Brrr. Baby it’s cold outside! Stay warm…
Dirty Snow: We know it’s not you. You are not among those who have not been picking up after your dog. It is the occasional visitor, and the puppy owner, and the recently transplanted and uninitiated of course, but as the snow has piled up, obscuring paths off the trails, the trails have become littered with disgusting mounds of poop! It’s seems particularly revolting after weekends when the population of less informed dog owners take their weekly romp at Callahan. We can thank some members of Cal-Dog but especially many of our professional dog walkers for going the extra mile to clean up after OTHER people’s pets. Thank you dog walkers!
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a thousand times: if you see someone ignoring their dog’s waste, please remind them to clean up. Tuck a few extra poop bags in your pocket, and offer them a bag with which to scoop. And, while you have those extra bags in your pocket, why not use them? If you see a forgotten pile, why not take the selfless example of our professional dog walking friends – and bag a neglected nugget (it’s not so bad in the Winter. Really… especially on these frigid days – when the waste has become hard and smell-less. I know… I know… it’s not your fault and not your responsibility; it’s a lot to ask, but if everyone picked up just one frozen poop-sicle… well, who knows??). Speaking of a clean-up…
THIS COMING SUNDAY 2/13: Everything is easier when you do it with friends. We invite all of you to join us on the Millwood side of Callahan on Sunday, February 13th, between 11AM – 1:30PM. Our objective is two-fold: (1) to help eliminate as many poop-sicles as possible! (The more bags and hands, the more productive we can be. Please come and, please bring some extra bags. If you usually enter from the Edmands parking lot, bring some extra bags to scoop some poop marring the trails nearest that parking lot (and dump the filled poop bags in the trash barrel near the kiosk); and (2) to introduce our group (that includes you!) to the occasional and newbie visitors. Help spread the word. Let’s direct our fellow dog-owners to our website and facebook pages for information about off-leash parameters and multi-use guidelines on our special corner of the earth. The weekend visitors seem to need us most!
Be an ambassador of the Callahan Dog Owners Group every day: tell dog-peeps about us. We all talk to each other. We talk about our dogs – a lot! Let’s also spread the word about Cal-Dog. Suggest that fellow dog owners check out our website for information about where to leash and where to set free, for an email address to which they can direct questions or suggestions or have their contact information added to our list. Help make our group better known to the weekend warriors and the newbies. One of our goals is to educate the new and the uninitiated. Until the signs are corrected – replaced with the signs that had been promised by the DCR clearly defining on-leash from off-leash areas – it is up to us to help clear up misconception and misunderstanding caused by the misleading signs that presently are posted. Education is a good thing…
And now the news you’ve all been waiting for…
Happy Tails: If she could, Dora – the gorgeous German Shepherd looking for a home as her ‘mom’ transitions to assisted living – surely would say thank you to the many who opened their hearts and the handful that offered to open their homes. The humans can and do thank you. Dora’s owner Jeanne, and the kindly neighbor who made us aware of Dora’s plight (Louisa), relay that there were several wonderful forever homes opened to Dora – a few from our own Callahan midst. It was not an easy decision for Jeanne, but Dora will be going to live happily ever after with a dog-loving family in Washington DC, who have a German Shepherd sibling waiting to meet her.
For any who were moved to consider adoption upon hearing of Dora’s plight, remember that there are plenty of already abandoned beauties waiting for their happy ending. Check out Baypath Humane Society of Hopkinton, where presently a couple of dogs are in URGENT need offostering or adoption (both are about to lose their foster homes)
http://www.baypathhumane.org/component/option,com_wrapper/Itemid,113/
Meet Earl…
And Max…
See you all on Sunday, yeah???
