Mary Anne, I'm sure you already know this quote, but I saw it fitting to your situation. Betty Smith wrote this as a preface to her famous book, and even though it seems to be about trees, it's really about children. However I can truly see how this piece can also be applied to homeless animals.
Enjoy your tree!
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree, which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded up plots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly ... survives without sun, water and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
Betty Smith 1896-1972
Enjoy your tree!
There's a tree that grows in Brooklyn. Some people call it the Tree of Heaven. No matter where its seed falls, it makes a tree, which struggles to reach the sky. It grows in boarded up plots and out of neglected rubbish heaps. It grows up out of cellar gratings. It is the only tree that grows out of cement. It grows lushly ... survives without sun, water and seemingly without earth. It would be considered beautiful except that there are too many of it.
Betty Smith 1896-1972
