December 9 – 15 Last week I wrote about the Boxer in Perryville County that froze-to-death. You may remember that the dog had no layer of fat, skin stuck to bone, and bone grossly protruding from the cold body. The dog had a box without adequate bedding for any dog in the weather we were(…)
Happy Tails Update: Miss Audrey was adopted on 2/6/13. Congratulations Audrey! We wish you a long, happy life! …. She didn’t know which to take first: food or water. She desperately needed both. She just stood there taking neither… …. This dog, who we are calling Audrey Hepburn, was said to be a(…)
December 2 – 8 Monday morning I opened a Facebook link that showed a purebred Boxer lying outside of his excuse-of-a-dog-house. He was stiff: frozen to death by sheer neglect. He was stretched out like my pet cow, Carolyn, who had died when I was a kid of a heart attack in the dead of(…)
November 23-December 1 Kittens, cats: what to do about the unwanted felines. That is the question our board of directors is trying to figure out. It seems to me at least, that cats and kittens suffer the most in our county. They are easily forgotten. Being plentiful, it seems they are considered replaceable. They are(…)
November 18-22 The call came Sunday, November 10, 2013, “We have a pregnant dog at our church. Some of the members were talking about shooting her today. We don’t know what to do with her. Can you take this dog?” “She is going to pop puppies any time,” Laura, the caller warned. Laura and(…)
