In case I didn't mention it, which I don't think I did.... Remember the beagle/pointer mix who was unceremoniously dumped at the shelter after 10 years with a family? I scrambled to place our other (less endearing) foster beagle, Chester, and visited the shelter to tell them that if his time ran out, I'd take Bagel. Naturally, Bagel suckered me as I walked away from his kennel and I took him home with me last week. Since then we've placed Chester and had Bagel neutered. He's the nicest dog ever.

In other news, my cohort in rescue is out of town so I'm getting a lot more emails and phone calls than usual. It's amazing how much people expect me to know and be able to do. Today's emails include 2 about dogs we don't have in rescue, dogs I've never heard of, with such detail as this:

I was wondering about the sacramento Ca puppy. can you tell me more info?? There is no puppy

Or this:

I AM IN SACRAMENTO AND INTERESTED IN THE FEMALE BEAGLE AT THE SHELTER. PLEASE SEND ME MORE INFO WHEN POSSIBLE. This dog could be the dog in Tracy, but since our website lists a number of female dogs in shelters, how am I supposed to know???

Another family has an agressive dog and wanted to tell me all about his agressiveness but not take my advice about how to correct it. Well, shit, if you're not going to listen, don't call me. I could always bill them for my time, which is the one thing you can't write off.