If you are like me, you need a diversion from all the political posturing and news, though I've been getting some relief from watching the World Series. And then I found this post on Care 2, which made me smile broadly. I hope it will do the same for you.

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I'm really tired of all the political posturing this year and sadly neither candidate appeals to me. I think many people are upset with Trump generally, and I am upset with Clinton because I believe she supports Planned Parenthood and I am Right to Life. I also believe that she will okay trade agreements as did her husband, and these will probably lead to many of our farm animals being sent for slaughter to Europe or Asia or both.

Someone rightly mused that with the millions of people living in the United States, it is sad that these two are running for the highest position in our nation. I concur.

So I was glad to turn my attention to something uplifting about animals and I found it on a Care 2 post. How lucky they are to not be troubled with having to vote! The inspirational account I found was headlined by Laura Goldman: Bachelor Party Ends With Adorable Puppy Rescue.

She noted that many bachelor party guests end up with hangovers, but definitely not this one. They ended up with some special party favors--a litter of puppies they rescued. I loved seeing the picture of these guys each holding a puppy, which together they had rescued.

It all started on a September morning where Michigan groom Mitchel Craddock was spending time in a Tennessee cabin with his groomsmen. He had been frying some bacon when a dog--probably drawn by the smell of food--showed up. It was obvious to him that she had recently given birth.

Craddock and the men began fussing over her, but she refused to go into the cabin.

Craddock told ABC News that she was just a sweetheart. The bride-to-be is one lucky lady to find a man of his caring caliber, and his groomsmen seem to be cut from the same compassionate cloth.

They quickly gave her a name and called her Orphan Annie. She had been so dehydrated that she was not producing milk. But that would change as the men fed her and gave her water to drink. Now to find the puppies.

They soon found her being attentive to a deep hole in the woods not too far from the cabin. She was very protective of that hole, but she allowed one of the men to be lowered head first into it where he found seven dirty little puppies.

They wisely retrieved the pups and set them down in front of Annie so she could nuzzle their faces and check them out. Then the men got down to business and cleaned them up. Instead of spending the day four-wheeling, they pooled their money and went to buy dog food.

At the end of this perfect story, each groomsmen and the groom adopted one of the puppies. Craddock's bride approved this adoption as she notes that Mitchel had proposed to her with he help of their chocolate lab.

Kirsten, the bride, had insisted that they should keep one of the puppies and observed, "It's our joke that for any of our big life events, we'll get a dog."

Only one problem--I don't know what happened to Annie though I'm sure that probably someone in this compassionate group found her a home as well.

This lovely story made me forget for a little while at least the problem of having to vote with so little enthusiasm.

Authors Bio:
I have been concerned about animal suffering ever since

I received my first puppy Peaches in 1975. She made me take a good look at the animal kingdom and I was shocked to see how badly we treat so many animals. At 77, I've been a vegan for the past 30 years and I thank God every day that I am. I am most disturbed at how little the Catholic Church and Christian churches generally give to concern re animal suffering in their ministry. I wrote to 350 bishops in 2001 and only 10-13 responded. I feel that the very least they can do is to instruct that the priests give one sermon a year on compassion to animals. I am still waiting for that sermon. I also belong to Catholic Concern for Animals - founded in England in 1929. (They are on the internet) I recently sent a sample copy of their bi-monthly publication called the ARK to the 8 Catholic bishops of Ohio. Only ONE kindly responded. Somehow we have to reach the Christian teaching magisterium. There is next to nothing re animal concerns and compassion for them. They basically believe that animals are the lesser of God's creation and that gives us the right to do anything we want to them. Way wrong. We need to change their mindsets. The animals are God's first and He expects us to treat them compassionately.