All the Creatures

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The article written by Alonso Kramer

I had a lot to think about when I moved into my new farmhouse but I think what I was most worried about was the dogs. I’d gotten satellite internet Jennings Kansas service and arranged for the trash to be picked up and the movers got here without a hitch. Anyway, what I was worried about was that the dogs wouldn’t stay within the confines of the yard and since the property is just entirely too big to put a fence around I didn’t know what I was going to do. I had visions of them running off into the woods to chase bugs and birds and us never seeing them again, you know? But low and behold, when I took them out of the car they were actually terrified to have so much room! They stuck close to the house and though they’ve loosened up since we’ve moved in they still don’t like to go too far. Who would have thought they’d self-contain themselves after so many years of chasing them up and down the block?

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When this housing crisis first began a few years ago, I kept hearing horror stories of pets being left in foreclosed homes and found either dead or close to death by realtors weeks later. Pets have taken the brunt of this bad economy.

People who lost their jobs and then their homes have no resources left for their pets that they acquired years before and expected to keep them for the pet’s entire lifespan. Most pets rescues turned them away because they were overcrowded. Then some of the rescues had to shut their doors forever due to lack of donations. Rental homes and apartments would not allow pets or if they did they added a sizable cleaning fee to the deposit that someone who just lost about everything could not afford. So abandonment seemed like the only way to handle their pet situation.

Amidst all of this, I hear on tonight’s nightly news that there is a boom in spending on dogs. Where in the creation are these people getting their information from? Certainly not from those who are in charge of animal control in this country. Although I do see ads for Cape Cod rentals pet friendly that for $1500 a week you can take your dog with you but first add at least $300 in fees. Those places are not aimed toward the middle class income families but the more wealthy among us.

There seems to such extremes with this economy right now and our pets are the victims of it.

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My little Min Pin had a mystery pain that would come and go over a period of several weeks. He would walk hunched over at times for about an hour and then be OK. I knew the pain had to be muscle related but where was he hurting and how did he get injured?

After several weeks I finally discovered the cause…………it was his dog collar, or to be more precise him jerking on his collar when he was tied up. You see our neighbor is putting up a new fence and is taking forever to get it finished so we had been tying up my little guy outside under a huge shade tree for about 20 minutes a few times a day. What we didn’t find out until a few days ago is that he was lunging at the end of his tie out to get to a bird that liked to visit the part of the lawn, just beyond his reach. Each time he did that he would injure his neck.

Then I had to go and look for another alternate dog collar. So my quest began for dog collars. I looked at every type of padded collars and even the rolled leather dog collars. What I ended up buying was a padded dog harness that was designed for dogs to be worn in cars. Unlike the normal dog harness which is nothing more than an added strap that goes around the ribs attached to a dog collar, this harness has a padded breast plate that the straps are attached to. There is no pressure on his neck.

Now I can’t wait until the neighbor finishes putting up the fence. I think it will take another month because of the heat wave we are in right now. He has the posts in but he needs to run the wire fence for the entire 500 feet yet.

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