EDITION OF WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 2015 (PetPowellPress) -- June was National Adopt a Cat Month and July is National Hot Dog Month. No known connection but that’s the way freedom works in America. For example, August is National Catfish Month -- don’t know if they’ll need fosters and adoptions, but be prepared. No National Dogfish Day. Yet. Matter of time.
All that aside, let’s talk cats and dogs.
IT WAS A CLOSE CALL...
Last Friday I got a note from Karen Lee, the Barkleyworld.com animal advocate and big-time supporter of the GAP Club Rescue in Euless.
In desperation it read, “URGENT!! Remix bit someone and is now in quarantine. He will be euthanized unless we find an approved foster or a rescue. He cannot be adopted out of the shelter and can only come into GAP through a foster. He play-bites and gets a little rough—he’s been in the shelter for quite some time and is probably stressed out.” The biting was an aberration and the rescuers who’d been with him said he “loves to be held, and would be a 10 on a social scale! What a gorgeous and awesome boy!!!” and someone added, "This has to be the sweetest cat the shelter has had for a long, long time.” That is Remix's mug shot.
But you can tell by the second photograph -- first toilet photograph Readlarrypowell.com can recall posting -- that there was a triumph.
On Tuesday, Karen told Readlarrypowell.com, “One of our volunteers found a friend to foster Remix and he and Remix fell in love!! He says Remix follows him everywhere—and is so happy he’s potty trained!”
Yep, adopted and already the king of candid camera work. And Readlarrypowell.com’s theory is Remix’s new human should establish a Toddler Training Academy with Professor Remix.
[REMINDER: There are more GAP animals waiting for adoption and fostering -- check out GAP Rescue on Facebook HERE . To volunteer to help, email [email protected].]
Stacey “The Stylist” Carney, our west-of-Fort Worth tipster, sent a note about this cute little girl. She’s “Code Red because of skin issues” in the Weatherford Parker County Animal Shelter. To help her beat the odds, call the shelter at 817-598-4111.
ON THE CLOCK IN LANCASTER
The deadline for helping these animals is 3 p.m. Wednesday, according to a note from out Lancaster Animal Shelter monitor Tomi Ortiz. “Mortal Danger” is the code Lancaster folks use for the almost certain euthanization of animals.
The shelter is at 690 E. Main in Lancaster. Call 972-218-1210.
Who are these critters? (Click on the art to make it larger.) Here’s a list by name -- and a note that there are "all kinds of kitties" -- all comments are from the Furbabies of Lancaster site:
“Lillianna: A 2-year-old Pointer mix, she walks well on a leash and loves scratches. She is probably a 7 or 8 on the energy scale and would require at least a 6-foot fence. She is spayed.
“Puppy: A year-old Lab mix. This dog is a big ole lap dog and just wants to be with you. He is good with other dogs and he walks well on a leash. Sweet sweet sweet. (Per volunteer- this dog is so much fun to be around he has a good spirit about him and loves to just hang out with you. He has enough energy to play with but then is calm enough to just lay around the house with you.)
“Zorro: A 5-year-old Collie mix, he is on the smaller side, weighing only about 35 lbs. He walks well on a leash, is good with other dogs, and he is neutered. [He has a rescue group if someone will foster.]
“Okley: A year-old Shepherd mix, he is on the quiet side in the shelter but once out he is awesome. He loves to be loved. He walks well on a leash and seems to get a long with most dogs
“Pooch: A year-old Blue Pitty, he is very scared and shy in the shelter but once out he is okay. He is going to need someone to give him lots of love and kindness. He loves to be rubbed and loved on.”
A LITTLE JURASSIC-STYLE BOOK NEWS
Those computer generated creatures in Jurassic World aren’t the only entertaining dinosaurs walking the earth these days. There’s this fellow, TeddyT-Rex, the lead character in the anti-bullying book The Dinosaur’s New Shoes. And Teddy T-Rex is even getting air time! His book was written by James S. Martinez and illlustrated by Timothy T. Civick -- it’s one of several books by the team and there are more coming. In the meantime, you can hear James as he is interviewed by Arden Moore on her Pet Life Radio Show Oh Behave. Here’s the LINK.
CONTEMPLATIONS: Here’s a creative note. My former column editor at the big paper downtown, John C. Davenport, is a successful playwright these days -- as he has been for years. His Clean Routine was recently produced in Los Angeles as part of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. He’s got plays being produced from coast to coast to coast this month, from North Caroline on the East to Washington on the west and Houston on the South. Nothing going in the Gulf of Canada, but it’s early in the month. Here’s the lineup for July: Psyche, With an E, produced by Red Mask Players, Danville, Ill.; Life-Changing Email, staged reading presented by Friends of Cashiers Community Library, Cashiers, N.C.; Bloom and Clean Routine, produced by Seattle Playwrights
Circle at Phoenix Theatre in Edmonds, Wash.; and We’ll Always Have Memphis, produced by Pandora Theatre, Houston. And in August, Life-Changing Email and Oldest Living Human will be produced by Otherworld Theatre for Paragon Sci-fi and Fantasy Festival, Chicago. What does all this mean? It means that sometimes a newspaper isn’t big enough for the talent it hires. The playwright Davenport was a darned good editor. ... Nature walks are good for the brain says a story in the Washington Post, so, in a vintage phrase, “Take a hike.” ... Anybody else remember the “50 Mile Hike” of the JFK Era? The prez was a big fitness nut, according to his pre-presidential writing in Sports Illustrated, and wanted Americans to be fit. Another idea from Washington that didn’t work out, the critter writer said heftily.
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