AS THE WEEK ENDS, WE CITE ANIMALS (PUPPIES & KITTENS!), A TICK TOOL, HERDS & BETH

EDITION OF FRIDAY, JULY 9, 2021 [PetPowellPress] Sometimes I open an email and see the face of a dog and think, “Haven’t I written about this dog before?” I suspect, all you Dear Rescuers and Advocates, that I am not the first person to experience “Deja Vu Dog” or “Deja Mew Cat” Syndrome.
THE BIG SHELTER IN BIG D
HAS FREE DOGS AND CATS
The occasion is the Bissell Pet Foundation’s #EmptyTheShelters event and you’ll see on the list of dogs and cats at Dallas Animal Services, a lot of big ol’ dawgs and little ol’ cats that look familiar and but aren’t really the same catface or dogface in your memory. These animals are building entirely new memories for themselves and the humans who adopt them. 
For example, that dog — that Earhound — is Harper, a year-old German Sheperd-type girl who weighs 54 waiting-to-be-happy pounds. The Bissell event runs through Sunday. And DAS’s post says, “All pets will be FREE to adopt either online or in-person during our onsite adoption hours." Go to the BeDallas90.org site  to get details and click HERE to see available animals, including this little guy Plutonium, one of many young and older kittens and cats waiting for a new home.
TWO GARLAND CATS
NEED ONE NEW HOME
Nola and Sushi are their names, finding one home together is their aim.
We got the note via Jennifer Sellers, the veteran rescuer/advocate who spotted them on a neighborhood page in Garland.
The story is they need to be “rehomed together.” Brown cat Nola is a girl; Suchi is the orange boy. Described as “friendly, loving cats,” both also are “fixed and vaccinated.” These indoor-only cats are a mere 3 years old.
The contact point for asking about adopting them is “ZC” at 469-803-7533.

Clearly they'll need one good bed with a comfy comforter and one window with viewing platform. Then, with a loving human, they can call the place "home."
THE MOM IS BRYNNA
AND THE PUPPIES….
While I may have seen these “types of dogs” before, this is the first time I’ve published these puppy faces. 
Aren’t they something! 
These are the 4-week-old puppies of Brynna — you see Mom in the last photo — very obviously the mom.
 These puppies are described as “bulldog mix with some Shepherd sprinkled in.”
That’s what we learned from the note we got from 4-Legged Helpers, the non-profit that monitors small, low-human traffic shelters in hopes of getting the right sets of eyes on dogs and cats that need homes or rescue groups or some other kind of good and decent break! 
Why are Brynna and the babies in the Lancaster shelter? 
The answer from 4-Legged Helpers: “Someone insisted on bringing them into the shelter. Being kept safe away from the general population but need out NOW. Note that all animals at this small shelter are vaccinated on intake. Mommy Brynna is sweet as sweet can be. Extremely lovable. Adores everyone.”
Mom needs a home, too.
To offer to help this family find happy homes, call or text 4-Legged Helpers at 214-949-2726 or email [email protected] or “Facebook msg” Laura Macias.”
 And remember this: Like so many shelters around here, Lancaster is “full.” 

MEANWHILE IN MESQUITE,
WAITING FOR THE RIGHT HEART
Cane, that’s his name. Our tipster, the volunteer dog biographer Debra Chisholm, reports that he’s a mixed-breed who was surrendered to the shelter on May 18 — that was in springtime! Why was he in the shelter? “Landlord would not allow the owners to keep Cane.” He’s 10 months old, weighs 58 pounds and has “so much pent-up energy. Combine that with kennel confinement and he’s ready to zoom. Keeps him from making an initial good impression, his bio says. Then, he also goofed up his leg and needs some healing time for that. He’s #47783929. Use that ID when you call the shelter at 972-216-6283 or email rescues@cityof- mesquite.com.
That brings us to Faith (#47831797), a Pittie mix who came in on May 24 as a stray. Debra’s Faith bio reads, “We were disappointed when an adopter recently completed the paperwork but then never showed up to claim his girl on 7/3.  Faith weighs 59 pounds and is about 2 years of age.  She walks well on a leash and when led through the bay she did not react to the other dogs, even those who were barking at her.  She has a sweet disposition and is a spunky girl with an exuberant spirit.  She is a tail-wagging, happy-go-lucky girl with an outgoing and confident personality.  She always seems to look as though she has a big grin on her face.”
 Remember, use her ID when you call the shelter at 972-216-6283 or email at [email protected].
And you can see more dogs and some cats, too, by clicking HERE.
Among those cats and kittens is this guy Archie (#47687541), a just-over 3-year-old Domestic Shorthair mix who is listed as “Large” and “Orange.” He came into the shelter back on May 5 —he might have gotten larger since then, but maybe not oranger.
And there’s this kitten, Beth (#47907714) who came in on June 14 — she’s pushing 3-months old. [LARRY ASIDE: I ran her photo because (a) I want someone to give her a really great home and (b) it gives me an opportunity to link to KISS’s song Beth HERE and (c) there’s another Beth version in Contemplations. I guess I’m suggesting this: Adopt Beth and keep her name so, when she mews because she’s kitten-hungry, you can sing, “Beth, I hear you mewin’….”

CONTEMPLATIONS
TICK KEYS, HERDS & COMEDY
Until I opened my email Thursday, I thought “tick” was more pleasantly the first half of “tock.” Or maybe an irritating bug. But, no, here was the subject line: “Stock up on Tick Keys for a tick-free summer!” I grew up in the Land of Ticks, the fields, pastures and riverside grassy banks of Northeast Texas. A Tick Key -- I have no idea how to start a Tick. I’ve seen ticks at work. But I’ve never before heard of a “Tick Key.” A little research showed credit for the invention goes to a Connecticut man in the previous decade, but, then looking a little farther into the online resources, it was described as a “Nordic invention.” So, who really knows? All I can say is the message came from The Old Farmers Almanac’s marketing department. If only “spay-and-neuter” was as marketable as a “Tick Key.” …
I SEE IN THE NEWS that Dallas has reached “Herd Immunity” as far as that darned pandemic thing is concerned. Don’t you think it would be more appropriate for Cowtown to declare “Herd Immunity”?
BACK TO BETH, the KISS hit: We cite the entertaining and laugh-out-loud-funny (you wouldn’t show it in church or to the kids) movie Role Models from 2008. Got some raunch, got some words… It’s also got a great comic cast: Paul Rudd, Seann William Scott, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Mintz-Plasse (McLovin in Superbad), the GREAT Jane Lynch, comic doctor Ken Jeong…..and includes, in the context of the story, a really funny version of Beth sung by the entertaining Mr. Rudd.  Yes, Dear Readers, your reporter is still, now and then, in guffawing touch with his inner adolescent. And for that I apologize to all my Sunday School teachers through the years.
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