A DOG FROM A 'CAMPING AREA?; SMALL SHELTERS HAVE ADORABLES READY; THE OFFICE CATS' TALES

EDITION OF WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY JUNE 26-27, 2024 [PetPowellPress] As the midweek arrives and begins to wane, we present some notes about animals and even about people. Read on. Send no money to this site — we’d just blow it on snacks.
SOME SMALL-SHELTER ANIMALS
LINGERING IN THE APPEALS
I can’t remember how long I’ve been seeing appeals for these particular dogs. Weeks. Maybe months. They’re in small shelters with the lingering curse of small-town shelters: Rare walk-through human traffic seeking an adoptable animal.
But these animals have advocates — the folks with the 4-Legged Helpers bunch. These animal advocates try to get more people into the shelters and more animals out of them. It’s a mission of love. D
Should you want to help these particular animals or get involved with the organization, call 214-949-2726 or 97e2-897-4926 or email [email protected]..
Today we’re citing 3 thanks to the hard-working advocates — and if you’re a 501c3 rescue, these folks can help arrange transportation for the dogs, too.
That first dog is in the Wilmer Shelter. He’s Shadow, a Lab described as a “great young dog” who may be less than a year old. Purebred, the description says. He’s underweight at 50 pounds — he was “out and about on his own” when he was found and brought to Wilmer.
Shawn and Suzie are possible siblings, a couple of Black Mouth Cur mixes found east of Ferris.
The bio reads, “They were found out and about in a very rural area of the county all by themselves. Known dumping area for every kind of dog you can imagine.  And these are such great dogs it defies reasoning if that is indeed how they got there.   Both are young dogs and incredibly sweet.  Very loving.  Available individually or together.”
[LARRY ASIDE: There are more availables and there will be more dogs in the small shelters. Email [email protected] and ask to be put on the mailing list. You may know someone looking for a new dog to add to the family — there are, after all, any number of reasons to adopt dogs and cats, the first being “love.”]
AN ODD NOTE SURFACES AMID
THE MANY ANIMALS IN NEED…
I can’t really explain how readlarrypowell.com got this note about Cowboy Franky — might have been on animal advocate Jeremy Boss’ Facebook page HERE.
It'll eventually become clear to me, but never mind all that. We have a dog to help. What caught my attention was, appropriately, the headline: “COWBOY FRANKY GETS NO EMAILS!” And the second line which read, “Cowboy Franky was found near a homeless encampment in Dallas.”
And the third line: “Sadly, someone spray painted him with bright fuchsia paint! The spray paint is finally wearing off!”
The note also read that "Word on the street is that it's a sign used in dog fighting but this sweet boy loves to cuddle!”
He’s a year old and weighs 46 pounds and, the note read, “This boy has a great temperament and has never met a stranger and is great with other dogs!”
Jeremy, as you may recall, is the President of the Dowdy Ferry Animal Commission. And the combo of advocacy and the Cowboy Franky photo is what lead us to Elise Bissell, president of the Dallas Street Dog Advocates. — that’s  dsda.org.
And dsda.org is where you can apply to meet and maybe adopt Franky. Click on www.dsda.org/adopt and you can see the official bio of Cowboy Franky — he’s described as a “Male Plott Hound Boxer” who is “an adorable, sweet brindle boy.”
CONTEMPLATIONS
ASSORTED NOTES FROM NOWHERE
From nowhere? Well, except for this note. It’s from right here at my desk. My Senior Office Cat William Powell texted me, “Crop the nose photo and make another pitch for the fun-loving nature of a veteran office cat. We always see nose-to-nose on editing, right?” William feels the same way I do about usage of the needless punctuation known as "The Oxford Comma." We ain't British. So, there you have it. That’s why you see that photo again. William also suggested that I post a second photo promoting the intellectual nature of office cats. So, there it is. Senior Office Cat William explaining the concept of “window on the world” to Junior Office Cat Stevie Ray.
Both boys showed up at our old house in a notoriously fertile 75224 Zip Code in Dallas. It's an area that periodically shows up in the list of "must preach the gospel of spay and neuter" notices.  [Back to the painting: William, close to six or seven months old at the time, stopped by to watch as I stood on a ladder and, without hurting myself, painted the wood trim on the house. When he saw my skills, he decided to stay. I believe he said, “He’s OK on a ladder, but he’s bound to roll off that roof someday. I don’t want to miss that.”]
Junior Office Cat Stevie Ray Treeboy? Got him as a nearly handful of kitten — he was clinging to a flimsy mimosa limb about 6 feet off the ground and I just reached over, plucked him off the limb and we’ve been buddies ever since. He was raised in the guest-room by Senior Office Cat William Powell. William asked me to note that he will train your kitten in the art of office diplomacy and skills for a substantial fee.
— YOU’VE ALL GOT TALES OF CATS AND DOGS, SEND ‘EM TO [email protected] (just the stories, not the animals — WE’RE ALL FULL UP HERE!). —-