EDITION OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2016 (PetPowellPress) -- Welcome to Friday, the day that lifts some from despair, makes others happy and, still, we have time to shop for Valentine’s Day.
It’s Sunday and don’t you wonder how that affects flower shops? Are the big deliveries to offices made on Friday or on Monday? Well, that aside, let’s just remember that love is a pretty handy thing on this planet.
Which reminds me, perhaps you saw the big news Thursday that a scientific team has discovered gravity waves, just like Einstein predicted. (Cats knew about these things years ago -- you think they can just suddenly appear beside you without scientific understanding of travel via unknown waves?)
What does finding these gravity waves mean to us in North Texas? Something besides fracking to blame for the earthquakes.
That's my cat companion, The Senator, bracing himself for the arrival of gravity waves. He learned about this years ago when he was serving on the Senate Committee for Scientific Sitcom Advancement.
Now, today’s report as we wonder how soon The Big Bang Theory will work gravity waves into the scripts.
A SHORT-TERM FOSTER NEEDED
This is a lake situation -- well, a situation originating out at the lake, Cedar Creek Lake, about an hour east-southeast of Dallas. That’s a suggestion that you might be able to help with this and not spend a lot of time on the road or money on gasoline.
Naturally we first got word of it from our longtime tipster, the reliable Sydney Busch of Friends of the Animals at Cedar Creek Lake which operates the world’s most successful spay/neuter clinic at Gun Barrel City.
She forwarded a note from Lanette Ainsworth who’s on the board of the Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake -- that organization runs the shelter at Tool, not far from Gun Barrel City.
[LARRY ASIDE: Heck, the whole world is close to Gun Barrel City if you’ve got a map and a mood to travel. Has to do with taking advantage of gravity waves.]
This dog is the focal point of the note. Bonnie is a 35-pound shepherd mix, very sweet and a year-and-a-half old.
Why does she need a temporary foster home? Because (a) it’ll get her out of the shelter and (b) she’s destined for New York in March. She’ll be traveling via the Love on Wheels program.
Sydney explained, “This program has pulled some possibly unadoptable dogs (mostly due to size - grrr) from the shelter for a great chance at a family... They go to upstate New York where it would seem there's a lack of medium/large dogs - HA! Do you think Texas will ever get to that point? HA, I say.”
FYI, Lanette is playing a major role in the 4th Annual Whiskers & Wags Gala April 23 at the Athens Country Club. The event benefits the Friends of the Animals at Cedar Creek Lake and the Humane Society of Cedar Creek Lake. That’s the artwork for the event and you can see how to help and how to buy tickets HERE. See the Friends’ Facebook page HERE and read about the Humane Society and its adorable adoptables HERE.
That’s Suede the Dog, a year-old pink-nosed fellow, and the cat is Jenny, who, at a year-and-a-half, clearly enjoys being held and cuddled.
[LARRY ASIDE: What’s will the money do? The two groups are combining efforts to build a rocketship to send people who are mean to animals to Pluto. I’m kidding. The proceeds will support the lakeside spay/neuter efforts.]
A COWTOWN CURIOSITY
Dian Wright forwarded this note about someone who is raising money to try to save a blind steer who was part of the Fort Worth Livestock show and has been sold for slaughter, apparently.
The link is HERE and at that link you can connect to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram story about Oatmeal the blind steer.
[LARRY ASIDE: Yep, in spite of all the changes in journalism in the greater metrosprawl, you can still count on the Star-Telegram to do a cow story in Cowtown. By virtue of my experience in journalism, I can tell you that my old paper, the now-defunct tabloid, The Fort Worth Press, would have already done this story and, by now, that steer would have been having coffee in the White House. The Press was small, but when we wrote about matters of the heart, nobody was better. Save the steer. And, as a vegetarian let me suggest, “Save all the animals on the menu.”]
CONTEMPLATIONS: Places I’d like to eat again but would need a time machine: Picadilly’s Pizza Parlor in downtown Shreveport; the Jefferson Coffee Shop in downtown Texarkana; the basement version of the Italian Inn, a Fort Worth standard with singing waiters. I’m sure I’m not the only person who misses places that were once landmarks in civilization. Send your thoughts to dallrp@aol.com. ... Here’s one for daydreaming: Best scene during a vacation? How about a storm “flowing” in over the mountains at Santa Fe as an autumn sun was setting? Beyond beautiful. ... Here’s something beautiful, too. We’ve been reporting the past couple of days about Amy Poskey’s attempts to get “Liberty” the dog out of Denton’s Linda McNatt Animal Shelter. He was described as old. And he was named “Liberty” because he’d been picked up on Liberty Road -- a stray. But his people showed up and claimed him. Turns out he was 17. He’d been called “Liberty” but what was this handsome ol’ guy’s real name, the name he yearned to hear while he was in the shelter? Amy did some sleuthing and discovered that Liberty, ladies and gentlemen, is really good dog Zeke. Perfect name for a perfect dog. May he feel the love and wag his tail whenever anyone says, “Good boy, Zeke.”
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