IT BEGINS WITH A DOG NAMED TRISTAN...AND THE NEED IS HOMES AND HUMAN HEARTS....

EDITION OF MONDAY, MAY 23, 2022 [PetPowellPress] You have a viewing assignment for this edition and it is an assignment with pressure. 
Click HERE.   https://www.facebook.com/1282155007/videos/531810338673303/  
And I hope the link works. (If it doesn't, know that I'm working on it. Also go to Tami Kula's Facebook page to see it!)
The bulging-with-at-peril-animals Dallas Animal Services Shelter is pressured right now and the only way out for some animals is a needle. One of them is this guy Tristan, 10 years old and 75 pounds, according to DAS. That needle would seem to be an extraordinarily unfair exit for any animal in a city that named its airport Love and claims to have a big heart. Get the idea? 
In case you haven’t done the classwork and watched the video, here’s the deal with Tristan. (See his DAS SITE.) 
Look at his right front paw. Yeah, it’s not there. 
We got the tip on him from Tami Kula, the animal advocate who monitors the DAS and other shelters. Her note reads, “TRISTAN IS INCREDIBLE. Please don't overlook him. I am a big fan of #theunderdog. Despite his right front paw missing he runs and plays and is ready to head on any adventure.”

Then she adds, “But he is urgent and needs an Adopter or Rescue or Foster ASAP. We cannot say enough amazing things about this guy. Dallas Animal Services — OWNER SURRENDERED.  ... Playgroup tested, plays gentle and social with other dogs. Front right paw is missing, healed so happened a long time ago/at birth - does not seem affected. … Go adopt at the Shelter. Foster at [email protected] or [email protected]."
The DAS website is www.bedallas90.org.
 As you watch Tristan exploring the shelter grounds, imagine how quickly he quits moving when the tech shoves that needle into him and the light goes out in those eyes because shelter management can’t find a human heart in the City of Dallas or the surrounding area. Remember, you don’t have to live in Dallas to adopt in Dallas. Go save some lives and help your own lives be better at the same time. 
At the bedallas90.org site you can see how to adopt and what you’ll need. Here is what “DAS Requires All Adopters to be: Be at least 18-years-old; Present a valid ID; 
Fill out an adoption questionnaire; Speak to an adoption counselor; Provide contact information for the pet’s microchip.” Nobody want’s the animals going to someone who won’t help them live happily ever after.
[LARRY ASIDE: I’ve been writing about animals-at-peril and about happily adopted and rescued animals since the previous century. Every now and then — like friggin’ daily — I encounter the story with scant information about a dog whose spirit touches me. That’s Tristan. But I’m blessed with a heart that never met an animal I didn’t love, and cursed with a bank account that can’t quite finance publishing a book titled “HOW YOU CAN LIVE WITH A DOG AND CAT HAVE A LIFE OF LOVE THAT ENRICHES YOUR SOUL.” Of course, that’s too long a title, but I had to use long expressions. I couldn't use my always-spot-on newsroom expressions that describe people who are willingly ignorant. Now and then I try to be polite.  FYI, I'd adopt that cute kitten if we hadn't already hit the cat limit on earth. That kitten is Moon (A1144902) a 2-month-old who wound up in the Dallas shelter and went into foster care. Ask the shelter about him or any of these animals by emailing [email protected] or call 214-670-6800. FYI: I was there when the first shovels of dirt were turned for this shelter. I was there when it officially opened. I saw it as a place that would remove the Dallas Animal Services reputation as a place where stray dogs and cats and unwanted puppies and kittens went to be killed without hope of adoption. I like to thing the DAS Shelter maintains the mission of saving all of ‘em in Dallas. But, I’m nearly always an idiot in matters of civic direction.]
CONTEMPLATIONS
LOOK AT THE FACES

At 10:52 a.m. Monday, I copied the photos of the first 12 dogs listed as available on the DAS “Adoptable Pets’ link on bedallas90.org. There are many, many, many more. Reminder: The city of Dallas budgets “euthanasia juice” by the barrels for the shelter because the residents of Dallas fail so many animals each year.
 At 10:58 a.m., I copied the first dozen cats on the shelter’s list of adoptables. Some are young, some are not. Just like the dogs, all are “on the list” if the circumstances are right.
Circumstances? If there’s a distemper outbreak, if there’s a parvo outbreak, if there’s too much mange, too wild a personality … If management changes policies. If political theories of management overwhelm decency. … Look, the reality is, municipal and county taxpayer financed- shelters, in spite of the term “shelter,” have time limits — the clock is ticking the moment an animal is delivered via a “stray pickup” or an ownership dumping. Thanks to humans, the death needle never really goes into retirement.
At 11:05 a.m., I wondered how in the world the animal advocacy world can reach the hearts of people who just don’t know the way things are going in their city’s shelter. Or that their city has a shelter. Or that animals other than coyotes run free in North Texas. People who don’t know that their outdoor cats are “food” for coyotes, foxes, hawks and other predators — honestly, how much brainpower does it take to keep your cat happy inside your house? Those “natural predators? Nothing compared to humans. Humans shoot animals for fun. They ignore them sometimes and hope they’ll die. They dump them on busy roads. They leave them on parking lots. Geez, I’m telling you animal advocates things you already know. What we all don’t know is how we can awaken the rest of humanity to the concept of being actively kind to animals every day of the week. Death by euthanasia is meant to be helpful to a suffering animal, it’s not meant to be a population management tool to open up some kennels. 
Good thing those give-em-the-needle advocates weren’t in charge of beds during the pandemic, right?
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