EDITION OF FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2015 (PetPowellPress) -- We’re going to ease in the weekend with a slow-rollin’ Friday report.
Why? It’s the mood of the moment. Just relax and remember that life doesn’t have to be frantic. Sorry, I think I’m channeling one of our cats -- the mellow one. That doesn't narrow it down.
LIVECAM SANTA FE
Something great about the world: On Sunday morning, while the house was quiet, I clicked on the Santa Fean Magazine link to the live plaza cam in the beautiful capital of New Mexico.
I watched a guy sit on a park bench as the sun was up just enough to read. He carefully folded a white bag, spread it on the bench, put his cup of coffee on it, opened his newspaper, took a sip, looked up around the plaza and then started reading the paper.
Because of the internet you can see places you want to be while being in the places you put up with. Kind of a miracle world.
That’s a shot of the plaza on Thursday afternoon. Earlier in the week it was covered with snow.
Now and then you can see people leading happy dogs across the plaza.
All that great real estate used to belong to Texas, you know. That's the only way I could justify leaving Texas for New Mexico. That and the overwhelming influence of a winning lotto ticket.
RESCUED: WINNIE
(CATS ARE WAITING)
We posted a note about Winnie, the Lake Dallas shelter dog earlier in the week and Thursday afternoon, Lake Dallas Animal Services Manager Patricia Barrington sent a note revealing that Humane Tomorrow, the Rescue Group Formerly Known as the Humane Society of Flower Mound, had claimed Winnie.
We’re told Winnie already has adoption applications at Humane Tomorrow.
In the meantime, among the dogs needing homes at the Lake Dallas Shelter, there are a number of cats.
This is a partial cat gallery. To ask about any animal in the Lake Dallas Shelter, email [email protected] or call 940-497-7090.
GOOD NEWS FOR OLIVE
You may recall our note about Olive, the dog who showed up at the Denton McNatt Animal Shelter looking as if she’d been attacked by another dog (or, maybe, other dogs), face all mangled and eye injured.
Amy Poskey, the consistent monitor of Denton critters, sent this note, “I’m so happy to report that Operation Kindness will be pulling this precious baby tomorrow, Friday, 2/26!!! Thank you so much to EVERYONE for helping me network Olive!!! I will send an update and freedom pic as soon as she is SAFE!”
CONTEMPLATIONS: Here’s a Channel 5 (NBCDFW, NBC5, KXAS -- did I miss any other 21st century call letters?) story about the City of Dallas issuing citations in Dallas for violating the free-roaming dog law. Click HERE. Tickets will cost between $200 and $400 -- and that probably will come out of the dog’s food/veterinary budget. (Relax. Anybody who lets their dog run free will make sure it’s fed, fixed and up-to-date on shots. Right? And I am high-kicking in fishnets with the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.) ... Each day an outfit named Trivia Hive sends me an entertaining question. Thursdays was “How many photos are uploaded to Facebook every day?” I guessed 10 million because (a) I am out of touch with the rest of the world and (b) I had such hope that people were not always welded to their computers. The answer was 350 million. The U.S. population clock HERE said Thursday night that there are about that many Americans. Good grief. Some people are not posting. Some people are posting all the time. What did everybody do with their pictures before Facebook was invented? Or is the world more photographable now? ... AOL runs feature stories and Thursday afternoon, in advance of the Major League Baseball Season, it posted a story ranking the nation’s big league ballparks. This is a quote: “27. Globe Life Park in Arlington, Texas Rangers. Remember when this place was state of the art? Neither do we.” That’s unkind. And the place formerly known as the Ballpark In Arlington is a great place to watch a game, which is why you ought to go to the stadium. Not to get snide, but can’t remember when AOL was state of the art in sportswriting, either. Sorry, slipped into fandom. Not wrong to have an opinion about baseball in an election year, is it?
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