THE WEEKEND APPROACHES: SAVE SOME ANIMALS, HONOR THE FRIENDS YOU SAVED

EDITION OF THURSPM/FRIDAY, JULY 14PM/15/2022 [PetPowellPress] Here we go with another session of wondering what in the world is the matter with people. Wait. This late in the week, let’s think positively about life. The weekend CAN be saved! Animals CAN be saved! Humans without a working heart CAN be re-tooled to give a hoot! And gasoline CAN be priced at under $3 a gallon. Three out of four — that’s all I’m askin’. 
Enough kidding around. Read on about animals you can help in Euless and Fort Worth and, well, wherever! And, by the way, this first item and the one that follows are here because I got a tip from the great Karen Lee, guiding light at barkleyworld.com, the non-profit that helps people and animals. She stays busy. Here's our report and a Contemplation.
TRINITY GAP CLUB RESCUE
HAS A BUNCH TO OFFER…
We’ve been writing about Trinity GAP Club’s rescue efforts since the founding of the non-profit — it began years ago as a project of the Girls’ Awareness Program at Euless’s Trinity High School. In addition to inspiring good deeds among students, the GAP volunteers “support” the Euless Animal Shelter. 
Just this week Trinity GAP Club posted a note supporting the Shelter and the animals. The text reads, “Please help! The Euless Shelter is very small. The city has quadrupled in size since 1977, but the shelter size is the same. We are working tirelessly to keep dogs from being euthanized. We have dogs in boarding, so now boarding is full, too. We need citizens to please step up and open your hearts and homes to help save these babies.”
 And if you have a foster attitude and ability, email steffeniegaprescue@gmail.com. 

At https://trinitygaprescue.org, you can see the many dogs and cats the GAPsters -- I use the informal term -- are working to save. 
 We’re citing two dogs: Squiggy on the left and “his best friend/brother Lenny.” They are a “very bonded pair,” GAP says. Squiggy is around 2 and a little under 14 pounds and Lenny around a year-old and about 20 pounds, their bios read.
Both are said to be “crate-trained, potty-trained and leash-trained. Squiggy is current on preventatives and has been neutered and microchipped.  Squiggy is an easy-going and quiet little guy who ranked his favorite activities as:   head scratches, belly rubs, car adventures, playing in the yard, and sleeping on a comfy pillow/bed.   Grateful for any and all of those, he gladly provides unconditional love, companionship, an adorable smile, and a happy wagging tail!  Although Squiggy is heartworm positive, his treatment will be  covered 100% by the Rescue (no out of pocket medical costs for his foster/adopter).”

Lenny has the same pleasant nature and attitude as his older brother. And, his bio reads, “He is current on preventatives and has been neutered and microchipped. Lenny ranked his favorite activities as:  belly rubs, head scratches, car adventures, playing in the yard, and sleeping under the bed.  Grateful for any and all, he gladly provides unconditional love, companionship, an adorable smile, and a happy wagging tail!  Lenny can be talkative at times and likes to alert his humans to visitors.  He also gives greeting barks to other dogs, birds, and squirrels to let them know he sees them!”
For info, email the Foster Mom at gapfosterfriday@gmail.com.

And when you go to the GAP website, don’t expect to just see dogs. For example, that cat is Angel, “turned in as a stray” in March 2022. The Euless Shelter staff quickly got her into medical care because of her diabetes. She’s in foster care right now — there she gets twice-daily insulin shots and a “proper diet” and gets to be a cat who “is very affectionate and loves being the center of attention.”
Her bio reads, “She is curious and wants to see where you are going and what you are doing.She talks and trills and loves to take naps.” Angel is 5 or 6 years old. GAP is looking for an adoptor with experience in dealing with diabetic kitties.
To ask about becoming Angel’s loving human, send a text to foster mom Denice at 817-262-9346 or email denice-steadman@usa.net. FYI: Angel is sponsored by Euless Shelter Cats Inc. and “her adoption fee has been waived.”
POTENTIAL GOOD NEWS;
GOOD NEWS COMING?
The aforementioned Karen Lee of barkleyworld.com tipped us to this effort to save a Hunter from the needle at Fort Worth Animal Care & Control. Someone beat us to saving him before we could write about him. But his story deserves a notation in the history of rotten ways to treat a dog in Texas.

The biographic note dated July 13 came from animal advocate Jennifer Sellers and it read, “Chocolate lab owner surrender with his huge chain still attached to his neck. His eyes say it all. Infested with fleas and ticks, hair loss all over his body, intake staff notes ‘in very poor condition’. He has only been at the shelter 1 day and is already code red and at highest risk of being euthanized at the Fort Worth Animal Care and Control.”
The dog is a year-and-a-half old, weighs 67 pounds, hadn’t been neutered but was heartworm negative. The note also reads, “He was an owner-surrender 7/11 for ‘health of animal’. He’s noted as having upper respiratory infection upon intake. He’s now code red for 'sick and aggression toward new people'.”

Then, on Thursday morning, Jennifer sent us this note: “By miracle Hunter and the pitiful mangy dog with him were both tagged!  …  There are many others that are still going down today without rescue. …. There's a black Lab named Rambo.”

By Thursday afternoon I could not find Black Lab Rambo on the Fort Worth site — there was a black Chihuahua named Rambo. I hope Lab Rambo found a home before deadline.

I did, however, find this dog, labeled “Mom of 7.” That sideways photo is what I found online. I straightened up the presentation, Dear Readers, so we could all see what rotten shape this girl is in.
According to her posting on the Fort Worth site, Mom of 7 is in Kennel 2 — came in on July 11. Not sure if she arrived with 7 puppies or if the sorrrybleep jerkbleep who dumped her kept the puppies to sell. Pardon my entirely accurate and not nearly strong enough French.
Mom simply needs a human heart to get her out of the city kennels. She’s not yet on “Code Red.” Not as of Thursday evening, anyway.
Fort Worth Animal Care & Control posts photos of the animals that are on the clock and it’s clicking down quickly. That is the Code Red link HERE. 
The explanation that came with an appeal for Hunter reads “Code Red Dogs: The shelter will hold the dog until 6 pm with a committed offer sent by noon. If the animal is code red and not picked up by 6 pm, they will euthanize. All emails must be sent before 12 pm. Otherwise the dog can and will be euthanized shortly after noon. Do not email unless you are committed to saving the dog’s life.”

Here are the Shelter rules about asking about dogs, cats, etc.
“ DO NOT CALL THE SHELTER! It goes to the city call center; not the shelter. All communication with the shelter is through email.

“Adoptions must be done in person from 12-6pm when the shelter is open to the public.
“To save this dog: You must EMAIL! Please include dog’s ID number. All adoption, foster, rescue tags must be sent via EMAIL: fwacctag@fortworthtexas.gov."
See the shelter’s website HERE.

CONTEMPLATIONS
A PERSONAL AFTERNOON THOUGHT
I don’t have a Contemplation with a punchline today. I’ve been writing about dogs and cats and other animals and the people who love them and the people who don’t for decades. For some reason — maybe it was the faces of the animals on the clock in Euless and Fort Worth and Dallas and beyond that I’ve encountered. Oh, heck, maybe it was the recent heat or the rain that WASN’T falling at our house Thursday. Whatever it was, something sent me into such a mood that it was affecting my ability to concentrate, to string words together in readable, understandable sentences. I’ll do better in the next edition. I swear on a stack of whatever you’ve got that is low-calorie and doesn’t need butter or syrup. Once this is posted, I’m going to go sit in the backyard with the dogs and a notepad and either launch another attempt at The Lesser American Novel Part II or III or draw cartoons of rescued animals from my past.
I have particularly missed my pal Inky today. He may have been the greatest Cocker Spaniel ever born n the universe — I expect the Webb SpaceTelescope to take a photo of a far off historical marker that reads “THE MILKY WAY IS THE GALAXY THAT GAVE THE UNIVERSE THE ADVENTUROUS AND LOYAL COCKER LAUREATE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, INKY.” He was rescued from Dallas' Kiest Park by me, my Shepherd mix Baby Jane Doe and my Great Dane/Lab mix Hambone Jack, The Canine King of the Blues.  Inky was mangy with hair on only one ear -- nowhere else. He was blind in one eye -- a puppy with a tail cropped too short for Westminster. Inky was the kind of exspensivly sick that, if he hadn’t been rescued by a SAP newspaper columnist, he’d have been executed in a city shelter and forgotten. As it turned out, he lived the rest of his life making me smile. Anybody reading this should be blessed with such a friend. I drew photos of him participating in the Winter Olympics earlier in the century. Yeah, I liked to pretend that his gold medals for ski jumping and winter fishing are in the box with his ashes. Writing about Inky makes me feel better about the strength of animal rescue and advocacy. And that’s Inky giving us his impression of a hard-working, hungry member of the Texas Humane Legislation Network rushing into the governor’s office for a fully-catered ceremony celebrating the signing of a bill that makes sure people who treat animals poorly get to spend plenty of time being able to look up and see only a ceiling built at state expense.
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