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.
It has been quite a busy few days at the Montague County Youth Fair with schedule changes, juggling of events and trying to cope with the unexpected snow storm. However, the youth fair always rolls on thanks to the dedicated volunteers, coordinators, parents and students.
Friday the rabbit how starts at 10 a.m., with heifer and steer show at 2 p.m. Ag. mech. check-in at 6 p.m. with that show at 9 a.m. on Saturday. Swine will move into the barn later today with its show at 9 a.m. Saturday.
Saturday the home economics silent auction will start at 6 p.m. and run to 9 p.m. in the show barn. Showmanship buckles will be presented at 6 p.m. in the barn followed by leadership day awards. The premium sale is at 6:30 p.m. Make plans to come out and support these hard working kids and families.
See all the winners in the Thursday Bowie News.
Top photo – Poultry show photo taken by Rashonda Hobbs of Unfazed Creations, official photographer for the youth fair. Make sure and check out her photos.
When we were going through my grandmother’s house in Nocona after it sold, I found a few neat keepsakes, but the biggest treasure I thought I had found was her biscuit cutter. I was so excited to show my mother (her daughter) and just knew she would be happy it was found and would still be used after all this time.
My mother, however, had a different thought about my precious biscuit cutter. She said, “Suzanne, you know that biscuit cutter is just an old tomato paste can that has both ends cut out.”
I was still no less delighted with my cutter. I continue to use it today. My husband has bought me vintage, new and fancier cutters, but this cutter is something I go back to time and again.
My Memaw was recruited to be a lunch lady from 1952 to 1958 at Nocona Elementary, back when lunches were cooked, not “fixed.” Lenora Brown Burnett was an excellent cook and everyone knew it. She went on to work at the Nocona Major Clinic kitchen from 1958 to 1969.
You could only use shortcuts if you knew how to do it the long way. That is how I still approach cooking. You can only use a cake mix if you know how to make a cake with lots of ingredients, time and effort.
Read Suzanne’s Love & Luck column in the Thursday Bowie News on the On the Table page.
Top photo – Grandmother’s biscuit cutter and hand written recipes. (Photo by Suzanne Storey)
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