HEE-HAW: It's a dog's world

The Humane Society of Southeast Texas should stick to finding homes for stray and unwanted animals.

Now they are making the ridiculous recommendation that in the event a hurricane evacuation is called, you should bring your pets as well. In fact, it is morally wrong to leave them home. After all, they are family members too and you wouldn't leave Grandma behind, would you?

Most people are multiple pet owners and would have to rent a Suburban to fit in all the family and pets along with the food, clothes, valuable possessions...The idea is even more ridiculous when you consider that most hotels/motels and shelters don't allow pets. Your friends and relatives that you run to probably don't appreciate it either: it's hard enough to absorb a whole family into their home much less the animals they drag with them.

Aggravating the problem will be local county leaders who will not let people return to their homes until THEY decide...how would you like to be on the road with an upset wife and kids AND dogs/cats for a week or more?

A lady I know evacuated for Rita with 3 cats in the same pet taxi and guess what, the cats fought and she ended up losing one of them somewhere in East Texas. Poor Mineaux.

Hell, all of our cats rode out the storm in the yard and every one of them made...although they were traumatized by the sound of tin flapping in the wind. We even ended up with an extra one.

Lately every idiot leader of every idiot organization out there has become an "expert" and has to put in their worthless two cents about what we should do in case of another hurricane.

Does anyone remember the two evacuations Jefferson County and the city called for that came to nothing? It dramatically slowed down the local economy for weeks after that. We must of been the laughing stock of the state, maybe nation, when Andrew went wide north east and landed in the Louisiana marsh a couple of hundred miles away from us. Presumably the only casualties were Nutr'a rats and some alligators.

Another thing that bugs me is people who go everywhere with their dog. They even take them on vacation...invite them to the beach and Fido comes too. You see them at the resorts in the early morning hours wandering around the grounds until their dog finally decides to take a crap...then they head back to the A/C. The funniest ones are the old men following the little lap dogs.

I hate dogs.

I've had the bastards chase me on my bike in all parts of town this year. This spring the dogs all had a bad attitude and would chase anything that moved. Even in the West End. I think it should be open season on dogs that wander the streets chasing after people. Don't bother to call Animal Control because by the time they get there sometime later that day the little culprits are gone.

Don't believe dog owners who say their doesn't bite...I got bit by one on a chain. The owner kept saying "don't worry, he won't bite"... They all think little Rover can do no wrong and turn a blind eye to their baby, even though the thing will kill all the wildlife in the yard, bury it and later dig it up the corpse for a gruesome snack. They even make excuses when the dumb beasts sniff the butts and hump the legs of their guests. I'd be willing the owner of the one that bit me still tells people his dog doesn't bit.

Cats get a bad rap for bird killing. Some birding nut in Galveston even shot a bunch of cats at the San Luis Pass Bridge last year that were kept by the toll booth clerk. The nut says he killed them because he caught them eyeballing some seabirds. I rode down that way last year on the bike and talked to the guy at the toll booth before all that happened. Nice fellow. I noticed the plates of cat food placed around the booth area.

Other wackos have said domestic cats are responsible for a decline in bird populations. I think more birds are killed by flying in front of automobiles than by cats.

You never hear anyone complaining about how many squirrels and 'possums meet an untimely death at the jaws of a household dog. I guess it's kinda like how some people's lives in the human world are worth more than others...