Animals and people...adventures and crises...

We’ve awakened sleepy, but what else is new?
Here’s what we’ve managed to glean from the in-box at Readlarrypowell.com, your Pet News Place For People:
A DALLAS SCHOOL SITUATION: A Dallas teacher e-mailed us this morning. “As I type this, there is a handsome young pit mix curled up as much as he can get out of the wind against the building outside my classroom in this bitter cold. I saw him flash past my window about 20 minutes ago looking for food, shelter, a person – anything. “This teacher got some food for the dog but there is a complication. It is testing day at the school and the teacher can’t leave the classroom.
Minutes later, she sent a follow up e-mail. “He left.” So, Dunbar Elementary in Dallas' Fair Park area has one less dog on campus, but he or she is probably still wandering the neighborhood or, maybe, returning to the home from which he or she had slipped away. Maybe.
MEANWHILE ON A COLLEGE CAMPUS: Just as the “he left” message was arriving at Readlarrypowell.com, we got an e-mail from our pal Dianne Cole who reports that this really cute dog was found this morning on the campus of Mountain View College in southwest Dallas.
If you know the dog, know where the dog belongs or have a solution to helping the dog, e-mail [email protected].
They’re calling the dog Orso for now. He’s male, neutered, young and “very sweet and loveable.” There’s a theory that he lives in the neighborhood and, given the opportunity, may go home. But he’s being monitored just to make sure.
A WANDERUP DOG: We get this story courtesy of Sydney Busch of Friends of The Animals at Cedar Creek Lake. She forwarded the info about Sugar, described as “maybe the cutest golden retriever mix you'll ever see.”
She weighs 49 pounds is now spayed and vaccinated and loves kids and other dogs.
The story is Sugar “wandered up to the house of a kind person who cannot keep her but wants her to go to the right home - and that would mean NOT chained in a yard... The picture attached is terrible and does even begin to capture how beautiful she is.”
To ask about giving this dog a good home, call Linda Chance at 903-887-4150.
LOADED AT DENTON: Overnight a forwarded omigod e-mail arrived declaring that the Denton Animal Shelter was inundated with animals and something must be immediately done. Hard to argue with any of that, except maybe the tone that suggests the overloading of a shelter is something that has never before happened on the planet.
At any rate, the story was that the shelter took in 21 dogs yesterday. So I checked with the Denton Animal Shelter’s renowned volunteer Amy Pelzel who reports that, yes, that is accurate. Twenty-one dogs dumped in the shelter. Amy reports that “we did get two of those adopted – seven were tiny pups. We have a few rescues coming today for a few more. Think we will be OK unless we get 21 more in today! Crazy day yesterday!”
You may notice the photo. These German Shepherd/Heeler mixes came into the shelter as a litter of five – one has already been adopted. You can see the Denton adoptables and how to adopt them by clicking HERE.
I ran the photo so those of you who just have a one-critter household will know what a “Tub-o-Pups” looks like. They look like they need someone to care for them  and take them into a good home – that’s what they look like.
CARROLLTON REPORT: The three Carrollton Animal Shelter dogs – Adam, Dougie and Lil Rocky – are safe. Adam and Dougie have been adopted and Lil Rocky has been spoken for by a rescue group, reports the Carrollton shelter’s Animal Care Specialist Joe Skenesky.
That doesn’t mean Carrollton is without animals. Nope. Plenty left. You can see their pictures by clicking HERE.
I’m starting to think Carrollton specializes in animals named “Adam.” That dog is Adam (from the opening paragraph), but so is that little cat. Must be the name for animals with great faces.
To ask about any animal in the Carrollton shelter, call 972-466-3420 or e-mail [email protected].
BE ON THE LOOKOUT: Joy McKenzie is looking for the family’s lost Boxer Deuce, missing since last Thursday when he got out of the townhome near Montfort at the Dallas North Tollway. She says, “Our maintenance man tried to catch him, but he is a very shy dog and got scared and ran away. This is near the Galleria, Joy says. “We hired a dog tracker who tracked his scent to the neighboring apartment complex, the Villas of Montfort. That is where the track ended. It is the dog tracker’s thought that someone in that complex either has Deuce or pickled him up. We have posted numerous flyers, called every shelter in the area, reached out to vets, posted on internet sites and basically every other avenue you could think of.
“Deuce has a silver chain on but no tags (our lab chews them off constantly). He is microchipped and we updated the information... There is a substantial reward.”
If you know the whereabouts of Deuce the Boxer, e-mail [email protected].
SPCA IS CLOSED FOR THE DAY: All offices of the SPCA are closed today for special A.C.T. (Animal Care Training) sessions. Regular hours resume tomorrow. For your calendars: The SPCA facilities will close on the 2^nd Wednesday of each month for special training.
CONTEMPLATIONS: Computers are puzzles aided and abetted by the mysteries of programs, toggle switches and incantations. So far, so good on our technofixes today. Our Readlarrypowell.com  technospouse Martha is dangerously close to being named “Staffer of the Week.” She is up against Inky, the Cocker Laureate of the State of Texas, who qualifies by not having barked when the postman came by yesterday. He was the only one who didn’t. ... We’ve had enough winter. Too cold. ... I am about to tell an indelicate story that baseball people will appreciate and so will people who understand anatomy and the dangers of playing "the hot corner."  Last week when I told my little brother Garry that the Texas Rangers had signed a third baseman “famous for playing without a cup,” Garry replied, “What’s her name?”
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