Tap and Frug and animals in need...

EDITION OF WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 2016 (PetPowellPress) -- Welcome to midweek as the month of May begins to slip away like the NFL East championship each autumn. 

You know, of course, that this is National Tap Dance Day. Why do I bring this up? Because I hardly know where to start today and I’m tap dancing around getting into this report.
Let’s just start -- and keep reading because we’ll also mention a Boxer mix named Lionel who needs to be moved out of a town.

Those two earhounds? They’re among the HUNDREDS of animals currently waiting for either adoption or rescue or the needle at Dallas Animal Services where the springtime $25 special is underway.
HUNDREDS. Astonishing, isn’t it? Only humans can help them. It’ll have to be different humans than the ones who fouled up and got them into the shelter in the first place. Go to dallasanimalservices.org to see the adoptables.
That’s Bolo on the left (with a pal waiting for something in a nearby grocery basket, the mode of transit at the shelter) and Buddy with the upright ears.
The dogs displayed here start with “B” because I didn’t have time to flip from A to Z -- lots of dogs on the DAS adoptables pages.


THE THEME OF THE DAY?
Tomi Ortiz, who monitors the Lancaster Animal Shelter and Furbabies of Lancaster’s Facebook site for us, saw the report yesterday about 400 animals at DAS and she wrote that “my heart just broke. I was debating looking at the Furbabies website but finally worked up the courage and this is what I read there:


“OVER-CAPACITY!! EMERGENCY NEED NOW NOT TOMORROW NOW OF ADOPTERS OR FOSTERS!! OR RESCUE WITH FOSTERS!! PLEASE HELP US SAVE THEM FROM DYING!! We have one rescue but need fosters. Please keep pledging to save their lives!! $200 pledged for Phoenix and her pups, $100 pledged Scoobie/Bear, $100 pledged for Joey, $50 pledged for Rocko. SHARE--CONTACT RESCUES. Lancaster Texas Animal Shelter, 690 E Main St, open M-F 8am-5pm. ALL ARE WORTHY OF A FUREVER HOME!!!”

And you see here Phoenix with a tender handshake and her unbelievably adorable puppies, Sugar and Spice. [LARRY ASIDE: Don’t you just want to get these three and give them a home! Or find them a home! How about just tummy-rubbing those puppies until they’re in a trance!]  Call the shelter at 972-218-1210. One of the things you’ll see that the Lancaster Furbabies Facebook page is a note of explanation and an appeal for patience and an expression of gratitude for the shelter supporters from the shelter’s overtaxed ACOs.]

ROWLETT, WHERE PEOPLE JUST KEEP TRYING!
You may recall the disappointment last week when nobody was able to save the beautiful dog Aztec from tragedy in the Rowlett shelter.
Dawna Carabajal, our longtime pal with the Friends of Rowlett Animals felt that in the heart.
She wrote, “While last week was rough with Aztec getting euthanized, this has already been a much better week. Dillon was supposed to be rescue only once his quarantine period was over, but he was so well behaved during his quarantine period the shelter decided he can go up for adoption. He can only go to a home without other pets, but he is an absolute love bug with people! (Dillon is reactive to other dogs at the shelter. One of the ACO's was handling him when he reacted to another dog and got the ACO. It wasn't a bad bite, but it did break the skin so he had to be quarantined.) We are super excited that Dillon will now have a chance to get his forever home. That’s Dillon and you can see an amusing video of him HERE -- he’ll turn a world on its side.
 
In the meantime, Dawna says, “The shelter is having an Adopt-a-thon this Saturday from 10am-5pm. All adoptions will be $25 (includes spay/neuter, vaccinations, and microchip). There will be face-painting for the kids, drawing contests with prizes, goody bags and pet food for adopters, and spin the wheel for prizes for adopters. There will also be pizza! There are some amazing dogs and cats at the shelter, including puppies and kittens.” 
There’s the poster -- click on it to make it larger than a pan of cat-head biscuits. (Some of you will need to interpret that ol’ southern term for your friends and loved ones.) By the way, don’t go to the Rowlett shelter looking for the extraordinarily beautiful Nova. She’s been adopted. How about those Ears! Those Ears! Those Eyes! Someone’s got a great-lookin’ dog.
And there’s still time to get in touch with Rowlett and adopt that beautiful cat -- Diva’s the name, purrin’s the game -- though when she’s done with the congeniality, the shelter report is, she’s DONE emphatically.
LIONEL IS IN A FIX

Haylee Grant is making this appeal on behalf of her dog Lionel. Here’s the story: “I have a 1.5 year old male Boxer mix. He weighs about 65 lbs. His last vaccines were in December of 2015 when we rescued him. We have not had him neutered but will pay for the procedure/get the procedure done if that is a requirement to be accepted into [a] rescue
“His name is Lionel. He is great with kids, other dogs both big and small and everyone he meets. He is very playful and friendly. Lionel would be best with a family who has a fenced backyard. I am having to get rid of him because he can no longer live within the city limits of Terrell. He got out of the fence and killed a stray cat and is considered a ‘dangerous’ animal in the city. He is a wonderful and beautiful dog and I know he will make a great companion.”
Email haylee0792@gmail.com or text 214-733-7561 to help her save Lionel.

CONTEMPLATIONS: If you’ve ever been acquainted with the mental illness, you know the challenges. You can see Texas Rangers Baseball Hall of Fame radio broadcaster Eric Nadel’s appeal for people to help in such matters by clicking HERE. It’s part of the okaytosay.org campaign to lift the stigma of mental illness so people will not shy from getting help when they need it -- before it is so sadly too late to get better. Eric explains it well in the video. ... Best least-expensive off the grocery shelf coffee: Community or 8 O’Clock? Both have gotten readlarrypowell.com through many a morning! ... Back to National Tap Dance Day -- declared to be May 25 by a Joint Congressional Resolution an signed into law by President George H.W. Bush in 1989. In honor of the day, here’s a COUPLE TO ENJOY.  FYI: National Square Dance Day is November 29 -- fair warning. Thanksgiving is the 24th. Tap burns more calories than square. Maybe. No offense to tappers or squares. You could try the Twist. Hold off on that Monster Mash until October.
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