Richard Crowe's Blog – May 2013 Archive (5)

When I brought my several Maltese and Holly out to go potty last night, they all started barking at the slope next to my house on which we have rosemary growing.  I could see what appeared to be twinkling of several eyes.  Holly ran towards it and just as fast retreated back into the house, completely scared.  A couple of the Maltese were still barking at the "intruders"...

Turned out that what we thought were "intruders" was a partially deflated mylar party balloon.  It was…

We were watching a video about Venice Italy the other night in preparation for our trip.  All our dogs were sleeping around the family room with Holly sleeping on the couch.  The video was showing the Venice Film Festival and the presenter was calling to a friend of hers, Oliver, in the crowd of people.

"Ollie!", she called!

Holly's head came up.

"Ollie!" she called again...

Holly jumped off the couch, ran over to the sliding…

Scenario:

You live in an area called "Tornado Alley" and your town has already experienced two devastating F-4 and F-5 tornados over the last 12-years.

Would you not expect your schoold to be equipped with tornado safe shelters or non-flooding basements?

Or... are not the lives of Oklahoma kids worth the few thousand dollars it would take to protect them?

Along the same lines...  A non-intrudable security door would have protected the kids at the Sandy Hook,…

We were at a rescue event in Irvine, CA and a woman came up to us and asked if she could trade in her dog for a smaller one.  I thought at first that she was joking but, she was totally serious.  The dog at ten pounds was bigger than she wanted.

I told  her that we would accept her Maltese as an owner surrender but there would be no way that she would get a dog from us.  She was indignant and said, "I haven't had the dog all that long, just 9-months!"

There…

We went to an adoption event today with our Scottish Terrier + Maltese cross: Terra (for terrier) and her three male puppies: Huey, Dewey and Louie.  Terra, Dewey and Louie got adopted.  I brought one puppy home.  We now have no adult fosters in our home and just three puppies. That is being empty nesters for the Crowe house...

We will probably keep our numbers down since we are traveling to Venice, Greece and Istanbul soon and also we have additional fosters to help us.