August 31, 2009

Note: This article first appeared in the July 2002 Clay News.

I was riding along with a couple of my friends discussing where to eat lunch, when we saw a car stopping along the edge of Old Springville Road in Huffman. Curious, we waited to see if the car would go. Suddenly, a kitten was thrown out of the passenger side, then the car drove off. Shocked, we took a minute to decide what to do. What would you have done?

I asked my friend to follow the car, which stopped at a local grocery store. I got the tag number. Then my friend asked me, “What do you want to do now?” I asked her to let me talk to the man. There were a lady and a man in the car and the man was getting out of the passenger’s side.

I said to him, in the most childlike innocent voice I have, “Excuse me, excuse me sir, did you realize that a cat came out of your car?”

July 31, 2009

  Looks like the local community is “going to the dogs.” Geese are not friends with dogs. But evidently some people are, or there wouldn’t be so many of them causing complaints. Seems to me, dogs are like children, everyone likes their own, but other peoples’ dogs can become a nuisance.

The sad case is that sometimes people show more love for their dogs than their neighbor. I live in the natural world. We don’t have pets. It’s all I can do to care for my offspring. Then when they become independent, I am glad to have a break. Maybe the answer is for people to have more children instead of dogs. But children and dogs seem to go together.

Occasionally, I have found honking at dogs works. Maybe we all can try that. Humans can honk too. Of course, then maybe neighbors will complain of the honking. Since we stay around Cosby Lake most of the time, none of the residents across the street have complained of our honking. But I do hear cars honking, occasionally. I am glad I don’t crow like a rooster.