HELP SOME EARTH DOGS AND CATS; CONSIDER THE MARKET FOR MARTIAN KITTENS

EDITION OF WED-THURS-FRI AUG. 21-22-23, 2024 [PetPowellPress] This dateline is extended because I’m in the mood to mush on ahead. Wait. Is “mush ahead” really a term for a Texan to use in August?
I’ll get Senior Office Cat William Powell to assign that “Alaskan Usage Project” to Junior Office Cat Stevie Ray Treeboy.
NOT IN EARTH-ORBIT,
BUT STILL STELLAR DOGS!
[LARRY ASIDE: We’re going to dedicate the rescue and adoption efforts for these three dogs not just to the hard workers/volunteer writers at
Mesquite Animal Shelter, but also to the two astronauts — Suni and Butch. You may know them more formally as Sunita “Suni” Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, two astronauts who left Earth on June 5 for an 8-day stay on the International Space Station but things are fouled up with the return and they may not get back to earth until next year. We don’t know if they’ve already voted absentee. That's a photo of their ship via NASA.]
We focused on these three dogs because of their names: Venus, Saturn and Pluto. Saturn and Venus are sisters of Pluto. Read on.
We begin with Venus (#56557817) because, after all, Venus is closest of the three to Earth.
Mesquite volunteer dog-biographer Judi Brown began her Venus bio with, "Has your life been boring lately? Are you
needing something to give it a spark? Venus is your answer. She will keep you on your toes and entertained and at the same time give you lots of love. She is 6-month-old brindle hound dog that weighs 12 pounds and came into the Mesquite Animal Shelter on 8/13 with her brother Pluto and her sister Saturn. She is too thin and could use some groceries. But that hasn’t stopped her from enjoying life to the fullest. She is vivacious, happy, playful, and affectionate. … She wants to spend most of her time cuddling with her new loving family. Children would be a bonus!”
Cite Venus’ ID 56557817 when you contact the shelter at 972-216-6283 or email [email protected].
Same system for sister Saturn (ID 56557817.)
Of Saturn, Judi writes, “How can you resist those eyes and those floppy ears? This girl is so sweet and endearing! Saturn is a six month old, 19 pound dark brindle hound dog that arrived … on 8/13 as a stray. She came in with her sibling sister Venus and her brother Pluto. Saturn is too thin. Her ribs are showing. She could use some kibbles. In spite of being too thin, she is not lacking in energy. She is very inquisitive, indicating she’s probably very smart. She’s also a bundle of joy.  She would love you to share your home with her. She would love to cuddle with you on the couch or in her own special bed at your feet.”
Pluto is #56557827. Judi writes, “Pluto is a happy puppy that thinks the world is his oyster. Hopefully with a loving home it will be. Pluto is 6-month-old brindle hound dog that weighs 14 pounds. He arrived at the Mesquite Animal Shelter on
8/13 as a stray along with his sisters, Venus and Saturn. They are all under-nourished and could use some groceries. However, that did not deter Pluto from investigating everything in the room in which I did his eval. He’s also a climber, but then again, remember he’s just a puppy. He would need extra stimulation in the form of playtime, toys, and exercise. He should do really well with children. He wants to be an inside dog, mostly where he can cuddle with his new family.”
Remember to save these dogs by adopting or rescuing, cite their ID numbers when you call the shelter at : 972-216-6283 or email [email protected].
You can click on this MESQUITE SHELTER LINK and see many more adoptable dogs and cats and kittens. From Earth, of course, though they may be Heavenly creatures!
FROM ‘NEAR EAST TEXAS’:
LITTLE PISTOL NEEDS A HOME
We got the tip on this darling dog from our pal Sydney Busch, the longtime guiding light of Friends of the Animals at Cedar Creek Lake, the organizing and operating entity of the world’s most successful spay/neuter clinic at Gun Barrel City, Texas.
As you may know, the Friends Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic is busy on Tuesdays with its mission of helping people get their dogs and cats “fixed.” And on some weekends the friends host a “shot clinic” that helps keep the animals healthy and vaccinated against evil germs and  communicable diseases.
Sometimes the Friends of the Animals step up to help in other situations. This girl Pistol is one of the little pups who may benefit from someone asking the Friends for help.
Sydney’s note reads that Pistol is “well house-trained..Loves to cuddle. Gets along well with others...Loves to go for rides on the golf cart and vehicles.”
Why does she need a home? Her surviving “Dad” called the Friends earlier this week “looking for help in placing her. This is his wife’s dog and his wife died a month ago.” In the midst of this tragedy, the husband is working to find a good and safe place for Pistol. The widower works for UPS and, Sydney’s note reads, “is gone for days at a time and cannot care for Pistol.”
To ask about giving Pistol a good, safe and adoring home, call 903-340-6890.
The Friends of Animals can be contacted on their website
www.friendsoftheanimals.org or on their Facebook Page .
NEIGHBORHOOD PHENOM:
THE SUDDEN KITTEN!
For years at readlarrypowell.com we’ve monitored assorted neighborhood bulletin boards and there are some consistent situations. Dogs always get out of yards; cats always have kittens that wind up roaming.
[HINT TO SOME NEIGHBOR- HOODS: In North Texas, with its “protect nature neighborhoods of trees and flowing water,” we live in a land of predators. If your cat goes missing after you let it out and it doesn’t show up to eat breakfast, it may have fallen victim to coyotes, owls, hawks, stray dogs, bigger cats (bobcats, for example), foxes, humans without hearts, etc. You MUST PROTECT YOUR ANIMALS FROM NATURE! No housecat knows to look up for a circling hawk!]
Now, here’s a case of a good soul — initials ER — in the Fort Worth Ryanwood neighborhood posting these photos and a note. And we’re applauding this human’s effort because it shows some heart. Here’s what the note says:
“We found this kitty on the street. Almost hit her with my car. Kept her but now I have to give her away because my dog is allergic to her. She keeps getting into his things and then he becomes really itchy to the point of him scratching his skin off. Pics of her and the result of her playing with my dog’s ear. I heard if she is taken to shelter they put her down. Can someone advise?”
[LARRY ASIDE: This is a case of Oscar Wilde’s famous declaration, “No good deed goes unpunished.” Helping this cat and treating that dog’s allergic ears may cost money.]
I don’t know how to link you to connect this rescuer, dear readers, but email [email protected] if you want to ask about helping out by adopting the cat. Or to give tips on how to find it a safe home.
CONTEMPLATIONS
BACK TO OUTER SPACE…WITH EARTHLING IDEAS
We renew our spaceflight dialogue with a return to the topic of the elongated mission of Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Unlike your reporter here, the Astronauts Suni and Butch — can you believe those names? How Hollywood is this getting to be!!! — appear to have conquered all hints of claustrophobia. Yep, that’s why I had to turn down that moon mission back July 1969— capsule was just too small! I know I’m not the only non-orbiting claustrophobic insomniac on Planet Earth. I might have made-up that “turn down the moon mission” part. I don’t fly. It’ll take more than a rocket engine to get my earthbuttocks off the ground.
Now, let’s look to the future of Mankind In Space.
No actual Martian Cats — that we know of — are currently available at local shelters. But it’s just a matter of time. [AND FRANKLY READLARRYPOWELL.COM is not exactly 100 percent certain that either the top cat Stevie Ray or the bottom cat Hastings (on a back-up office desk Wednesday morning) are actually from Earth -- both sort of showed up at unexpected moments in odd ways and already had their paperwork completed.]
Anybody who’s been involved in rescue for more than a half-hour knows how humans behave.
One day in the future you’ll roll up to a grocery store and on the parking lot, near the entrance, there’ll be a Mars Rover with a sign on the windshield that reads “Martian Puppies $25 each, $30 a pair.” Or you’ll see a sign reading “FREE MARTIAN KITTENS.”
You know it, I know it and the American people know it — somewhere in the United States there’s already a “breeder” plotting a way to take fertile male and female cats to Mars to get ‘em to “breed in that red sand so I can fly ‘em back to Earth and make a bundle selling Martian Kittens."
LARRY NOTE: I swear, just thinking about that marketing plan makes me believe just a little bit more that there are People Of Earth who have Martian DNA from visits to our planet before the invention of radar could have spotted a Martian Lander easing down near Roswell, N.M., or in the West Texas sand dunes at Monahans.
What’s that? I have no idea what it would take to spay/neuter a Martian cat — I’ve been focused on promoting that practice for Planet Earth, its stray cats and a few humans I’ve met and read about through the years.
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