Life @ RuffHaven: October 2011

well my plans to escape came to a screeeeeching halt.

Since my trip has been delayed (due to illness) and I am still at home,

what better way to pass the time than surf blogs and meet new quilters.

Dawn over at As Sweet As Cinnamon has asked the question...

What's your name?

the reason I named my blog Life @ RuffHaven does have a story behind it.
I named our small sanctuary RuffHaven and people have asked

"Why is your name RuffHaven? I mean, isn't that kinda cheesy?"

( yes, someone actually worded it that way ) But I am a big girl and it didn't hurt my feelings.

Now the fact that dogs say "ruff" and my driveway is the "ruffest" in the county, had nothing to do with the naming of Ruff Haven.
Well, when I decided to open a Sanctuary for old dogs I first went to "Best Friends" The largest Animal Sanctuary in the world. Yes...the world. it is located over 33,000 acres in southwest Utah....near Kanab. You should go see it....even if only on the web. Anyway. They really know what they are doing when it comes to setting up a rescue so I took their

"How to start an Animal Sanctuary" Workshop

That was nine days of intense information. When we got to the subject of business names etc... It looked like ALL the good sanctuary names have been taken. So I set apon the task of trying to figure out a good name that would fit my sanctuary to a T.

I made a long list of possible names but I kept coming back to RUFF ... cheesy but very fitting. Since most of my dogs are large, and one form of Chow Mix or another, something to do with Chow Chows was in order. And since the fur around the neck of a Chow Chow is called a ruff, it had to be part of the name.