Cats have sharp pointy teeth, and teenagers need discipline.

The other day, I looked out the window at work and there was a Beagle tied to a fence post near the front door. Figured it was somebody who walked up with their dog and came inside to see our animals, so didn't think too much about it. An hour later, noticed the dog was still there. Walked around a bit asking people if they had a Beagle outside. No takers. Finally we brought it in. So in short, somebody abandoned a dog outside the shelter while we were OPEN. I don't get that. So, middle aged, plump, neutered male beagle. Any takers?

I got bit. An older cat Griz, whom we are treating for a UTI, got very angry at me for cleaning her cage. She sunk all her teeth and claws into my hand clear to the gumline. I said "ouch," and went and cleaned my wounds with hydrogen peroxide, as we always do when bitten. I think she got a tendon or nerve or something, because within an hour, I had lost nearly all use of my right hand, and it hurt like a mother bear. Now we get bitten on a fairly regular basis in my line of work. We know how to clean and treat such wounds. They rarely get infected, and we certainly don't go running to the doctor for every little nip. So I went home that night and iced it. Next morning, it was hugely swollen, and I was able to squeeze pus out of the holes. Now on Tuesdays, we are short-handed at work, so I didn't get a chance to go to the doctor until after we closed. My hand was pretty red by this time. The doctor spent 10 minutes on his computer going over all the bases on such an issue, and prescribed a whole bunch of meds, and told me to stay home the next couple days. I offered to go to work, but just answer phones and do office work, not clean and handle animals. He threatened to hospitalize me. So I'm home, and I'm taking 4,000 mg of assorted antibiotics a day. 

Oh yeah. Damn near forgot the big thing. Last Friday night, our shelter was broken into. They smashed a window into our Cat Intake room. Aside from the glass mess, they stole two dogs and nearly $500 cash. The dogs taken were a 1 year old American Bulldog/Lab/Hound mix, mostly white with brown patches on his rump and head. Super sweet dog! And a 8 week old yellow mixed breed male puppy. We had only had the puppy for a few days, so he was not neutered or microchipped yet, but Patch is. He will have a 24PetWatch chip beginning with OA10.... We have fingerprints, DNA from some blood, and a shoe print (where the dumb kid stepped in Piglet's poop in the hall! Goooo Piglet!!!) We also have a couple potential suspects that the police are in the process of tracking down. Patch may have been spotted in a back yard in a neighboring small town. Also that weekend, the store in that same neighboring small town, and our town's High School were broken into. Taken from the store were beer and cigarettes, I don't know about t he school. In both cases, windows were broken to gain entry. Related? Hmmm....

Only other bad thing is obviously the perps took the dogs through the cat area, because everyone's cages were a freaking disaster the next day. Food, water, litter, everything spilled! So the cats got scared and all went popcorn, but were fine by morning.