EDITION OF TUESDAY/WEDNESDAY MAY 28-29, 2024 [PetPowellPress] As you are reading this there is an ugly situation near Houston and at the heart of it is this dog. As this is being written, there has been no actual solutions to this dog’s challenges. Read on. We have someone you can e-mail and volunteer to help get this dog to safety before nature ends the crisis. This will take some immediate action.
Our Houston tipster for years, Alexandra Kelsey, is back online after the big storm there. And, as the next big storm was hitting the usually calm North Texas area Tuesday morning, she sent me a report about a … well, just read on…. The subject line read, "Blonde Lab: Storm Refugee? Needs care urgently. This handsome dog is in Cleveland, Texas, (not far from Houston).”
We got in touch with Melissa Canales Benitez who posted the first appeal for help and has gotten scores of responses, but nobody who’s able to “come save this dog.”
Our tipster Alexandra Kelsey reported, “RESCUE AND FOSTER NEEDED…” for this dog in Cleveland, north of Houston in the greater metro area. That’s Liberty County.
The story, from a Monday posting, is, “Labrador dog was abandoned by ‘owners’ — he was left behind in an empty lot, tied up in Cleveland TX. The dog was fainting, and the neighbors gave him water & food, but he doesn’t want to eat since yesterday. He needs help ASAP.”
Melissa, who posted the original appeal, told us Tuesday, “I have emailed multiple rescues since yesterday and this morning and no response. Only one rescue responded to me and said they would need a commitment foster in order to take him.”
Dallas/Fort Worth and surrounding area have their own problems right now, but surely someone knows someone somewhere who can step up and save this dog from being “abandoned to death.”
To offer help by rescuing and/or fostering, email Melissa at [email protected]. Here’s Melissa’s post about the dog on FACEBOOK.
[LARRY ASIDE: It’s probable, don’t you think, that this abandoning of a dog in this manner in Texas is against the state’s animal cruelty laws? Cleveland is in Liberty County — I mention that in case anyone knows the District Attorney there or, perhaps, a Liberty County deputy who’d recognize that dog as “evidence” in a cruelty case and go get the “evidence” and save its life for a courtroom appearance as a primary witness. Though dogs are so forgiving of humans. I don’t know, ladies and gents…Sometimes human behavior is beyond my understanding and it really ticks me off and makes me sad.]
MEANWHILE IN MESQUITE,
DOGS & CATS ARE SHELTERED…
At readlarrypowell.com we admire people who dedicate their hearts to helping animals that are in some kind of a fix.
Through the years we’ve encountered many of them. What they have in common is a goal fueled by their hearts. Among those folks are the volunteer dog-biography writers at Mesquite Animal Services. They meet the dogs they write about. Here are two current dogs — remember, these dogs can be adopted for $20, per Mesquite's May special..
“Look at Summer’s quirky ears,” began veteran writer Judi Brown’s bio of this darlin Doberman Pinscher mix. Then she added, “They sort of define her personality as she is delightful and at the same time a little goofy.” The year-old, 49-pound pup came in as a stray on May 20. “She has a sore/scab on the right side of her nose. It is being treated and appears to be healing,” Judi writes, adding, “It doesn’t seem to bother her.
“She was so excited to get outside that she romped and frolicked joyfully. It was fun to watch. Summer has a lot of play in her. She loves to fetch and retrieve balls. She even picked one up at one time and tried to entice me to play with her. She sits for treats and seems to be very motivated by treats. She could use a little training on taking them more gently. She did spend some time looking out the gate. I suspected she was looking for her owners. When I sat down she tried to get up on my lap. She wagged her tail meeting smaller dogs, but a bigger dog barked at her, and she became agitated. We suggest if you have another dog to ask the shelter to do a dog test.” Summer “comes when you call her and loves to have her ears scratched. … She could use a large yard to romp in but would like to spend most of her time inside with her new loving family.”
Summer is #55960808 — cite that ID when you email the shelter at [email protected] or call 972-216-6283.
Same system for this girl Eva, #55965684.
Judi writes, “In her short life, it looks like Eva has probably been overbred. She would now like to go to a home that would cherish HER because of her sterling personality. Eva is a 2-year-old black and white terrier Pit mix that arrived at the Mesquite Animal Shelter on 5/21. She weighs 56 pounds. I had her out on a hot day and she spent most the time by the door. She wants to be mostly an inside dog. She will need a tall secure fence as she did make an attempt to escape. She does sit for treats and takes them gently.
“Eva is well mannered. She occasionally jumps on you but gets down when asked to do so. She wants human interaction and stays close. She is sweet, friendly, and very observant. She seems to be happy as her tail wagged a lot. She came to me when I called her. She walked OK on a leash. … She wagged her tail meeting smaller dogs but barked at one larger dog. We always suggest if you have another dog to ask the shelter for a dog test. This is one sweet girl and deserves a break. I’m
hoping this first picture will tug at your heart and you will come in and meet her. Eva would do well with children. As loving as she is, I think she would be very protective of them. And like I said, she does not like the hot weather and needs to be a mostly inside dog.”
See more Mesquite animals at this shelter address.
That cat, for example, has no name — but she is #55996049, a domestic Shorthair Mix who is just over a year old.
She’s small and a pretty white and orange girl.
She came into the shelter on May 24. And she’s available for adoption.
sk to see her in — where else? — The Cat Room.
CONTEMPLATIONS
A STORMY MORNING ON TRASH DAY
You know how it goes in big cities — you have a windy morning and then you wonder, “If I put my trash bin out on the curb before the storm blows over, will I have to walk the neighborhood looking for the escaped rolling trash container? Or will it blow over and spread the recycleables (that a word?) among the manicured yards? I’ll put off that roll-it-out decision for later -- maybe midnight or 2 a.m. Let’s get to this: I hope everyone who reads this has enough live electricity to click and read whatever they like to read on stormy days.
As I type this, the wind in our neighborhood is knocking limbs around — most are hanging onto their trees. Mercifully. But the flimsy orange blossoms on my floralspouse Martha’s front-yard cannas are being whipped around like a flock of cats is chasing a herd of zig-zagging mice through the flower bed. Enough with the weather challenges in our yard. …
One of the great things about the computer age is that as type begins to grow so small that you can’t see it clearly, you can hit a button or two and BLOW IT UP TO A READABLE LEVEL. Ah, a rainy day in Texas always inspires free-thinking exercises, i.e., this question: “If I was a dog and my dog was a human, would my human like me?” …
Junior Office Cat Stevie Ray Treeboy is asleep on a stack of office boxes I intend to unpack within the decade. I’m beginning to wonder what is in them. Could be my collection of losing Lotto Texas tickets.Yeah, that would take two boxes.
—- Offer Lotto advice or tell me where to seek counseling for my myriad other problems with coping in the 21st Century by clicking on ‘comment’ below or by emailing [email protected] and put “YOU’LL NEED TO WIN LOTTO TEXAS TO PAY FOR THE HELP YOU NEED” in the subject line.—-
