EXTRA EDITION OF MONDAY, APRIL 23, 2018 [PetPowellPress] We’re offering this extra edition because the needs are immediate. As are most needs in the animal world.
BRADY’S UNFORTUNATE ESCAPE
LEADS TO AWFUL INJURIES
This comes from Laura Macias who hustles to help small shelters on the southern side of Dallas -- they need foot traffic to get dogs such as Brady off death row.
Brady was rescued from death row at the Wilmer Shelter. As Laura notes, he was there in January and was being fostered.
“With the winds from a few days ago, the foster's fence blew down and Brady and 3 other dogs escaped the yard,” the note from Laura and her mission sidekick Leighann Hayden reads. “Two dogs were found safe. Brady and another dog were critically injured and found lying in the road after being run over. The other dog, Freya, had to be
euthanized.
“Brady is still alive but has two broken legs and needs special orthopedic surgery to survive.”
There is a Youcaring site to help fund the potentially $5,000 in vet care that Brady will need. Laura says you can see the x-ray at the Youcaring site. It is HERE https://www.youcaring.com/pawssupport-1169656. Laura and Anessa Diangello set up this site.
The note continues, “This sweet, sweet dog Brady deserves to survive and get his happily ever after. Please. As said before, Wilmer dogs have had people quit on them before. Please, don't let that happen again.”
To contact Laura about helping with Brady or any of the Wilmer and Red Oak shelter animals, email cat_girl_71@yahoo.com or CALL or TEXT 214-949-2726.
DOG: AN ADDISON’S VICTIM NEEDS HELP
CATS: 3 VICTIMS OF FATE NEED A HOME
These two situations come to us from our longtime tipster, the rescuer and animal advocate Gail Whelan.
She lives in East Texas but she gets requests from help all over including this call about Norah who lives in the Fort Worth area.
Is that not a great photo of a dog sleeping in a chair? Count the legs reaching to the floor.
Here’s the story:
“She is a medium-sized Great Pyrenees mix, four years young, spayed, current on all vaccinations, heartworm negative and on preventative. She has lived with another dog and a cat. Norah's guardian has found himself without a job and homeless. What's the catch? Norah has Addison's Disease [malfunctioning adrenal glands]. She is in great shape thanks to her guardian making sure she sees the vet once a month for her meds. This is NOT the typical case of a crappy owner not taking care of their dog and then leaving it for someone else to worry about. I realize that it is not cheap to take care of an Addison's dog, but she did nothing to deserve being in this position.”
The goal is to find a home for her by May 1 -- that’s a week from Tuesday.
Gail is the contact at 903-967-3226 or can.adoptions@yahoo.com.
She’s also the contact for these three cats. The cats need help because their human is “going into assisted living” and the cats “have nowhere to go.”
They’re 5-year-old siblings -- the Tuxedo is Suzy Belle. The gray cats are a male and a female -- you can’t identify them from their mugshots, as people familiar with feline anatomy know. Again, reach Gai lat 903-967-3226 or email can.adoptions@yahoo.com.
CONTEMPLATIONS: President and Founder of Real News PR Jeff Crilley, the former TV newsman who did a lot of critter stories at Channel 4, reminded us Monday of one of the most interesting marketing moments ever in the history of the nation. It was on April 23, 1985, that Coca-Cola introduced “New Coke.” Consumers were outraged. They didn't need a new version of Coke. “Coca-Cola Classic” then showed up on the shelves to calm the panic among Coke fans. Here’s the CBS
report -- how about that Dan Rather! -- from 1985.
And USA Today, in 2014, listed New Coke as one of the “7 biggest business blunders ever committed.” Here’s THAT LIST. There’s even a familiar Dallas/Texarkana name listed. ... The world goes through periods that can best be described as “unsettled” -- you just hate it when someone monkeys with your habits, i.e., a familiar taste out of a can. It occurs to me, now, that people who are 33 or younger missed this whole fizzy kerfuffle in a can. They’ve been concentrating on the biggest blunder of the 21st century -- not the Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction. Not sure what it is. ... So what are we left with as far as uneasy moments? Hmmm. The whole Hollywood “casting couch” scandal and its cousins in politics, business, education, c.? How about the evolution of print journalism from a multipurpose paper product to an online product that is no help at all when it comes to birdcages and training puppies.
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