Rochester Paranormal

Respect within the paranormal community, like any other community, is something that takes time to establish, and after maintaining a nine year presence on the web, you come to understand the ins and outs of where you might find acceptance and where you obviously will not.

Within the realm of the paranormal exists numerous sub categories where each has it’s own unique following of believers and skeptics alike.

Alien Abductions, Angels, Animal Mutilations, Anomalies, Apparitions, Ball Lightning, Bigfoot, Chemtrails, Close Encounters 1st Kind, Close Encounters 2nd Kind, Close Encounters 3rd Kind, Cryptozoology Behaviors, Cryptozoology Sightings, Deja vu, Demonic Possession, Dowsing, Dream, E.Ts, E.S.P, E.V.P, Elves, Fairies, Feral Species, Ghosts, Ghouls, Gnomes, Hauntings, Healings, Hybrid Species, Incubus, Indigo People, Magick, Mediumship, Missing Time, Mothman, New Jersey Devil, Night Terrors, Occult, Orbs, Ouija Board, Out of Body Experience, Paratography, Phantom Black Cat, Phantom Black Hound, Phantom Human, Plasmoid Phenomena, Premonition, Poltergeist, Psychic Phenomenon, Rods phenomenon, Séance, Shadow Beings, Shamanism, Star Seed, Stigmatized Property, Strange Falls, Succubus, Synchronicity, Trance Mediumship, Ufos, Vampires, Werewolves, and Witchcraft.

And that’s not even a complete listing, but it does give you some ideal as to the overall diversity of the paranormal where each topic contains people who have dedicated themselves to the fullest extent of exploration regarding their chosen interest where folks like myself made it a point of gaining and encompassing every category in their search for the ever elusive missing piece of the anomalous puzzle.

It’s generally very difficult to acquire any level of acceptance within this highly selective community where rampant jealousies and underhanded competition seem to be the preferred method of doing business instead of there being more of a cooperative venture between the many groups and organizations in existence today.

But human nature being what it is, does seem to produce some rather negative behaviors in people, behaviors which never need be enacted nor even considered because everyone holds the power within themselves to express something more positive where I believe the problem is that society in general has become indifferent because by becoming indifferent it then doesn’t need to concern itself with having to handle emotional issues which then may promote feelings of failure and or vulnerability’s.

And especially during times of hardship will you find this the greatest of societal infliction, where then the distribution of acceptance and respect towards each other become the very least of our concerns.

Which in and of itself is sad.

For then what suffers most is our sense of self worth and human dignity.

Please Help Us!

It’s Christmas time.

A time of year when most people, whether they can afford it or not, are of the mindset of shopping for gifts for loved ones on Christmas day.

Sometimes these gifts may consist of purchasing live animals such as puppies or kittens because of how cute and cuddly they are when so precious and young.

The following article was first originally published on this blog on: September 3, 2006.

An article which I find most appropriate to repeat especially during this holiday time of year.

#1 Never ever leave your pet behind when evacuating for ANY reason be it a hurricane, a fire, or a man made disaster, even of you think you will be back soon, Hurricane Katrina has taught many, that is a fatal mistake (although most people have already forgotten that and still did the same thing during Hurricane Rita) and at LEAST 600,000 pets suffered, drowned and died of starvation and dehydration when there simply weren’t enough rescue groups available.

As hard as it might be to put a small or large animal in the car with you, PLEASE just figure out a way and put them on your lap if you have to, they depend on you to protect them and not chain them up to suffer and die. It should never and will never have to be a choice between your pet(s) and your kids, you figure out a way to get EVERYONE to safety, including your pet who is your responsibility and also a member of your family, otherwise you should not own a pet in the first place if you don’t see it that way.

#2 Please adopt a pet from your local shelter instead of buying one from a pet store. There are many great pets waiting for a home but 80% end up being put to sleep because so many people end up buying pets that come from puppy mills where the animals are tortured, forced to breed 24/7.

Google.com: “Puppy Mills” and you will understand.

Help stop puppy mills by putting them out of business and help stop thousands of animals from being put to sleep every day and adopt a beautiful friend from your local shelter today. Most shelters have pure breeds as well, but I prefer mutts myself. Just 1 adoption by you will make 100% difference in the life of that pet.

Please also consider adopting a mature pet over a puppy or kitten, mature pets are usually more at risk of being put to sleep and in most cases a mature pet will already be house broken which is better for you.

And remember once you have taken the responsibility of taking a pet, be kind to it forever, give it a better life then it previously had, in most cases it has been abused by a previous owner. If you can’t take the responsibility, don’t get one as it will hurt the pet in the long run when you decide you don’t want to keep it.

#3 NEVER leave your pet in a place you would not leave a baby in, such as a car when the temperature outside is hot or cold since a car will heat up or cool down really fast to an extreme temperature usually worse then it is outside and leaving a window cracked open wont help, its is a myth-even if you think you may only be gone for a few minutes, those few minutes make a huge difference on the inside.

As well do not leave your pet chained outside for more then an hour in same types of temperatures. They have fur, so imagine yourself in that kind of temperature and how you would feel being chained outside for hours in it, and then imagine wearing a fur coat during this time- as well you should remember that asphalt gets hot, so put a bare palm to the asphalt when it gets hot before walking your pet, if it burns your palm, it will burn their paw pads when they are walking on it so try to acclimate them to pet booties if at all possible when conditions are really bad.

#4 If in circumstances of last resort you decide to post a listing on Craigslist to give your pet away, consider the fact that 70% of those you get responses from will NOT BE with good intentions, even if they sound and look like the nicest and most trustworthy folks on the planet, they are professionals and know what unsuspecting owners want to see. Once they have your pet because you trusted them when they brought “their” 10 year old kid with them, your pet will very likely end up being used as live bait for dog fight training, or sold to labs for scientific experiments, and you will never know, you will just hope for the best and want to believe you did the right thing.

So think very carefully before even deciding to make that listing, you might just decide you should make every attempt possible to keep your pet with you after all even if it does soil that nice new carpet a few times a day, you are better of investing a few bucks and taking your pet to a pet behavior specialist which will almost always solve the problem behavior of your pet.

Thank you for reading and please DO take all this to heart, and forward this to anyone you know that also owns a pet or is thinking of getting one.