Kate's Point of View

Wednesday fun was the same as it is every Wednesday – not very creative but so dependable! I went for my weekly volunteer gig at the animal rescue and was surrounded by tons of cats who needed love and attention. I’ve been volunteering there since 2005 and even though it can be hard work, I find it totally gratifying. In fact, on weeks when I have to skip the rescue I just feel bummed.

Last week we were a little short-handed so it was a later night than usual. But I still found time to love on a few cats! Here are a few of the cuties, all available for adoption!

I love animals and I love making them look pretty foolish and dressing them up.

But one thing that’s never occurred to me? Giving an animal dreadlocks. Turns out, it can be done.

Wonder Boy and I spotted these pooches on a recent weekend getaway and I was floored. These are not fake dreadlocks, people! The owner actually helps his dogs grow dreadlocks.

The past few days I’ve heard clucking. I live in a pretty urban environment and only a half mile or so from downtown. I should not hear clucking. Then Wonder Boy mentions that there is a dead chicken in the street. I’ve read a lot about urban farming and find it a pretty fascinating concept. I thought that maybe one of my neighbors had started their own chicken farm and a chicken had gotten loose?

Then Wonder Boy comes up to me yesterday and says, “Have you seen the rooster?” Um, excuse me?!

Sure enough. Two doors down I see a rooster walking around the backyard. And through some Facebook chatter with neighbors, we learn that our next door neighbor Bertha Knuckles has caught a loose chicken, named it Margaret and it’s living in her shed and yard!

I decided to do the only logical thing. I grabbed some bird seed and a cat carrier and went to catch the rooster. Fail. A little while later I joined some other people in some more successful rooster wrangling adventures.

And most importantly, a little while later I got to meet Margaret.

Photo by Bertha Knuckles

Do not let this face fool you.

So I got sent this by someone named Candice. And I don’t understand who she is or why exactly she sent this to me, but it is pretty funny.