And Some People Say Dogs are Dumb!

Had a wonderful weekend! Saturday, Casey and I bought a new white cabinet to use as a pantry cabinet in the kitchen. See we live in an older house, so cabinet space and electrical outlets are scarce. We got the cabinet for a steal, so now we have extra space. Other than that, we just watched movies, laid around, and took a rather lenghty nap Saturday afternoon. Yesterday, I got up and got ready to take Mom out for her Mother's Day lunch. We went to the Bell Buckle Cafe. Bell Buckle is a little artsy community not too far outside of Shelbyville. They have lots of cool little antique shops there. They serve a lot of different food, but specialize in southern country dinner plates. Yesterday we had chicken and dressing, green beans, squash casserole, and fried corn. The best part was the new dessert they are serving. We had a huge piece of lemonade cake with cream cheese frosting!! It was to die for!!! I can't wait to have another piece of that. I've got to find a recipe for it. Afterwards we took Casey his lunch, since he ended up working yesterday. Last night, Casey grilled and we all got together at my brother's for a Mother's Day dinner. I really enjoyed my weekend. I'm at work today, since we were closed on Satruday. So, as you can tell, I'm not at the kennel. I will be going to help Jennie with obedience class tonight.

Got this in an e-mail from a fellow humane volunteer today. You can read another article about it on CNN.com too. I thought I'd pass it along to you all. Chalk up another point for dogs!! Enjoy!!

Dog 'adopts' abandoned baby in rural Kenya

By Rodrique Ngowi

Nairobi - A nursing dog foraging for food retrieved an abandoned baby girl in a forest in Kenya and carried the infant to its litter of puppies, witnesses said on Monday.

The stray dog carried the infant across a busy road in a poor neighbourhood near the Ngong Forests in the capital, Nairobi, Stephen Thoya told the independent Daily Nation newspaper.

The dog apparently found the baby on Friday in the plastic bag in which the infant had been abandoned, said Aggrey Mwalimu, owner of the compound where the animal is now living. It was unclear how the baby survived in the bag without suffocating.

Doctors said the baby had been abandoned about two days before the dog discovered her. Medical workers later found maggots in the infant's umbilical cord, a product of days of neglect, Hannah Gakuo, the spokesperson of the Kenyatta National Hospital, where the girl was taken for treatment, said on Monday. No one has yet claimed the baby, she said.

But the 3.3kg infant "is doing well, responding to treatment, she is stable... she is on antibiotics," Gakuo told The Associated Press. Workers at the hospital are calling the child Angel, she said.

Unwanted infants are often abandoned in Kenya - sometimes they are even dumped into pit latrines. Poverty and mothers' failed relationships with fathers are often blamed for the problem, and Kenya's weak law enforcement and social security systems means that most people who abandon babies are never caught.

"Abandoned babies are normally taken to the Kenyatta National Hospital because it is a public hospital," Gakuo said. "People are now donating diapers and baby clothes for this one." - Sapa-AP

Published on the Web by IOL on 2005-05-09 14:57:33

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