AS THE TEXAS RANGERS HEAD TO THE WORLD SERIES, WE HAVE ANIMALS WAITING TO HEAD TO NEW HOMES!

EDITION OF TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY, OCT. 24-25, 2023 [PetPowellPress] How ‘bout the American League Champion Texas Rangers! Hang on, Dear Readers. Wait a minute. … OK. Thanks. I needed a brief nap. I can’t just flop over and snooze.
Yes, another reason to envy dogs and cats. I never take naps. Never. Now I’m disoriented. Give me a minute to find my alphabet — a cat knocked it off my desk “for the sake of literature,” he said. I’ll be right back….Whew. Thanks. Read on.
MEANWHILE IN EVERMAN
FULL SHELTER HAS DERIX
We got the tip on this tale from Heather Harrison, our longtime tipster who focuses on the City of Everman Animal Shelter on the southern side of Fort Worth.
Heather reports, “Everman Shelter is beyond capacity!  They are pleading for help to save some lives!!”
 And she provided the photo and info about this guy Derix.
He is a “year old Beagle/Dachshund mix,” his bio reads, adding, “He is a smaller guy that loves everyone he meets.  Very social.  Always offers up his tummy for a quick rub.  Dog social. Vaccinated.”
 To help Derix — or any Everman animal — find a home, call the shelter at 817-561-5495. Here’s the PETFINDER LINK for Everman’s home-needing animals.
SO, THERE ARE THESE
TWO DOGS WAITING…
Yeah, hawk-eye, you’ve seen these two dogs before. They’ve previously inspired me to write in order to help the 4-Legged Helpers find homes for them. And now, they’ve inpired me to write about them so I can ask this question, i.e., the consistent question in the world of dogs and cats: Why won’t anybody in a region with a zillion people adopt these dogs?
I think I can answer the question this way: Rescue groups are too full these days and good-hearted people prone to adopting animals and loving them have already hit the limit.
So, we keep plugging along — in this case, the 4-Legged Helpers are doing all the hard plugging on behalf of these two. They’re the contact people; they promote the animals; they keep pressing on behalf of the cause. And, yet, here we are again, citing Melia and beautiful Bella once again. 

Melia? SHE HAS $800 IN DONATIONS THAT’LL GO TO THE 501c3 that takes her. She’s a 2-year-old, 56-pound Lab/Boxer mix who is in the care of the Wilmer Animal Shelter which, the Helpers report, “floods when it rains.” 
So, to offer to help Melia and/or Bella, call the Helpers at 214-949-2726 or email [email protected].
Bella has $500 in donations to the non-profit that takes her in. She’s the beautiful dog found lashed to the front of a South Dallas vet clinic. The kind thought is expressed in her appeal letter: “Apparently someone that could no longer care for her was desperate to try to save her and tied her there in hope that they could help.” She’s beautiful and a “sweet little couch potato,” the Helpers say.
So, if you can’t take these dogs and give them a wonderful life, maybe you know someone who can. Let the phone-calling, the txting, the emailing and the lecturing begin. I don’t mean lecture, of course, just gentle persuasion. And, no knuckleheads need apply.
THREE DOGS SNUGGLE
IN FORT WORTH SHELTER
This item we cribbed off a Facebook post by Fort Worth Animal Care & Control volunteer Penelope Jones. You see the three dogs in that photo. Yes, they are snuggling. Three dogs in one shelter bed.
The text with the photos says the trio is at the Chuck Silcox Animal Care & Control Center — that’s on the southeastern side of Fort Worth. 

The text on Penelope’s post reads, “Shared with Public. Closing time....I saw them. All huddled together, for comfort. They've been at the shelter since 10/3. No one sees them. I see them, I will see them in my sleep!
Fritzee, Candy Corn and Pinky. You are beautiful! Kennel cards are in pictures and they are all 3 on Doxy!
“I know one has skin issues. I'm sorry I couldn't tell you how beautiful you are. They are available for adoption, rescue or foster. I'll check on them again though because they need someone to love them, pay attention to them and I care.
“Go meet them! Please? Do not call the shelter. ADOPTIONS are DAILY 12-6.
“RESCUE EMAIL: [email protected]
“FOSTER email: [email protected]
"[These pups are] located at Fort Worth Animal Care and Control/Chuck Silcox Adoption Center, 4900 Martin Street, Fort Worth 76119
"If you're not a current foster, please apply on line at tinyurl.com/fosterfwacc." 

You can find the shelter’s bios and info about these three 4-month-old Pittie babes by scrolling to their photos at https://www.facebook.com/penelope.jones.311
And you can see Fort Worth’s “Code Red” animals by clicking on this CODE RED SITE. 
CONTEMPLATIONS
NOTHING FOR THE FILE CABINET
Does anyone still have file cabinets — I have cardboard boxes and a computer. And my former sock drawer now has a bunch of paperwork stored in it. Lately I’ve been experimenting with a return to something from my teenage years. Not wearing socks. I’ve got some tasseled Bass
Did your see or hear or even read — lots of media these days — the story about the 2023 State Fair’s attendance? The news release from Karissa Condoianis (Senior Vice President, Public Relations) reported that this year’s State Fair of Texas “welcomed more than 2.3 million people through the gates during its 24-day run.”

The release included this important passage for people who love the Fair. “Each year the State Fair of Texas is centered around community,” said State Fair of Texas President, Mitchell Glieber. “Despite the challenges we faced this Fair, our team has been resilient and remained steadfast in bringing the community together to celebrate at the Most Texan Place on Earth. After 137 years, there is nothing more fulfilling than seeing folks from all walks of life embrace and uplift the time-honored tradition that is the State Fair of Texas.”
 Pretty darned eloquent and spot-on, don’t you think?
The first time I went to the State Fair of Texas I was a grown-up kid in the early ‘70s — my toddler twins Bret and Bart were entered in the livestock competition and actually won “Most Alike Twins” in their age group. I’m just kidding about that being livestock competition. The boys were cuter than any critter on the fairgrounds — except maybe the piglets in the petting zoo. (They’ll love that line!)
Yeah, I love the State Fair of Texas and any time I get the chance I’ll watch Singin’ Cowboy Gene Autry’s movie The Big Show — filmed at the “new fairgrounds” celebrating the Texas Centennial way back yonder, i.e., 1936.  Ol’ Gene’s star may have brightened in Hollywood, but he was a genuine Texan — ask the folks in Tioga. Of course, he apparently did grow up in Oklahoma — and there’s a town there named Gene Autry, Okla., right up I-35, well-north of the casinos where Texans drive up, play a while and leave their money.

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