EDITION OF TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 2117 (PetPowellPress) – Personal note: This Is being written on my sixth day without petting a dog or cuddling a cat.
I haven’t gone this long without personal contact with a critter in decades.
It is disorienting. I’m on the brink of driving to the Texarkana shelter and renting whatever they’ve got handy. This is Higgins – he’s one of the guys available at Texarkana Animal Services. He’ll be in Contemplations later in this edition. I’m going to resist the urge, but only because the dog needs a home with people who aren’t already at the Dallas city limits. Besides, he looks like a dog who likes to flop over on the ground and our dogs all trained themselves to flop over on the couch or bed. But, if you’re near Texarkana and need a good critter, the shelter has some available.
IN THE MEANTIME, IN LANCASTER
Tomi Ortiz, our “eyes on Lancaster” tipster, spotted this quartet of dogs in a bit of a pickle at that city’s shelter. She monitors the Furbabies of Lancaster Facebook page – those volunteers keep up with Lancaster inventory and always try to keep ‘em in the public eye. Tomi wrote that the Furbabies
rescuers are “in emergency mode again! All these dogs listed look like they have the best personalities just based on their pictures. Spencer has the goofiest look on his face! He’s so Cute! Sierra has a sweet curious look, Toby is so unique and handsome, and Jones just looks like he’s oozing with “Swag”. I sure hope they all find their forever homes!”
According to the Furbabies folks, Jones, Sierra and Spenser need out immediately – there’s “nothing in the works” to save them. Toby needs a temp foster so he can be saved.
The shelter is at 609 E. Main in Lancaster.
Toby’s a male Huskey/Shepherd mix – a very think year-old intact dot who
“needs to be in a chicken-free home.”
Sierra is a Border Collie/Pittie mix with puppy energy. She’s house-trained.
Jones is a pink-nosed Pittie mix, a year old, “affectionate and super handsome.” And Spencer, a Lab mix, is grown, but weighs only 29 pounds – so there’s a smaller dog in his family tree. “Very sweet and well-behaved.” Call the shelter at 972-218-1210. Check out the Furbabies' site HERE.
SOMETHING GOOD HAPPENS IN DALLAS
Consider the photographs. Here’s the “happy story” published on the Dallas Animal Services Facebook page. “A City of Dallas employee alerted us to a kitten trapped in a storm drain downtown. Our awesome field team was able to get over there and rescue him - isn't he cute? #HappyTails.”
As you probably know, you can check into adopting the the storm drain kitten by getting in touch with the Dallas Animal Services & Adoption Center at 214-671-0249 or stopping by the shelter at 1818 N. Westmoreland at I-30. Email [email protected].
That same information will help you adopt any animal you spot on dallasanimalservices.org.
One of them is this big ol’Pittie [A0999373 ] cautiously stepping up onto the shelter’s scale.
[LARRY ASIDE: This dog was someone’s puppy at some point. Grow too big? Get replaced by another puppy? Growl at the wrong time after being a backyard stranger to the family? Geez, if only people would be good and decent to animals – that’s kind of asking a lot since people are not good and decent to people, either. Check out the “man killed” and “woman shot” and “teen killed” headlines in your local news media. Humans – we are collectively the dumbest species on this planet. Not to be negative, of course.]
Let’s get positive by looking at what surely is a cat with full entertainment potential. This is Rio, i.e., A0998345 at Dallas Animal services. [LARRY ASIDE: We have had two black and white cats like this one and each has had a dynamic cat personality unlike other cats of different colors. Who knows? They may have a tuxedo attitude in a khaki world.]
ZIVA’S STILL WAITING
The resolute rescuer and animal advocate Kimberly Jones reminded us of Ziva’s plight – we’ve mentioned it before – by forwarding a note from Sabrina Schwandt, a volunteer at the All American Dogs Animal Shelter in Pilot Point, just north of the Metrosprawl. Sabrina says English Mastiff Mix Ziva was spayed a few weeks ago. Sabrina writes that Ziva “weighs in at 168 pounds. She is massive.”
She’s also “sweet but chases cats. She LOVES belly rubs and people.”
Ask about helping her by email brina9042aol.com.
A TEXARKANA CONTEMPLATION:
This is Higgins’ story as plucked from the Facebook page of the Animal care & Adoption Center, Texarkana, USA.
What this report on Higgins does is remind us that North Texas has not cornered the market on unwanted Texas animals.
I saw three dogs while I was in Texarkana the past few days – kind of a remarkably low count. Could be that I just wasn’t looking in the right places – they don’t have a shelter there for nothin’, you know. Two of the dogs were playing in an apartment building parking lot – smaller dogs, wearing harnesses while a couple of guys watched them romp.
But earlier, I saw a big white dog with light brown splotches. I was looking out the fifth floor window of the hospital where Mom was a patient. The dog was sprawled in a yard, then got up. And, as I watched, he or she ambled across the yard, off the curb, across the street, onto a northbound sidewalk and walked on out of my sight line.
It was hours later that I realized that in Texarkana, with its lower, slower traffic and tone, that dog was just “walking away from home.” Didn’t have to run. Might have come back. Might have gone off to check the departure time for the bus to Dallas.
Higgins probably wasn’t a “walk away” dog – he’s got a “romp” gene. Someone needs to give him a place to romp.
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