Porter prowling with puppy dog eyes,
Bill preparing for an evening out.
The dog throwing his patheticism like a weapon.
“I can’t nap when you’re gone, like I nap when you’re here.
I can’t stalk the night skulkers when you’re gone,
torture the neighbor cats,
trot the stairs,
gaze out the windows,
like I can when you’re here.” He says.
With his puppy dog eyes.
3:30am
and the adolescent raccoons are wrestling on my roof, over my bedroom,
no wonder Porter’s making agitated trips about the back yard,
-b
Well,
It finally happened. Porter caught himself a cat.
I was about to leave this morning, when he hopped outside and I realized he was bolting for something. A cute, newish-to-the-neighborhood cat, fuzzy white with blue eyes. He had it in his mouth when I got to him. The cat had a clutch on his face as well.
I got him separated from it. Of course, the cat swiped at me and got a good gouge in through my jeans. Also hurt a finger trying to restrain the flesh hungry hound.
I was surprised the cat didn’t bolt. Seems porter broke his back. No tags on the kitty, so I wrapped him in a towel and put him on the front lawn. His breathing sounded strained as well.
He flopped a little, trying to run, when I came back out to leave for work. I hope someone he belongs to found him and could do what needs to be done. It was gone when I got home, but I’m sure the cat should be dead by now.
Lots of porter blood, and clotting scars. Not as much as he’s had a dozen times before from run-ins with larger thing, animate or otherwise.
I’m surprised this is the first one he’s dispatched. Certainly not for lack of trying, but those darn fences protect the more wiley cats. I was a little stressed from it at first, but death is part of life, hunting is the hound’s nature. And the cats in our neighborhood mostly don’t even seem to be pets or domesticated, so differentiating them from a squirrel (aka tree rat) seems unwarranted. R.I.P. cute white kitty.
-b
From a few days ago in the paper. Houston Greyhound Pets of America among the best non-profits in the city…
-bill
Nonprofits lend a bigger helping hand
Houston groups ranked at top in national studyBy MIKE SNYDER
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
June 19, 2003, 11:45PMFor every dollar it gets from donors, the Houston Area Women’s Center spends 84 cents on shelter and services for domestic violence survivors.
Only 16 cents goes to fund-raising and administrative costs.
Such efficiency is characteristic of Houston’s largest nonprofits, which rank among the nation’s best in a new study evaluating the financial health of some 2,500 tax-exempt organizations around the country.
(more…)
if you were wondering, the current picture i’m using is of my dog, Porter. he’s a retired greyhound, 8 years old currently, and a total couch potato.
he mostly sleeps on the couch all day, or is jumping in your face when you arrive, he’s white with ticking and has a fawn brindle patch on his face,
there’s some more pics of him at
http://www.shirl.com/greyhounds/
if you’re interested
-b
