A MID-WEEK ASSORTMENT: CATS, DOGS, FASTFOOD & COLD FRONT PREPARATION

EDITION OF AUGUST 14, 2019 [PetPowellPress] Once upon a time there was a very hot city. … Hang on. This isn’t a fairy tale — it’s been hot around here more than once upon a time. OK, enough whining about the weather, let’s move into the land of dogs and cats and the occasional human.
STILL LOOKING FOR HELP
WITH A CAT COLONY IN DALLAS
A week ago we reported on Marta Slobodián’s need for help managing a cat colony a couple of miles east of downtown.
 These are some of the cats being fed.

“I have been feeding homeless kitties since July 2018. I saw them one day by chance at the 7-Eleven and around the corner of the 7-Eleven in Dallas, on 111 N. Carroll Avenue to be precise.  A friend who used to rescue kitties helped me in rescuing a few. We took them to the vet; the little ones found foster homes and eventually were adopted. The bigger ones were trap/neuter/returned. I feed them every morning before I go to work. There are about 5-7 new kittens that should be rescued and the rest should be TNR if they are not tame-able and adoptable.  I travel quite a bit and can't feed them all the time. I need assistance. They are so unprotected, always hungry and run to me when I arrive.  Any sugges- tions/help would be greatly appreciated.”

So, there’s the situation: Marta needs a bit of relief in keeping this cat colony fed and monitored. Not every day. But maybe everyday if you’re enthusiastic about helping with a cat colony.
When we mentioned this last week, Marta got absolutely no response. So, having some faith in catfans, we’re listing Marta’s email: [email protected]. Offer to help her or offer encouragement or help with the breakfast bill.
You may also email [email protected] and reach readlarrypowell.com, the Dallas-based website that gives a hoot about cats in every Zip Code in Texas.
ANOTHER HEADS-UP FOR
CLEAR THE SHELTERS
This one came early Tuesday afternoon from Tami Kukla and it’s about her ambitions for Clear The Shelters Day Saturday at Fort Worth Animal Care and Control. 
She wrote to people on her mailing list, "This Saturday is Clear The Shelter and we need your help to find every pet at Fort Worth Animal Care and Control a loving home. I will be there all day and really hope each of you and your friends will join me as a volunteer and commit to help get at least two pets adopted. My personal goal is 25.” 

Then, later in the afternoon, on her Facebook page, Tami made an appeal for a Fort Worth shelter resident, Vinny (#42418066), about 6, a 45-pound Border Collie/Aussie mix who is neutered but, yes, as is the case for so many North Texas dogs, he is “heartworm positive and likely has demodex mange,” Tami wrote, adding, “He makes me sad.”
Tag Vinny by emailing [email protected] — don’t call the shelter. Fort Worth rules.

MEANWHILE IN LANCASTER
The small shelter advocates Laura Macias and Leighann Hayden sent a note about helping the Lancaster shelter population get some attention from humans — there’s little foot traffic.
Laura’s note read that these dogs (Honey the smiling American Bulldog mix; Sophie, the Heeler/Boxer mix with the long-as-a-whip tail) have been in the shelter “the longest. So very sad — very full shelter and we only have pictures of those there the longest at the highest risk. We have asked the shelter for more pics but this is still pending.”

Yep, the political disagreement in Lancaster may be affecting the lifespan of perfectly healthy dogs and cats.

To help the Lancaster shelter help the animals it is holding, call or text Laura at 214-949-2726 or email [email protected].
CONTEMPLATIONS:

MAC ’N’ CHEESE, IMPOSSIBLE & COLD FRONT
So, the announcements have been made: Chick-fil-A is introducing Mac ’n’ Cheese to the menu—oh, my. I don’t go to Chick-fil-A (not a real vegetarian hang-out). Online the nutrition list says the dish has 440 calories and 1200 mg of sodium. As my mac ’n’ cheese fanspouse Martha says wistfully, “All the good stuff has a lot of sodium.” ... Burger King is serving the Impossible Whopper. According to Prevention Magazine (prevention.com) the Impossible  patty — vegetarian friendly — is 240 calories with 370 mg of sodium. But when you dress that patty up like a Whopper, the calories are 630 and the sodium is 1,080. Yep, these are two dishes any teenager can eat and anybody else should consume in moderation and realize they cannot relive their teenage dining years. On a more impossible note: If I ever backslide on being a vegetarian, you’ll find me enjoying a double-meat and cheese What-a-burger with fries and a jalapeño and, of course, a Diet Coke to even things out. … Nobody knows how to be prepared for the weather like people in Texas. TV weather forecasters said Tuesday night that we were getting another cold front. You can blister your fingers putting snowchains on your tires during a cold front in August.
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