A Monday collection, from the Fair to the Vick...

Our Monday arrives with a guarantee that the Texas Rangers will be playing post-season baseball.
Exciting enough, but there’s more: the State Fair of Texas opens Friday. Can this be the last week of September already? See www.bigtex.com. And the Dallas Animal Services folks, thanks to the volunteer work by DFW Rescue Me, will have adoptable animals at the fair this year – in front of the Centennial Building.
Don’t jump to the end of today’s report yet, but we have a great observation about Michael Vick.
Continuing: Autumn is already here and we missed the arrival? How’d that happen? 4:05 a.m. Friday – I must have been busy.  
Oh, yeah, on Friday I was busy. I was being hacked by something out there. We’ll address that in just a moment after I finish reminding you that you don’t have to fall back until 2 a.m. on Nov. 6.
FYI: The Tyrone McGill animal cruelty trial has been delayed until Nov. 7 – that’s the day jury selection will start unless (a) there’s a delay (b) there’s a plea bargain or (c) something else happens (that vague enough for you?). He’s the former Dallas Animal Shelter manager accused of allowing a cat to die inside a wall at the shelter.
And the Dallas Cowboys open their home season tonight in Arlington against Washington on Monday Night Football hosted by Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Howard Cosell. Oh, wait. That was back when the Monday night game was on real television. It’s on cable now and the broadcasters are... yeah. Only their loved ones know.
VSP DOGS: Dallas Animal Services has a VSP (Very Special Pet) list for animals scheduled for euthanasia though they are very adoptable and have been in the shelter at least 45 days. Last week there were 9 and 4 were claimed during the week and over the weekend one of the remaining dogs was adopted and Paws In The City claimed the other four. And we start this Monday with a new list scheduled for euthanasia on Oct. 4 – there are 13 dogs on this list. Thirteen. Paws In The City only has so much room and so much money. Other rescue groups are overloaded.  Bleak.
AN OLDER DOG IN CARROLLTON: Every week the folks at the Carrollton Animal Services shelter provide a list or two or more of animals that are on the week’s euthanasia list. This week, Wednesday is euthanasia day. So Tiana, this older Aussie mix, has until Wednesday to find a home or a rescue group.
She’s a 50-pound stray and she’s known to like treats and walks.
There are several dogs and cats on the list for Wednesday. See the Carrollton inventory HERE. Call the shelter at 972-466-3420 or e-mail [email protected].
DOG DAY AFTERNOON: Julie Goff of Operation Kindness, the no-kill shelter in Carrollton, reminds us that the annual Dog Day Afternoon fest is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (only a little bit in the afternoon!) Saturday (October 1 already!) at Flag Pole Hill at White Rock Lake in Dallas. Contests include best costume, stupid pet tricks, doggie bulldozer and best pooch smooch. There’ll be a pet psychic at the event, too. See details at www.operationkindness.org.
ABOUT THOSE E-MAILS  YOU GOT FROM DALLRP: A number of you got e-mails appearing to be from me starting Friday and going through the weekend. Unless they were from me, they were not from me – know what I mean? My e-mail address was hacked and someone or something began sending out messages that included odd links and, I’m told, viruses. We have a virus protection program on our computers, but somehow this one slipped through.
If you got an e-mail from me and it didn’t include a greeting, a sentence, a wisecrack or an angry epithet regarding a football betting pool, then it was spam and you should kill it. Don’t open the link, just kill the e-mail.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
CONTEMPLATIONS: For purposes of just getting things rights, here’s some solid info: It is “State Fair of Texas,” not “Texas State Fair.” Look it up.  ... Reading a story in the Texarkana Gazette over the weekend I saw a passage about a woman who owns an electronic reader who said the "best part about owning a Nook is never having to spend time going to a book store.” Good grief, What is wrong with America? Book stores are places of adventure and discovery – serendipitous discovery of an author or a book. Oh, yeah, you buy Nooks at a book store. I guess it’s a case of “Here’s your Nook. Farewell." ... My pal Carolyn Poh and I were discussing the fact that the felonious Philadelphia dog-killing quarterback Michael Vick had broken his right hand in Sunday’s game against the Giants and she offered this insight I thought you animal lovers would like to hear: “He can outrun tackles, but he can’t outrun his karma.”
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