Straydog UPDATE posted SUNDAY 10/5/03 at ~9:11 p.m. CT

Bill Arnold's Daily Straydog Log

SUNDAY OCTOBER 5 2003

It's been raining all day with temperatures in the low 70s

     As always our daily routine was followed. (We only halt operations, as I've said before, when there's lightning, and there was none today.) One new employee quit at her lunch break, saying it was just too cold and wet for her. I told her if she couldn't hack this weather, she certainly wouldn't like it when it's 35 degrees with ice cold rain and sleet falling. She agreed and left. This just wasn't her "cup of tea," we both agreed. The rest of the crew filled in for the exiting caregiver.

Mandi's in Jack and Jill's kennel with her poop bucket and a shovel.

A caregiver/walker takes Muff, Buff and Fluff back to their kennel after their
turn in the park in the pouring rain, temperature about 70 degrees.

The caregiver/walker gives the threesome a treat before she leaves them to go on to the next set of dogs.

As the rain pours down, the caregiver/walker closes the gate saying goodbye to Buffy. That's Muffy
on her way to her shelter. Fluffy's no doubt already in her dog house hoping she'll dry off as soon as possible.

 

Newsletter is almost ready to stuff into envelopes

     The crew got done with all the outside work about a quarter to five this evening, so I had them spend their last 15 minutes folding Erin's two-page letter to her mom (Pat Arnold), which Erin wants to include with my four-page abbreviated newsletter. Erin's also working on four additional pages of photos of Pat and the dogs, which Erin assures me will be finished, printed and brought to Straydog (by Erin herself) when she comes to help out with the mailing tomorrow. We will then commence stuffing the three separate pieces into the already labeled and stamped envelopes, and hopefully we'll get a large batch to the post office by tomorrow night.

 

View of the park in the pouring rain from the open sliding glass door. The orange thing is a rain coat.