What Chicago is talking about this week ...
... the animal rescues!
I've said it before and I'll say it again (today and many more times as relevant): I tend to like animals more than people on most days. (But not you -- you who are reading this is my favorite person ever.) So it was heartwarming to see two big news stories leading up to this holiday weekend.
First there was the daring duckling disentanglement -- that apparently started with someone moving a mama and her brood from a city garage to Lake Shore Drive (really? was that helping?) -- where they did survive the traffic but where some of the little ones fell into a sewer grate. City police, firefighters and streets and sanitation all were involved in the rescue -- as the mother duck watched from a safe distance!
And then there was the AC copper-crook caper -- that apparently started with some unscrupulous scrapper thieving the copper coils of a rooftop air conditioner (to turn in for a couple of bucks at the junk yard) -- in a building that housed row after row of dogs, cats and rabbits being held awaiting their "shelter pet" fate. With national coverage of the story, it wasn't long before Trane HVAC donated portable air conditioners for the pets, and now a fundraising campaign is underway to restore the AC units!
For a guy who often brakes for folks in the road only if they are walking a pet, the fact that people rallied makes me feel all tingly inside. [And I can't deny that there is a little voice wondering why we can't seem to have the same kind of response for the down and out and in need humans in this world ...]
CUTE LITTLE DUCKLINGS -- SAVED:
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=8221006
DOGS AND CATS AND RABBITS -- SAVED (by Trane HVAC in Chicago):
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/social/onwisconsin/south-side-animal-shelter_n_889022_95313421.html
LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO DONATE?:
http://www.animalwelfareleague.com/
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