DATELINE: DALLAS Where Having Run Out of Complaints About the Heat, We Turn to the Cold, Texas (Nov. 12, PetPowellPress) Goodness, you know how cold it was in North Texas on Tuesday. Well-digger in the Klondike? Let’s NOT have lunch out on the patio cold?
How about let’s tie our necks to one end of a rope, the other end of the rope to a tree or post or pipe and lay around in the yard waiting for food and water? How about that cold? Read on and, geezalou, somebody get mad about this and do something to help the human who is trying to help the dog.
THE LANCASTER DOG AND THE CHALLENGE
Tomi Ortiz is not new to rescue. She’s not new to seeking help with rescue. And she’s certainly not new to what appear to be impossible situations. But she’s got one in Lancaster, just across I-20 from Dallas, that is beyond perplexing.
You wouldn’t send a dog out in weather like this, would you? Well, Tomi’s found somebody who has and will and here’s her note from Tuesday, the coldest day of the season so far.
Tomi writes, “Do you happen to know of any local organizations that donate dog houses? There’s a dog in Lancaster that I have been trying to help for the past couple of years. If you look through your old emails I’m sure you’ll remember.” [LARRY ASIDE: She’s right. I’ve still got the emails.]
She continues, “The situation has not changed at all for this dog. I’ve watched that poor dog grow up tied in front of the house on Marsalis St. I’ve reported him to the city council man that tries to help, the SPCA, as well as animal control. The SPCA and animal control have visited the house but since he has a bucket of water and food scattered they say they can’t do anything. He has a very small dog house next to him that has boards missing so it’s no shelter at all, he has dug a ditch in front of the house where he just walks back and forth. In this weather it breaks my heart to think of him cold and shivering AGAIN! I don’t have a lot of extra $$ so I can’t purchase a dog house on my own for him/her. I tried to reach out to PETA but didn’t get a response. Thought it was worth a shot to ask if maybe there’s someone out there that can help? Maybe someone out there has an old dog house that’s in good shape that they don’t need? Thanks for listening to me.”
Dear Readers, we don’t have a photo of this dog yet, but words paint an awful, torturous picture.
In a subsequent note, Tomi touched on one more awful tragedy of this story. “It’s so frustrating driving by and seeing this poor dog like that. It’s even sadder seeing the kids playing in the front yard of this house growing up thinking this is how ‘dogs’ should be treated. All down this neighborhood are dogs roaming around, matted etc. There’s a house across this street from this one that had 2 dogs, that, of course, had puppies, and now those puppies are growing and eventually will have more puppies. But that’s a story for another day…the drama never stops in Lancaster that’s for sure!”
If you can help, email Tomi at [email protected].
[LARRY ASIDE: Remember, also, that what we have here is not an animal problem -- it is very clearly a human problem. Save the animal, then work on helping to enlighten the humans.]
A PIT GIRL WHO NEEDS A BREAK
You’ve run into these stories before. A hero is trying to help a dog. The dog is Blue and Christie Hansen sent this note in the cold of Tuesday in hopes of finding some warmth. She’s a vet tech at Buckner Animal Clinic and she wrote, “We have a 2 year old Pit Bull that was dumped at our clinic.
She has been here a year last October and per our Vet, she has to go today. I am taking her home with me today and am trying to find a home for her because I can't stand the thought of her going to a shelter and possibly being euthanized. I already have 3 dogs and I'm at my limit for Mesquite. ... She's a great girl and up to date on everything but will need to be spayed. ... She gets a long with my Pit, Lily. She is full of energy because she has been here for so long. She will do well with another animal or alone.” To help this pup email [email protected].
THE FACES IN IRVING
Russell Posch, the photo-takin, shelter-walkin’ life-savin’ angel who monitors Irving Animal Services, sent us a load of photos from the November 11 inventory at the shelter and one of the dogs has this magnificent face-- it is the face of a great dog. Her name is /Andrea and she is 24271020 -- said to be a retriever cross, she’s about 3, weighs 70 pounds and is friendly How’d she get into the shelter? She was a stray. So, Andrea is probably not her real name unless the shelter’s psychic is unusually gifted and if that’s the case, why, heck, ask the psychic where the dog lives, you know?
See that photo with all the tiny pictures? That’s the current dog inventory at Irving.
You can read about these dogs -- and there are a ton of Chihuahuas and you can imagine how many it takes to make up a ton of Chihuahuas -- by clicking HERE. To see the “urgent” dogs, click HERE. See the shelter’s adoptable cats HERE.
The rescue hotline is 972-721-3597 and you should email [email protected]g and [email protected]. The shelter’s business numbers are 972-721-2256 or 57.
CONTEMPLATIONS: An email arrived yesterday suggesting five “getaways” and they were "Peru, Branson, Ireland, Dallas, San Antonio." That's like the answer to one of those intellect tests that says, “Pick two things that don’t belong.” Make your own suggestions, but Peru is fascinating, Ireland is fascinating, San Antonio has the Alamo and Mi Tierra and ... well, Branson and Dallas -- one has mountains and the other doesn’t. ... At first glance this photo may look like another picture of a Dallas park. But, you see that framework in the middle of this amateurish photo? That is a Christmas tree. (Click on the art to make it expand like your Christmas dinner pants.) The workers on the thing were wrapped up for winter Tuesday -- and probably wondering, “Why didn't we put this thing up on Monday?” It’s the first big Christmas tree installation in the entire state of Texas, maybe. Anybody got an earlier one -- not counting the one Martha and I keep glowing in our living room year round. ... I find great comfort in the arrival of the holiday season -- for me it begins on Labor Day and stretches through St. Valentine’s Day. Now and then it includes the Texas Rangers baseball season. Didn’t in 2014. There is still hope for 2015, but it’s early in the off-season. You can always monitor the Arizona Fall League where one Texas Rangers pitcher made the all-star league and the championship will be played Saturday. And Texas Rangers multi-zillion-dollar ace Yu Darvish is due back in Texas from Japan to get an MRI on his throwing wing. His arm left him with 5 weeks to go in the season, just about the time Skipper Ron Washington left. What a wacky season. Like the holiday season better.
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