Responsible pet ownership; Coosa Live hosts karaoke tonight

 

Let’s talk about pets. Many of my readers know of my trials with a neighbor’s pit bull that would enter my property and kill my livestock. I am also a dog lover, so dispatching a neighbor’s dog was going to be our last result, and I attempted to speak to the neighbor and the Sheriff’s Office. Fortunately, that is resolved as the neighbor is tied up in Florida, and the pit bull is no longer next door.

Another neighbor put up fencing to keep yet another neighbor’s dogs out of their yard. The intruding dog’s owner blamed the other saying it was their female dogs creating the problem and they would be taking action, and it was not their loose dog’s fault. Within days the first neighbor’s dogs started disappearing even with them being in a fenced property, and most recently one returned mortally wounded by a gun shot.

There is no telling who shot the dog; it is hunting season, and yes, the dogs must have gotten out of their property. It is very sad that young children have lost their pet. But the reality is, every pet owner must be responsible for their own pets. It is their responsibility to keep them confined to their own property for their own protection, as well as others’ protection, whether it be in-heat females or yummy chickens, ducks and turkeys.

Now on cats…we have another, not by choice. Seems a lovely long-haired orange cat has sought shelter on our property. It does not seem to be feral, just scared, so I am assuming it was dumped.

This is so sad that someone decided leaving a domestic cat in the wild was a proper way of freeing themselves of the responsibility of pet ownership or to find it a new home. It sleeps on our wood pile, but will come to the kitchen door in the morning meowing for food. We first mistook it for our orange barn cat, Tigger, but Tigger is a short-hair cat. I don’t need another barn cat, but I’m not going to leave it to be hunted or starved.

Coosa County Live Karaoke night is the final event for the year and takes place tonight, Friday, December 20, 7 to 9 p.m. While it is not mandatory, you are encouraged to bring a dish of shareable food for our “Potluck,” and if you can afford to drop something into the donation jar for the music, it helps keep the lights on. Coosa Live provides free coffee, iced tea, water, and fresh-popped popcorn, as well as some of the potluck offerings.

I am sure there are various Christmas programs at local churches. I have not been informed of any, but ask your neighbors or call the churches and see what special events they are holding and get out and celebrate the season.

See you all in the paper in the new year. Have a very blessed Christmas and happy New Year!

 

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