Some cat.
Rosie is mad and sulking and on the other couch.
by John Cole| 13 Comments
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By request, from commentor Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.) :
We had to let our dog Athelbert go on Wednesday. He was 12 or 13 and he had prostate cancer. Seems they can help people with prostate cancer, but they don’t yet know how to do it with dogs. We were with him when he went, so maybe that helped him a little. It helped us, at least.
I met him in Tela, Honduras on the beach in 2003. I brought him to the U.S. in 2005, and he lived with us ever since. He was a good friend, which is about the best thing you can say about anybody, I guess. Tomorrow I’ll take him down to my mother’s house in the country and bury him. It’s so weird not having him around. I keep finding myself thinking that it’s time to take him out or feed him. And the 200 mile trip to my mother’s house will seem unreal without him making me scratch his head the whole way down.
His name was actually Aþelbert, with a “þ”, but in a pinch, I spelled it with a “th”. It might seem odd that a Honduran dog would have an Old English name, but that’s just the kind of guy he was. He didn’t play by anybody else’s rules.
Vaya con Dios, Athelbert. I’m gonna go give my guys some extra attention now…
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ABC US News | ABC Business News
Since there is no Recipe Exchange today, this Turkey is your consolation prize:
… On Monday in Orlando, Fla., the Orange County Animal Services discovered the 3-month-old black kitten made a gobbling noise when she ate her meals. She was appropriately named Turkey.
The video ran on a local news station’s “Pet of the Week” segment in the hope that the gobbling kitty would be adopted.
Friday morning, Turkey finally went home with her new mom, according to Carolina Mlynarczyk, marketing and public relations coordinator with Orange County Animal Services.
I just seriously hope her new people appreciate a little girl who’s gonna have an opinion about everything…
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Apart from squee, what’s on the agenda for the start of the weekend?
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Paging Sarah, Proud & Tall… From the site:
Nathan is an entertaining, healthy, hilarious, hairless chinese crested who was adopted through Bald is Beautiful Hairless & Small Dog Rescue.He LOVES to “wiggle it” in the chair for treats. The feel-good back scratch is just an extra perk. Enjoy!…
Bald is Beautiful has some lovely pups in need of homes…
check them out on:
www.baldisbeautifuldogrescue.org
(More Nathan videos available through the YouTube link.)
One of our (papillon) rescue dogs is a puppy-mill three-time-loser who does the horizontal version of this dance on his favorite corner of the couch. Sydney’s hairier than Nathan, but even at age five he’s still got a nearly-naked pink ‘puppy tummy’ (and thumb-shaped dewclaws on his back paws, plus one ear standing up & the other drooping for the ‘sad clown dogge’ look… like I said, puppy-mill survivor).
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Kelly O, at Seattle’s Stranger:
… Motley Zoo is a nonprofit animal rescue based in Redmond, and its cofounder Jme Thomas (pronounced Jamie) has one of the best photo ideas to date: What if you took a photo of Macklemore, or Snoop Dogg, or some of the dudes in Slayer holding a kitten or a puppy? That’s a no-brainer: The cool-groupie rock animal picture gets blasted around the internets, and the animal gets adopted right away! Hannah Levin (producer and host of Seek and Destroy on KEXP) recently started working with Thomas to organize animal/musician meet-and-greets. “There’s something endlessly entertaining about handing a kitten to a rough and tough rock dude and watching him melt,” says Levin. “Most importantly, though, it’s proven to be an effective way to find homes for the four-legged buddies.”
Named as KING 5’s favorite local charity last year, Motley Zoo, which was founded in 2009, is certainly kicking some ass. “We have adopted out 1,200 pets to date,” says Thomas. “I started Motley with my husband, Bryan. We wanted to change the idea of what an animal rescue could be—we wanted to make it fun and a little rock ‘n’ roll. And it’s working.” She says future photo shoots will include ZZ Top, Mastodon, and Mötley Crüe.
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Apart from squeeeeeee, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
by John Cole| 25 Comments
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From a Balloon Juice reader:
Urgent dogs: Baby Girl! Time is not her friend at this point! Our sponsors do not want to see anything happen to her and have given us the gift of increased sponsorship ($350) to reputable rescue!
Time is about to be called for Baby Girl. She has a deep voice and has some food guarding issues (Feed separately!), but she loves people. She wants to be a lap dog no matter what size she is. She shakes, sits, speaks and wants to be near her people. She’s older and is selective about the dogs she accepts and doesn’t like cats. But she so adores people. Someone must have a place for her! She would be a great only dog and love her people. Baby Girl’s sponsorship has been increased to $350 to reputable rescue.
Jackson County Animal Shelter, Cottageville, WV (PA Licensed)
Website: http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/WV12.html
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/JCASgroup
Mailing List: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/JacksonCoAS
Subscribe: send an email to [email protected] (yahoogroups.com)
Here is a personal testimonial:
Hi everyone,
We don’t normally do this, but we have a special connection to this dog, and unfortunately, because she doesn’t like cats, we are unable to take her ourselves (we were so hoping to be able to do so).
It is breaking our hearts that Baby Girl is still in the shelter and is in danger… we fostered her two beautiful puppies, Ruby and Jade, this winter. They were incredibly friendly, social, sweet, and smart girls. They were both adopted several weeks ago and are doing wonderfully in their new homes. If their temperaments were a testament of how their mother raised them for their first 8 weeks, Baby Girl must be incredible too. We were hoping to foster her, but unfortunately she doesn’t get along with cats, and we have six very social kitties here. Please, if you are a cat-free home, consider rescuing this girl… she sounds like a doll and so deserves to know the love of a home.
Please contact us if you are at all interested in learning more about this beautiful girl. She literally needs you- time is of the essence! She will be put down if no help is found, simply because the shelter is running out of space to continue holding her. If you are unable to help, please, pass this along to everyone you know!
Folks in the WV, Central-Eastern OH, and Western PA area, anyone interested or no someone who might be?
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I have a new hockey player to watch:
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — David Backes went to Sochi hoping to bring home a gold medal with the U.S. hockey team. Instead, the St. Louis Blues’ captain brought back a couple of stray puppies.
Backes and his wife, Kelly, rescued the dogs from the streets of the Olympic city with members of the Canadian team’s entourage. Now in quarantine in St. Louis, the dogs will eventually be given to good homes.
***Backes and his wife, who have four rescue dogs and two rescue cats in their home and set up their own foundation, Athletes for Animals, last November, received helped from Canadian winger Jeff Carter’s girlfriend, Megan Keffer, and defenseman Drew Doughty’s girlfriend, Nicole Arruda, and others. The 3- to- 4-month-old pups, named Sochi Junior and Sochi Jake, were brought back to the U.S. on an Air Atlas charter to Newark and another flight to St. Louis.
“They fought for their lives every day on the street and now they’re laying on our laps in flights across the Atlantic,” Backes said.
As they say, read the whole thing, as it is a really sweet story amidst another day of nonsense.