EDITION OF FRIDAY, MARCH 18, 2016 (PetPowellPress) -- It’s a Friday. Let’s see what we can do for the sake of humanity and critters.
We’re going to get to the late dog Mercy in contemplations.
April is Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month. A month isn’t enough around here. Neither is a year. We have too many idiots and demonic nitwits.
LOOKING FOR YOGI
Oh, goodness. Missing family dog. Stephanie Muzney of C.L.A.W. (Citizens League for Animal Welfare) in Canton, sent the note about this 10-year-old Schipperke, Yogi. He, quoting from the note, “went missing (presumed stolen) during this past First Monday; he was the only dog taken from yard in
Gun Barrel City. He is not neutered nor microchipped.”
Yogi was last seen on Highway 334 near Legendary Lane in Gun Barrel City. The contact point is 903-603-0615.
Stephanie asks, “Has anyone seen this dog in your shelter, vet clinic, online, at a rescue.....??? Please share!!! They are desperate to get their pet back!”
As you can see in the photo, this dog is beloved.
AN AUCTION ONLINE
Yep, the future has been online a while. So Take Me Home Pet Rescue is taking advantage of the opportunity to raise some money to help rescued animals. Click here.
CONTEMPLATION: THE ANIMAL CRUELTY SITUATION
HOW MANY FACES OF ANIMAL CRUELTY DO WE NEED?
April is Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month. A month isn’t enough. A year isn’t enough.
Some of you may have read the appeal on behalf of animals in Sharon Grigsby’s column in the big paper downtown.
Sharon, who has been a writer or editor in this town for more than three decades, suggests that it’s time for “a full-scale overhaul in the way we look at animal issues in Dallas.”
Stop me if you’ve heard that one before -- off and on for about a century. Mostly off.
She suggests, too, that it’s time a city leader took up this issue. Well, the former Councilman Dwaine Caraway did manage to give a Key to the City to felonious dog-fightin’, kill ‘em with his bare hands Michael Vick.
Many of the rest of the elected officials in this town have ignored animal issues for as long as they’ve been drawing a breath.
Sharon, bless her heart for trying to get the attention of the village idiots, also wrote about Khaleesi, the Pitty girl that Dallas firefighters found at a house-fire with her throat slit. Her life was saved.
Sharon writes that the dog who “just as those firefighters were her heroes, Khaleesi (an NBC5 photo left), in turn, may be a hero for other dogs who suffer abuse. That’s because Khaleesi’s story puts a face on the need for the city of Dallas to create a strict protocol for how to handle animal cruelty investigations.”
First, how many more Faces of Animal Cruelty do we friggin’ need?
And, well, gee, stop me if you’ve heard this one, but doesn’t the Dallas County District Attorney’s office have a cruelty investigation unit? And, don’t the Dallas cops work on these things, too? Isn’t a law a law -- even if it involves animals? And don’t the elected officials around here have to beg for money to fund these crime-fighting units?
Governmental beancounters and their elected go-alongs are going to have a lot to answer for when the roll is called up yonder.
And, God bless Khaleesi and keep her safe, and let me repeat that we’ve had a face of animal cruelty here before.
Just a couple of weeks short of exactly 10 years ago, a thoroughly evil jerk named Deshann Quatrail Brown stabbed his dog, poured a flammable liquid on the Pitty girl and set her ablaze. Why? Because she wouldn’t mate with another dog.
She lived. A little while.
And then she died a painful death as veterinary professionals and praying animal advocates tried to save her. My angryspouse Martha spoke at the memorial service Jonnie England organized at Operation Kindness. That's the memorial for Mercy.
New District Attorney Craig Watkins managed to get a four-year prison sentence for the guy.
So, while we support the cry for more intensive and intelligent care of animals and animal
situations in the whole country as well as Dallas, we know that these are not animal problems.
These are people problems.
Something has to change in the hearts of the people -- from the elected officials to the kid down the street who thinks it’s fun to tease the dog, throw rocks at the cat, shoot birds out of trees...
We can’t just call for these changes every 10 years. Anybody else remember Justice the Dog (right on blue blanket) from 2012?
And how about that time in 2009 when two idiot teenagers just west of Balch Springs on the south side of Dallas set TWO Pit dogs on fire and sent them running out into the road.
Some of us even remember all the way back to 2001 when a little Dallas dog named Loco was in the news. He’d vanished from the back yard of Greg and Carol Autry’s home. A couple of days later, they found him on their front porch -- suffering. His eyes had been gouged out. No one every confessed to this crime or to finding the dog and putting him on their front porch.
But Loco went to Austin and on Sept 1, 2001, Loco’s Law made animal cruelty a FELONY in Texas for the first time. Gov. Rick Perry came to Carrollton and, in the lobby of Operation Kindness as Executive Director Jonnie England and scores of people including my dearspouse Martha watched, the governor signed the bill into Law.
Loco lived until 2013 when cancer did what evil humans could not. He was a celebrity. He was the face of cruelty, too.
So, we don’t need any more faces of animal cruelty. We need faces of people behind bars. We need people in psychiatric care. We need decency to triumph -- we NEED FACES OF DECENCY. We need to jail the bad guys.
After all, there’s plenty of proof that if these people will be cruel to animals, they’ll be cruel to people, too.
Yes, the problem of humans abusing animals is constant; the cure has to be constant.
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Here’s the LINK to the Grigsby appeal. Read it and get mad all over again.
