EDITION OF TUESDAY, JUNE 13, 2017 (PetPowellPress) -- You know, I just thought I was sick of politics last fall. Interpret that as you wish and feel free to say, “Me, too.”
Here we go with some odd notes about rescue. You'll see the traditional theme: Some people are angels, some are tragically heartless.
THE ANIMALS THAT GET SAVED
They’re not all dogs and cats.
This note comes from Mark Cooper who leads The Colony’s Animal Services. He’s been a figure in animal rescue for a while -- Dallas Animals Services, Operation Kindness and The Colony. Here’s a post from last weekend. You rescuers will appreciate it, I think. He wrote:
“Animal rescue isn't a job, or a hobby... It's a mission or sometimes an annoying calling. But it's what we do when the need arises and an innocent creature needs our help. It just never happens at a convenient time!!! But it's always worth the effort and time.
"Jamie Bailey Gentry messaged me today. A tiny baby coyote followed her dog home. It's an orphaned pup that's very dehydrated and hanging on to life. I now have him and I've named him Wylie.
“Thankfully I have friends in wildlife rescue who came to my aid. I'm driving this cute little beast to a rehabber in Colleyville who will get him the medical attention he needs and when the time is right, they'll release him to the wild. Wish him luck!”
IN THE MEANTIME
While people are helping to save animals, other people are dumping them at a bad time. According to an email we got, these week-old puppies are in foster care now, but they wound up in the Seagoville Animal Shelter when someone dumped them there. Go figure. If we find out which group is fostering them, we’ll let you know.
SPEAKING OF DOGS IN A BOX
The Dallas Dogrrr folks posted this explanation with this picture:
“This is how Sally was found, taped up in a box in a dumpster like yesterday's trash. This is the stuff that nightmares are made out of. A monster made a decision to end Sally's life and thought he could get away with it, well that was not her path and the universe intervened.
“This poor puppy wagged her tail in hopes that someone passing by would hear her and find her and it worked. The box has blood splattered everywhere.”
Here’s the Dallas Dogrrr donation SITE.
When rescued, she was “in critical condition and we do not know how she did not run out of air,” the note read.
A later note read, “Although Sally is very frail and weak, this little puppy's tail is still beating like a drum. She has made it safely to the hospital. Here are the findings so far: It is difficult to get the bleeding to subside, she is running a dangerously high fever, she is dehydrated, oozing all over and one of the absolute worst cases of a skin infection that we have ever laid our eyes on. Her paws are so swollen and very painful to the touch. She will face a long recovery and we are desperate to get the fever down.”
CONTEMPLATION: This one is dedicated to my fellow vegetarians. For the first time in a long time on Sunday, we had a few spare minutes in early afternoon and decided to combine a quick shopping trip with a rapid lunch at an
Uptown burger place.
It was my turn to order and I said, “I’d like the veggie burger” and the young woman at the cashier stand says, “Black bean burger or the turkey burger.”
“The turkey is not a vegetable,” I declared confidently. I took college biology.
After a pause, and a flash of recognition from a moment in a distant science class, we finished the order with the blackbean burger on the way. (FYI: That's a Texas wild turkey on the left; a commercial turkey outfit on the right (appetizing, eh), and a blackbean quinoa vegan burger on the left. Which reminds me, why do people put ketchup on a hamburger with tomato? Redundant, eh?
As a longtime vegetarian I have come to realize that some people think anything that isn’t beef or pork is vegetarian. So, for the record: Turkeys, chickens, lambs, fish, crustaceans, bivalve mollusks and reptiles are not vegetables. I’m sure I left something off the list. Squirrels, ducks, raccoons, possums, deer, elk, moose, bear...Just for the record, my favorite vegetables are the hot biscuit and the glazed apple fritter. That’s why my scales groan. What's a blackbean quinoa burger taste like? Not like chicken. That photo on the right? Two mammals who like biscuits: The sleepy Porche Noel and her admiring companion.
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