DOGNICITY

                          THE NEW "ONE NIGHT STAND"

Hi, I'm Parker, a foster dog that lives with Jet, who is a fierce advocate for creature care.  She is of the opinion that all her foster dogs pitch in around the office. As a lover of words and a bit of an intellectual, I chose to write her blog: Greater Than Us (GTU) which is Jet's initiative to "unite business America with creature causes".

As a professional columnist and blogger, I follow Jet's favorite adage: teach, not tell; serve, not sell.  - Which leads me to my blog entry and the lesson I hope to convey this week.

Humans have a peculiar way of defining 'events' in their life.  Case in point: One Night Stand.  It means an intimate [human] encounter limited to one evening.  Some inventive dog rescuers in Texas decided to give the term a whole new meaning.  In the Dallas area, Tawana Couch rescues dogs from kill zone shelters that are about to euthanize my four-legged friends. Each dog then stays in the home of a volunteer for "one night" where the rescued canines enjoy food, attention, exercise and sometimes a bath.  The next morning the dogs are picked up, placed in a crate and flown to non-kill shelters for adoption. So now "one night stand" is a loving [dog] encounter for one evening. 

I included photos of one of the program volunteers, Pam Duffy and her one night stand rescues who she named Bella and Winston.  You have to admit there is a slight resemblance between Winston and Mr. Churchill.

Volunteer Duffy with one night stand: "Bella".

I'm just a foster dog - albeit a very smart one, but even I can see that although some humans are screw ups who abandon perfectly good animals like me there are also those with the will to save us.  This brings me to my lesson: humans have an incredible capacity to transform bad into good when they apply themselves to do so. This includes changing an empty, fleeting one night tryst into a courageous effort to airlift dogs every month to forever homes elsewhere.  - A simple transformation ignited by a love for animals, a little entrepreneurial ingenuity with some wordsmith-ing of an old American idiom.  What are you transforming in your life that yields as much good? 

               

                            Question from a Fan 

Dear Parker: My humans have kids who they reward with small, green paper when they take out the trash and do the

    dishes.  They reward me with a pat on the head.  Could you           give my parents a few ideas about rewards I could enjoy more?       The green paper is only good for shredding.  Bozer

    Bozer, thanks for writing.  To Bozer's parents, I hope you  

    will consider the following as alternative rewards for your 

    canine kid: a long walk, low calorie treats (not human 

    food) or simply a few minutes of fetch every day.

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