Collars, Cowboys & Coliseum Deals: The AniMoWins Pilgrims Reach St. Charles on the 4Wins5 Justease Route 🎄🐕
- Aaron W. Wemple
- Dec 6
- 5 min read
Updated: Dec 8
Arrival at 4 Unway Balance: St. Charles Dock
The AniMoWins Pilgrims finally spot the little dock they’ve been hunting for: a dry‑dock landing marked “4 Unway Balance – St. Charles Port.” The 4Wins5 Mill eases up to the riverfront, past twinkling lights and brick warehouses that remember older kinds of deals—grain, riverboats, and coliseum games where the house always seemed to win.
Tonight’s meeting is different. Around folding tables set under patio heaters, a mixed crew waits: modern “cowboys” in weathered boots and ballcaps, “indians” in data and design roles, and coliseum‑style budget keepers with binders full of line items. They’ve all heard rumors that a strange boat is sailing upstream with gifts that can turn Terminal 1Win Games Loose Guaranteed into something gentler and more just.
When Old Deals Meet New Collars
The cowboys and commoners come expecting a lecture about budgets and blame. Instead, Thera-B quietly places a glowing Gold Bar Collar on the table and says, “Old rescue dogs brought brandy. Stand Pets bring #NewGold.” Two local dogs—one thick‑coated farm dog, one nervous rescue mutt—step forward as if they already know this meeting is really about them.
Bionic Finns explains that the collar is not just a shiny accessory; it’s a #NewDeal. A promise that this dog is trained as a Screen Angel—a Stand Pet who knows how to Thera‑Nudge a child, a parent, or even a tired budgeter out of a digital trance when the “feed freeze” hits. The cowboys glance at each other; their spreadsheets have never offered that kind of line item before.
Cowboys, Indians & Coliseum Budgeters Try New Game
The coliseum budgeters spread out their binders—pages of losses, overages, and “kids’ programs deferred until next year.” Normally, this is where the arguments begin. Tonight, Braveheart suggests a different scoreboard: How many kids came back from their phones more nourished than when they left?
They test a small exercise. One cowboy family, one “indian” designer, one budget keeper, one Stand Pet, and one child gather in a circle on the dock. The child is invited to draw how it feels to be “stuck in the feed” on one side of a page, and how it feels when their dog nudges them back to reality on the other. When the drawing is done, the budgeters realize this is the first time they have measured a “line item” in feelings, breaths, and eye contact instead of dollars alone.
Gifts Exchanged at 4 Unway
As the river air turns sharper and a hint of snow drifts over the water, the group moves into a simple gift exchange. The Pilgrims lay out what they brought from the 4Wins5 Mill:
A Screen Angel Starter Collar for each of the two local Stand Pets.
A mini AniMoWins coloring kit for the counseling office—Bionic Finns scenes and 7 Coral Vitamin pages so kids can process feelings with crayons instead of only forms.
A one‑page 4Wins5 Justease Add‑On, a side-law supplement the budgeters can clip to existing agreements to track “Nourished Minutes” recovered from doomscrolling each week.
In return, the cowboys and coliseum budgeters offer something the Pilgrims actually need for the long winter voyage: fuel vouchers, a warm storage bay for extra books, and an open invitation to present at the next county meeting about the Gold Collar Corps. Nobody declares a formal winner, but everyone leaves the dock sensing this is what a true 4Wins game feels like.
Whispering Gators & the First Bionic Finn Collar
While everyone trades gifts on the dock, something else stirs beneath the pilings. Down in the cold, brown water, a ring of Alienare Gators circle the 4Wins5 Mill’s shadow, their scales made of torn contracts, budget sheets, and broken notification icons. They grumble in low, bubbling voices:
“Look at them, port‑hopping again,” one Gator hisses. “Always sliding in where the animal‑exchange facility budgeteers can’t pin them down.”
“Unity, unity, unity,” another mocks. “Those great divisive‑in‑the‑name‑of‑unity debaters up there are supposed to keep families busy arguing, not wrapping new collars for dogs.”
A third Gator, scarred with faded meat‑packing logos along its side, snorts. “Remember when the sump at the bottom of the pump almost took that little calf? Braveheart was supposed to go through the grinder like the rest of them. Now he’s up there laughing with budget keepers and giving kids crayons.”
Up on the dock, the collar they’re muttering about gleams under the string lights: an early‑edition Bionic Finn Collar. It has a sturdy metal buckle engraved with the words “Bionic Finn”, a strong leash hook, and a dark nylon strap patterned with tiny Thera‑B bees and 4Wins5 Justease honeycomb symbols—quiet reminders of what the Pilgrims built on board the 4Wins5 Mill.
This first edition is reserved for early supporters and sustainers—families and partners willing to help test Screen Angel training in real homes, with real pets, before the old systems even know what’s happening.
Bonus Gift: Test the Online Game
Before the 4Wins5 Mill leaves St. Charles, the crew leaves one more gift on the dock—a small sign with a QR code and a link:
“Early Release: Stand Pet Memory Game – Open to Everyone”Play the test game here: RescueReserve.org/Test-Game and tell the crew what you think in the comments below this article.
It’s their way of inviting kids, parents, counselors, cowboys, budgeteers—and maybe even a curious Land Gator or two—to try a tiny piece of the new world the AniMoWins Pilgrims are building, one Bionic Finn Collar and one #NewGold moment at a time.
A Faint Glow from Downriver: St. Louis and Santa on the Mississippi
Later that night, back on the 4Wins5 Mill, Teddy checks the star map and river chart. From the St. Charles dock, the glowing arch of St. Louis is just a curve of light on the horizon, humming with Winterfest, ice skating, riverboat caroling, and “PJs and Pancakes with Santa” cruises on the Mississippi.
International Animal Rights Day is coming up on December 10, and the Pilgrims have heard rumors of a very special “Santa on the Mississippi” event: kids in pajamas, cocoa in hand, carols echoing off the riverfront, and families eager to make memories that don’t live only inside their phones. It sounds like the perfect place to unveil something new: the world‑premiere activation of a fully animated Screen Angel + Stand Pet team, live from the Gateway Arch riverfront.
Bionic Finns peers ahead through the dark water. On the navigation chart, a small golden icon has appeared near the Gateway Arch, marked simply: “Dec 10 – World Premiere: Screen Angels Remember Their Rights.” Thera-B double‑checks the 7 Coral Vitamins list, Braveheart tightens his red cape, and the two newly collared St. Charles Stand Pets curl up on deck, ready to sail as official Screen Angels‑in‑training.
Next Destination
As the 4Wins5 Mill pushes off from St. Charles and turns its bow toward the glowing Arch, the crew can hear faint music on the wind—snatches of carols and children’s laughter from the Winterfest ice rink and riverboats below the monument. Somewhere ahead, Santa is trading his sleigh for a Mississippi riverboat, and a crowd of kids in pajamas is about to meet a new kind of rescue story where animals have rights, families have rest, and screens don’t get the final say.
What will happen when Santa on the Mississippi meets the AniMoWins Pilgrims, a boat full of Stand Pets, and the very first fully animated, some sat bionic, Screen Angel?
That story launches on December 10, International Animal Rights Day—in the next chapter of the voyage.
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