COUNTY LIFE
Shelter pets bring so much love to a home
Blue
Ditto
This Saturday is Clear the Shelter Day, a nationwide promotion to bring awareness to shelters and their animals. Many shelters are having special events or reduced rates for adoptions. Have you considered a shelter pet for your family?
A c c o r d i n g t o t h e American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 6.5 million companion animals enter U.S. animal shelters nationwide every year. Of those, 3.3 million are dogs and 3.2 million are cats. Each year, approximately 1.5 million shelter animals are euthanized (670,000 dogs and 860,000 cats). There are 3.2 million shelter animals adopted each year. About 710,000 animals who enter shelters as strays are returned to their owners. Those are startling statistics for our nation, but for those involved in shelter operations whether it be professionally or as volunteers, they are fully aware of the high numbers.
In Montague County there are three animal shelters: City of Bowie Animal Shelter, Easy Street Shelter in Saint Jo and Lucky Paws in
Nocona.
Any weekend you will find volunteers taking pets out to adoption events. Other times they are feeding animals, cleaning pens, washing dogs or walking them. There is no doubt their heart is in their work because it’s dirty, difficult and heart-wrenching.
Our house
Today, the Greens are a two-dog family, both shelter adoptions. Ditto is a beagle mix with a sweet, loving personality and bright brown
eyes. Blue is a mischievous laid-back pup with light blue eyes.
Read the full column on shelter adoptions in your weekend News.
The 22nd annual July Jam returns on July 27 to the Bowie Community Center West Hall, 413 Pelham Street in Bowie.
There will be a “chickin’ pickin’ fiddling fun time” as guests will be entertained by amazing fiddling tunes and enjoying a chicken meal with delicious homemade jams because it wouldn’t be July Jam without it.
Tickets are just $15 with the event starting at 6 p.m. The funds raised help provide awards for the Championship Fiddler Competition during Chicken and Bread Days Heritage Festival on Oct. 5.
This attracts talented musicians from all over to visit downtown Bowie to test their fiddling skills on stage in the Bowie Fire Hall on Oct. 5.
Along with the live fiddling entertainment, come hungry and be ready to outbid your neighbors at the silent auction or just stop by for a great meal, fellowship and soak in the air conditioning.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
The Nocona City Council met this past week making plans for budget and tax rate hearings.
Councilors received a brief update on the 2024-25 budget preparations. City Secretary Revell Hardison said the final proposal is almost complete and they now await the arrival of the no-new revenue tax rate that will be reviewed by the council after it is calculated by the tax collector.
The proposal includes a tax rate increase of about 3% similar to last year and there will be a small increase in water and sewer rates, but Hardison said the final crunch on those will come after the tax rate projections arrive.
Read the full story in the mid-week Bowie News.
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