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7/2 '15
32 hours left in Jarnsaxa Rising's Indiegogo campaign. It's been a learning experience. I still haven't figured out the difference between annoying and persuasive. Today I did a lot of editing, and I have more work to do tonight.
Jill was persuasive. She got Rodney Anonymous and Kyle Cassidy to re-tweet links to the campaign. We also got 32 new likes on the podcast's Facebook page in one day.
I have more work to do, so I need to get off the internet and do some more work before I get tired. But, here is some other news.
This exists, and has a program at a prison in Philadelphia:
There is a possibility that we might, maybe, possibly, be able to adopt a dog through this organization. Vince fell in love with one, and applied. We won't know if we get this dog or not until mid-August.
An NBC news piece about the program said, "According to Philadelphia prison stats, 41 percent of the inmates released in 2013 will be rearrested in Philadelphia county after one year. Compare that to just 14 percent of inmates from the canine program."
If our application is accepted, we do some visits, to see if we're a good fit. Because Vince is an employee of the District Attorney's office, the city covers our adoption fee (as an incentive to adopt). All I can say right now is that this means we might have have a big, young, trained dog by fall.
Ok. back to work.
OK, so now for the hard question: Was the dog V's idea? If so, I'll pay you $15 if you write up a little contract that makes V promise to walk Macy /n/ times, miles, or hours per week. You don't want Macy to be a source of under-the-surface resentment.
My brother's wife wanted a dog, Jeff said no because they're all grisly over-scheduled. She and the kids begged, and Jeff said "Who is gonna walk the dog and train the dog? " and everyone swore they would, and nobody did. So they have a spastic, undisciplined dog and Jeff really resents it. Yes it's cute and stuff, but he's the one taking care of it and he didn't want it. Jeff's wife thought the magic solution would be to send the dog away to obedience school, but nobody kept the training up at home to ensure those habits stayed habits, and they're back to a spastic dog again.
I'm not trying to be a Debbie Downer, especially because I know there is no love more pure and perfect than DERG LOVE. (Eeeeeeeeee!!).
I think another thing that will make things easier is that we're becoming friendly with our dog-people neighbors, who walk their dog morning and evening, and their dog socializes in the local dog circle. so, that may make things easier for both of us.