EDITION OF MONDAY, JUNE 12, 2017 (PetPowellPress) -- Let’s start the week with something upbeat with a Dallas connection. Remember this guy? Sawyer. Red Collar Rescue in Houston. Fostering by Kim Desell, daughter of Cathie, our longtime tipster.
Sawyer was the starving, injuring, ailing dog dumped at a Houston truck stop because -- well, the first note we got from our Houston tipster Alexandra Kelsey, said it best: “They had to dump him; he was too sick to run away.”
That’s him in the dog bed in the top picture -- his latest photo.
As Cathie says, “Sawyer is looking pretty good in this picture.” (You can see how sick he was in that early photo below.) He’s up to around 30 pounds.
He formerly was basically nothing but sores and injuries -- whatever weight he had apparently was all heart.
What’s he doing now?
Kim says, “The cats have a ladybug toy that makes noise when you pick it up. They have never played with it or cared about it. Sawyer loves it. He runs around the house with it in his mouth and tosses it in the air. He is so funny! Austin and Oliver are eating Sawyer's dry food right now. Everyone is opposite!!!”
To offer to adopt or help Red Collar help Sawyer finish his recovery, email [email protected].
SHELTER LOADED IN EULESS
I couldn’t resist posting these photos of two critters on the Trinity Gap Rescue website. That dog is Reggie and the cat doing the impression of Reggie is Olivia. They've probably never met.
Karen Lee, the dedicated animal advocate of Barkleyworld.com and the Euless Trinity Gap Rescue, writes that “the situation is critical” at Euless Animal Services because the shelter is full of cats and kittens and what makes things even tougher is this: “All of GAP’s current fosters are overloaded with felines. Please please take a look at all cats and kittens in need on our website:
http://trinitygaprescue.org/ Some are in the Euless Shelter and some are in foster homes and hoping for forever homes. Adopting a foster cat frees the home to save another shelter cat!”
The contact point is [email protected].
That Chihuahua mix is Penny and the big cat is Darri.
They’re needing homes. At trinitygaprescue.org, you can see not only the animals in need but link that takes you to a GAP Foster application and other ways to help. For info on pets or how to help them by fostering or adopting, email [email protected].
Follow Trinity Gap Club on Facebook HERE.
A WANDERUP DOG
WHO JUMPED INTO THE TRUCK
At readlarrypowell.com we’ve had so much luck with “wanderup” dogs and cats as memberas of the family that when we hear of one, we want to share the possibilities that someone may just find a good friend. This note came to us from the resolute spokesperson for Friends of the Animals at Cedar Creek Lake, Sydney Busch, who wrote, “This gorgeous, gentle very large dog showed up at Jacqui's house ... Neutered, NO CHIP... He is someone's dog...Near Purtis Creek...”
[LARRY ASIDE: the word "neutered" reminds me that the Friends operate the worlds most successful spay/neuter clinic at Gun Barrel City, Texas. You can get involved as a volunteer at their website. Donate supplies and money, too.]
How did Jaqui Callaway get this “old man” -- his neck looks like he’s been wearing a collar. “He jumped into my truck when I wasn’t looking. He is well-mannered and is obviously someone’s pet.”
Recognize the ol’ feller? Call 214-966-9049 or email [email protected] if you know the dog or if you have a home for this lakeside wanderup and jump in the truck dog. Bless his heart.
A BIG DOG IN A TOUGH SPOT
Kimberly Jones, the noted Dallas animal advocate and rescuer, forwarded this note from Sabrina Schwandt, a volunteer at the All American Dogs Shelter in Pilot Point. She wrote, “There is an English Mastiff Mix in this shelter named Ziva. She was spayed a few weeks ago and weighs in at 168 lbs. She is massive.
"Ziva is very sweet but chases cats. She LOVES belly rubs and people. We had taken her to an adoption event recently and she was returned because she chased the lady's cat and she didn't like the little Terrier Mix that she had. Now, I've seen Ziva with other dogs and she is fine, but for some reason, she wasn't fond of this Terrier.
"This shelter has upwards of 100 dogs and cats. They provide the animal control for 16 small north Texas towns such as Krum, Sanger, Ponder, Lowery Crossing, Hackberry, Aubrey, Krugerville, Shady Shores, Oak Point, Cross Roads....just to name a few! So, their intakes are high. When they run out of room, tough decisions have to be made. "
"Now, Ziva is NOT in jeopardy of immediate euthanasia, but since she was ‘returned’ it doesn't look good either. ... This shelter does NOT charge a pull fee for any rescues that are a non-profit or 501 3.c organization.”
Email [email protected] or call 927-213-4748.
WHAT ABOUT THE TREES?
Just in case you missed it, there’s the LINK to the great Robert Wilonksy’s opinion piece about the trees “topped” on Forest Lane in Dallas. [LARRY ASIDE: This writing-worth-reading ran in The Big Paper Downtown. Ah, Downtown Dallas -- where there’s probably not a single tree that wasn’t planted there because a landscape artist drew a sketch. Is anything “naturally occurring” in downtown Dallas? Not even the Trinity River runs in its original banks and Lord know how many creeks have been paved over by progress.]
CONTEMPLATION: Speaking of trees and naturally occurring beauty. On CBS Sunday Morning, the broadcast closed with some video work by Dallas photographer Scot Miller. The text reads, “We leave you this Sunday Morning with a front row seat as Egrets, Herons, and Ibises strut their stuff at a rookery in Dallas. Videographer: Scot Miller.” Here’s the LINK. You want to see more work by nature-supporting photographic artist Scot Miller, go to the Sun To Moon Gallery site. Scot told us Sunday afternoon that, as we guessed, his beautiful video was shot at the noted rookery on the western portion of the campus at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center between Harry Hines Blvd. and Stemmons Freeway, i.e., not far from the Trinity River as the Egret flies. [LARRY CONFESSION: I have regrets that I don't know those may not be Egrets. I know they're not Penguins.] The rookery even has its own Facebook page HERE. When I was an editor and columnist at The Big Paper Downtown (a job decades in the making), we’d have to cover stories now and then about “progress” attempting to level the rookery. The birds always won. Thankfully. Birds are more natural to Dallas than humans. Some day we ought to do a column about Frogtown -- next to the real route of the Trinity. OK, for another day. Enjoy the birds and thank Scot Miller for aiming the camera in the right direction for humans to see the natural beauty that deserves to survive on the planet.
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