EDITION OF MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2020 [PetPowellPress] Middle of the first full month of baseball and it’s good to see the Texas Rangers on top of the division. Yep, That’s another sentence I wish I could write. Like this one: “The right six numbers fell in Lotto Texas Saturday night and my to-the-manor-born funspouse Martha and I are looking for household staffing and new tires.” Priorities, you know.
All that aside, it is the middle of June and Holiday Insights says June 15 is National Nature Photography Day, Smile Power Day and — this has nothing to do with the presidential election — Global Wind Day. It's a wind power thing. Now, let’s move on. Hoist the sails.
PHOTOS FROM THE SHELTER:
FACES OF DOGS AND CATS
On Monday morning, we clicked onto the Dallas Animal Services page to see who is still waiting. The newly designed website doesn’t tell us how many dogs and cats are still in city custody and, thus, facing the needle, but we can see that the place is loaded with adorable faces.
Here’s a million bucks with of dogs and another million worth of kittens. And Goose, the big comfy cat, and Clever, the older cat with mittens, demonstrate
that not every cat in the Dallas shelter is a kitten!
The reminder for Monday is that all shelters and rescue groups need foster help. You can see about helping Dallas Animal Services by clicking on www.dallasanimalservices.org.
SEVERAL NEED HELP
AT LANCASTER SHELTER
The small-shelter advocates 4-Legged Helpers continue to monitor the animals at the Lancaster Animal Shelter on the southern side of Dallas, just across I-20.
This first guy, JB, is a Bulldog/Boxer mix, according to the note from 4-Legged Helpers Laura Macias and Leighann Hayden. The bio says, “JB needs to be neutered and checked over by a vet. Everyone feels this is needed before he can be placed for adoption or rescue since he is exhibiting some behavior consistent with a dog in pain. Please, please. Would you consider donating to help potentially save his life? No amount too small. Fully tax deductible. Note we are also trying to help a dog named Blue be fixed as well. Call or text Laura at 214-949-2726 with any questions. PayPal for 4-Legged Helpers is helpingshelterbabies@gmail.com. Please, won't you help JB?”
And that appeal brings us to yet another Boxer-Bulldog, a girl named Claire who is described as “cuddly, huggable.” She’s about a year old. She’s the dog we mentioned last week — her story is the human could no longer care for her, so she asked a nephew to take the microchipped dog to a shelter, but the “nephew apparently dumped the dog.” [LARRY ASIDE: Guess which nephew is out of the will now….]
Claire is a dog who is acclimated to living with a human, not living with other dogs.
To ask about helping these or any other Lancaster animals, call or text Laura at 214-949-2726 or emailing cat_girl_71@yahoo.com.
CONTEMPLATIONS
NATURE: Bugs and Birds in Texas; Riley & the Ohio Fawn
One of the emails that arrived in my inbox Monday morning was dated June 12 and it came from the Dallas County Health and Human Services’ Lab “confirming [that] mosquito samples have tested positive for West Nile virus” — they were trapped in Zip Code 75149 in Mesquite. See the precautions HERE. I bring this up for two reasons (1) Remind the public about natural dangers and (2) take us back to that tranquil era in America when all we had to worry about was a mean bite from a mosquito and paying our taxes. ….
On this fine Monday morning in Texas, there’s a Mockingbird, the State Bird of Texas, outside the home office window, sitting in a nearby Oak tree. His (I’m assuming “his”) early morning performance has been akin to cranking up some acid rock in a church nursery. I don’t know where that bird gets his sounds. …
While our dogs enjoy looking out a window and barking at a trash truck in front of the house or a squirrel scampering unbothered across the backyard toward a backyard tree, Riley the Lhasa Apso has a different view in Medina, Ohio. We got this report from our Eastern Seaboard Bureau Chief Andy Fisher courtesy of longtime friend, the noted attorney and animal fan Stephen “Steve” Brown. This “nature photo” shows the family dog Riley enjoying a view of one of the fawns that has visited the Brown property this season. [LARRY ASIDE: FYI, fawns are much quieter than Mockingbirds.] And that person cuddling Riley is our Eastern Seaboard Bureau General Manager and Animal Rescue Advocate Annie Fisher, the bureau chief’s missus. The final photo shows a shot earlier this spring of a doe and four fawns visiting the wild kingdom overseen by Steve and wife Carolyn. Here’s how Andy, the major network journalist/writer knows the Ohio legal star: “Steve was my college roommate 58 years ago and has put up with my bad jokes all these years.” So, on a Monday, this is a way to remind us all that there are good things in the world. Fawns, dogs ’n’ cats, babies ’n’ kids, friends. Oh, OK, loud mockingbirds, too. State Bird of Ohio is the Cardinal — which the Mockingbird can mock — pleasantly. Whether it will is another question. But these fawns are quiet!
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