Thursday, June 02, 2005, 19:09
This Weekend
I will not be posting a blog entry on Friday, June 3, or Saturday, June 4, and maybe not on Sunday, either. I am scheduled to do a book signing at Simon's Specialty Cheese in Little Chute, Wisconsin, on Saturday, June 4, from noon to 3 p.m. for the Great Wisconsin Cheese Festival. We are leaving on Friday and will be back Sunday afternoon.
Here's wishing you a great weekend!
LeAnn R. Ralph
Thursday, June 02, 2005, 19:04
Some people. . .
The other night, Randy and I took the dogs for a walk up the dirt road. Our neighbor came by in her car and stopped and talked for a while. She used to have horses years ago, sold them, and finally got another horse last year.
Anyway, she stopped to tell us that when she was riding through the woods the other night, she heard a noise behind her, stopped and looked around, and there were some wild dogs following her. Three of them. She said they were German Shepherds, very thin and dirty, and that she supposed someone had a litter of puppies they didn't want and had dumped them off and figured they could fend for themselves. She also said another neighbor had seen them skulking around his woods and his barn. She called the sheriff's department, but they said they couldn't do anything about the dogs unless someone saw them run down a deer and kill it.
The poor things. I feel sorry for them. I suppose the dogs have been out on their own for so long now that they are past being able to be domesticated again. That kind of thing really makes me angry and upset. Would it take so terribly much effort to put an ad in the paper and find homes for puppies? Would it be so unthinkable to make up a few posters and hang them around town to advertise puppies that need a good home? Would it be such an alien idea to have the female dog spade before she has puppies?
I would like to take the person who dumped them off and leave that person in the middle of a wilderness and expect him to fend for himself (or herself). That's my dad talking now, you know. Dad was always upset when someone dumped off animals. "How would *they* like it if someone threw them out of a car in the middle of nowhere, where they didn't have any food and didn't know how to find food or how to take care themselves?" he would say.
We seem to have a problem with people dumping off animals around here. Every once in a while, we end up with cats that someone has abandoned. And a few years back, another neighbor, who came to get a kitten from me, said she had awakened one morning to find three bull calves on her lawn. That's right. Bull calves. As in baby cows. That was at a time when farmers could not give away bull calves. It cost them more to ship the calves to the stockyard than the price they could get for the calves.
At any rate, I'm figuring I should not go for a walk through the woods with Pixie and Charlie. I have enough to worry about as it is without breaking up a fight between "wild" dogs and my dogs.
LeAnn R. Ralph
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