January 16, 2010

  • Don and I used to remark to each other that it surely came around more than once a year.  The traffic is rather a nuisance if one lives fairly close to it, as I do.  However, it brings in a fair chunk o' bucks to our fair city, so it's grudgingly welcome.

    This morning was the Stock Show parade, which is entirely unmotorized, and Hal was riding a horse, with Elaine and the girls in a wagon!  Naturally I trekked down to watch them; first came HaL:

    He looked as if he was having a grand time, but then so did Elaine, Meredith and Margaret:

    On another topic, this morning Dmitry's blasted alarm went off again (did it yesterday, too, though it was a holiday) at 6:20 a.m.  After a couple of minutes of waiting for SOMEONE in there to turn it off, I grumpily went in myself, feeling around for whatever was causing the noxious noise.  Finally Zhenya got up, and when I asked where Dmitry was, he replied that he was outside in his car with a dog.

    I beg your pardon?  He's where with what? 

    Zhenya explained that Dmitry had found - in the middle of the night when I suppose the boys were outside talking - a dog running loose.  Not wanting to disturb the household (that would be Jessica and me, as the girls are with their father on the weekends), nor willing to allow the dog to roam the neighborhood, and being pretty sure he knew where it lived but figured this was too early to knock on their door, he sat with the large black dog in his car, reading his bible.  Couldn't think of anything helpful to do other than offer to make him some coffee, which Dmitry gratefully accepted.

    To make a long, rather sad, story short, the woman whose dog it is had a dust-up with her husband last night and refused to take the dog, which is both a jumper and a barker.  Nice dog, mind, but mercy Maud, does she jump and bark!  Not admirable traits in a dog, and in any case, with seven cats there's no room for a pooch.  Jessica left a note on her door, saying if she wants the dog she'll need to come retrieve it pretty quickly, otherwise animal control is coming.

    We feel really bad about it, especially Jessica, who was willing to take it to her house in NRH for a few days, though that seemed like sort of a mean trick to play on her neighbors.

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  • Well, I guess it's a bit late now, but aren't there any no-kill shelters around, or at least places that make a bit more effort to get the animals placed than the standard animal control routine? There are people out there willing to take dogs that aren't aggressive but need a little training to be good pets, if they can be found.

  • It all worked out! Joe came over and brought Max, and the two dogs played together like crazy. Joe finally decided to take her, though if having both dogs in the apartment isn't practicable, she'll go to Jessica's until other arrangements can be made (such as the Humane Society, where her friend, Sherri, works).

  • Thanks for coming down to watch the parade!

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