HER Journal | Animal league director finds objective in pets

If Lenor Teague comes again in a second life, she desires to be a cat.

“I simply wish to be cherished, lay round and simply be at peace,” Teague stated. “Simply be fairly and be a factor to be petted on.”

Initially from Roswell, New Mexico, Teague is used to having distinctive ideas and experiences, such because the time she was driving from Hondo to Ruidoso.

“While you’re within the valley — , the mountains — you’re feeling such as you’re that large,” she stated, utilizing her fingers to make a small hole.

In the course of the journey, Teague stated she noticed a pink beam of sunshine that seemed to be flying.

“It wasn’t on the bottom the place I used to be,” Teague stated.

Based on Teague, the unidentified object landed in Corona, New Mexico, which is about 90 miles from Roswell.

“There was a army base (in Roswell), and that is how the UFO ended up there as a result of they went and picked it up,” Teague stated.

Whereas Roswell is thought for its extraterrestrial guests, Teague is aware of it extra for the place she met her first feline good friend, a white tabby.

“I used to be most likely 3 years outdated once I had my first cat,” Teague stated. “His title was Dos Veinte, which suggests 220 in English. Why? I do not know, however that was this man’s title.”

Teague attributes her love of animals to her upbringing and the sense of safety that animals convey.

“We cherished one another,” Teague stated of Dos Veinte. “He was at all times excited for me to come back house from faculty. We had him for a very long time.”

Teague’s love of animals is not simply prolonged to cats. It additionally reaches to canine and birds. Teague, govt director of the Animal Care and Adoption Middle, stated she moved her birds to her workplace so she may spend extra time with them.

“Ten canine, two cats,” Teague stated of her critters at house. “They’re simply a part of our household. A few quarter mile from the pavement as much as our house, I can pull up they usually know I am house. They begin chirping, hollering and speaking. The cats begin transferring round, and it is all loopy.”

Teague has been married to Darryl since 2005.

“I met him via his daughter, who’s now my stepdaughter,” Teague stated. “His daughter was working for me, and we simply began hanging out. He at all times made me giggle and that was one thing approach totally different from what I had earlier than (in my earlier marriage.)”

Teague and Darryl collectively have three sons, two daughters and 17 grandchildren.

“We misplaced our daughter (Valerie) all of a sudden in March. This shall be two years,” Teague stated. “Holidays are worse. We have now had nice issues come out of our marriage and our youngsters, sadly we have had that battle too. However we do have her youngsters to see her via.”

Teague stated her youngsters assume she does an superior job however that she additionally has been accused of being a perfectionist.

“I simply need issues finished proper,” Teague stated. “You recognize, and doing it in a superb, well timed method, and to have pleasure in what you do.”

Teague was employed as the manager director of the animal heart in February and has a transparent plan for the longer term.

“The targets are so as to add extra kennels so we are able to make the most of a few of the area that is wide-open area that is primarily out right here within the new constructing,” Teague stated. “That is a aim for right here, and naturally, to attempt to grow to be a no-kill shelter.”

Teague stated her main goal is to encourage higher accountability for pets, together with having them spayed or neutered.

“I believe we have made nice accomplishments right here,” Teague stated. “My workers is so loyal to me. With out them, I could not have finished it alone. … We simply wish to proceed to undertake these animals out.”