ago. One of my readers was very grateful that I had posted it. Sadly not humans have a mother at all or one that they are close to.
My husband and I have also taken in several stray pregnant cats. We found homes for all of the babies and mothers including the seven orange ones in the second photo down. We actually kept the mothers - Princess (the black cat) and Peaches (orange cat) for ourselves.
The monkeys that I saw at the Monkey Forest in Ubud, Bali we're so fun to watch. The babies were so cute and well taken care of by their mothers. I thought this mother was showing tremendous patience with her little one. Here is a mother monkey feeding her baby what appears to be some coconut: I saw many elephant mothers with their babies in the Serengeti National Park while in Tanzania:
I wanted to add something to this post because it is getting quite a bit of attention. I don't want to make Bali sound like a bad place to visit. I simply had a bad experience there. I am a huge animal lover and have a special place in my heart for cats. When you read this story you will see that on the last day I was there I tried to save a young very sweet, pregnant cat. I was traumatized by the experience and that is why I wrote what I did.
I made two very big mistakes when I visited Bali. I had very high expectations and I stayed too long. For some ridiculous reason I envisioned Bali being similar to Thailand. Why??? I'm not sure. I guess because they are in the same continent - Asia. I loved everything about Thailand and I was hoping that I would feel the same way about Indonesia.
There are many pros to visiting the so-called island of paradise in Indonesia. There are many things to do, many beautiful sites to see, and the activities are not terribly expensive. I got some really beautiful photographs while there. The trouble is I don't care to look at them at this point.
Some of the cons are that Bali is a tiny overpopulated island and there is a lot of poverty. There were many times that I felt as though I were being scammed. It actually started when I got to the airport and I was asked if I wanted VIP access to getting my visa on arrival which meant jumping ahead of 10 people and saving five minutes. That cost me about $20 USD. I then was asked by one of the police officers if I was there because of "troubles at home" - that made me uncomfortable. I guess the last straw was the ordeal that I went through with a young pregnant cat that I fed during my final few days there. I did everything I could to help the cat including having a vet visit the hotel and fed her sugar water in my hotel room. When I ended up needing to catch my flight, I really couldn't get anybody to help the cat. I called a couple of days later and she had passed away.
Here is the post with the story about the cat I tried to save :'(
you can go to the rice terraced fields in Ubud: You can go to the orchid gardens which are beautiful:
You can go dolphin watching in Lovina :
it is relatively inexpensive to stay in a nice hotel. This hotel is called "The Mansion" and is in Ubud:
During my trip to Bali I stayed there for two weeks went on to Melbourne, Australia stayed there for one week and considered buying a one-way ticket back to the United States I tried to justify going back early and buying an extra plane ticket by telling myself I would save money on a hotel in Bali the visa on arrival in the exit tax which totals $50 I wish I had done it now because trying to save the cat was very traumatic to me as an animal lover if I were to give advice to someone who is planning a vacation in Bali I would tell them to stay with their tour group to make sure they don't go too far off the beaten path and beware of scammers.
I do like this picture of two little girls that I bought some fans from. They were selling them for money to go to school. They were super sweet and grateful!
I will leave you with a hopefully "feel good" video about how to open a coconut:
Have you ever "outstayed" your welcome so to speak or been incredibly disillusioned by a vacation? Thanks so much for visiting! Until next time