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Georgie: A Rescue Story

The other day I got an update on a foster dog -- a Cavalier King Charles spaniel named Georgie who lived with us two years ago, from just prior to Halloween to just before Christmas.

Georgie had some kind of skin condition and arrived hairless, itchy, raw, reddened and miserable. He was about as sad as sad can look. 

Another volunteer, Huntly, picked Georgie up in Vermont and a mutual friend delivered him as far as a highway exit in New Hampshire. The first time I saw him, he was in a dog crate in the back of a van at a rest area, growling and snarling, his skinny body pressed as far back as he could get against the crate's back wall, and looking for all the world more like a gremlin than a Cavalier. (More "Lilo and Stitch" than "Lady and the Tramp.") Prior to the pickup, he had been living by himself in an unheated trailer, with a litter box and a bag of cheap kibble. Details were fuzzy, but there was something about a divorce, and an owner who had moved to a place that didn't allow dogs, and a hope that he might have been adopted to someone the owner knew. But who wanted a hairless, irritable dog with some kind of undiagnosed, ugly skin condition?

Georgie was with us for a few months. Turns out he was allergic to pretty much everything; had raging ear infections; and needed regular dermatology visits, medicated baths every other day, and deep ear cleanings. I kept him sequestered from our other dogs until he was stable, which meant he and I spent a lot of one-on-one time... unlike any other foster dog I ever had. Boy was he high-maintenance! But such a sweet and yet wickedly impish personality. I fell for him hard. 

The nature of the foster relationship is temporary, of course. I couldn't keep Georgie, and anyway, even if I wanted to, we weren't the right kind of family. We already had three Cavaliers, and Georgie needed a home where he could be the only dog; he wasn't particularly good at sharing. 

So eventually, the day came when, stronger and fuzzier, he went home to his new life. If I tried to describe how much I missed him, you'd think I was describing how I had lost a lung. How much can you miss a creature who squirms at the endless ear cleaning? Who struggles in the bath? Who growls at your son? Who nips at your other dogs? Who hops over gates? Who hoards his food? How much can you miss a tense, skittish creature whose naked tail quickens like the reverberations of a violin string when he sees you? How much can you miss something that presses his lean body so tightly against your leg that you can feel his heart keeping time with your own?

It's surprising how much, really.

In her note, Georgie's new Mom calls him fabulous. Playful. And as furry as a Collie. "I cannot thank you enough!" she writes. She includes a picture of Georgie as he is today, poised expectantly above a tennis ball. There's something about his eyes that's familiar. Otherwise, I barely recognize him. Which thrills me.

Georgie is one of those rescue miracle stories; the kind of from-the-brink of disaster stories you hear sometimes at a party or whatever, about animals or people or about other kinds of reformations. And you think, "Really? Could that really be true?" 

But it is true. It really happens that way sometimes. Which not only fills my heart but also gives me a kind of faith in humanity, and reminds me of the capacity of love. As goofy as that might sound.  

Read more about Georgie (and other rescues) here.

The Buck Stops Here. Right Now. With This Guy.

This sign was perched on the front desk of the service department at the car dealership where I spent the better part of my morning. (Free wifi! Comfy chairs! Free Starbucks! Free OJ! A basket of snacks!)

It was a blissful two hours; I got a lot of uninterrupted work time while my car was being serviced. (I don't think I've ever been able to use the word "blissful" in the same sentence as "car servicing." How about you?)

The sign is set beside the red phone, which connects directly to the owner's cell phone. (I asked.)

In any other context, this kind of initiative at a car dealership would come off as cheesy and a little hollow: The red phone that screams "URGENT," the leering CEO. But because the customer experience in the service department was so pleasant, instead, it came off entirely authentic and believable.

It's great to see a company focus on creating an exceptional experience for small-ticket existing customers, even those who drive seven-year-old cars (and aren't in the market for another), rather than focusing on the new, or the next sale.

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A Hunting Trick Worth Trying

Hunters can do all the preseason scouting they wish. They can have tree stands conveniently placed, and ground blinds in strategic locations, and make every effort to be scent-free while staying downwind from the hunting location.

Still, there are times when bucks just will not cooperate. We can have a nice buck patterned, arrive early because we know the buck is as spooky as a house cat in a dog kennel, and still our best-laid plans can and do go awry.

Bucks can be very unpredictable

Sometimes the bucks won't show up because of something we've done, and there are other occasions when someone else spooks them unwittingly, but the bottom line is that bucks seldom play by our rules.

They play by their own game plan, and until we learn how to crawl inside a buck's head and determine what makes him tick, and do this or that, we must live with the prospects of being foiled again and again by an animal that doesn't show up as we often predict he will. That's another reason why they call this hunting.

Last year I had a nice buck that had been seen using a specific runway through heavy cover. One of the elevated stands was at the far end of the trail and back in thick cover, and my thought was to sit up on him at that location. I eased into the area, climbed up into the stand, and kicked back to relax.

I knew when he moved, and knew where he moved, and he was as regular as a glass of prune juice. Except for that night ...

He took the trail least travelled

He avoided the area like it was the last place on earth he wanted to be. I saw several does and a couple of small bucks, and some fawns, but the big rascal failed to make an appointment. He took a totally different trail out of the beddinh cover.

The next evening, we went through the same procedure, and again he didn't show up. The rut wasn't on yet, but this flaky buck was breaking his habits. I tried a third night, with equally unsuccessful results, and decided to hunt elsewhere.

My new spot produced the sighting of a nice buck, much too far out of range, but that animal captivated my attention for several days before another hunter took him from a different stand. Where to go now?

My decision seemed easy. I planned to go back and try for the other buck. A friend had seen him moving about in that area, and I slipped into the stand noiselessly. The wind was perfect, and again he didn't show up.

My mind usually tells me the buck is bedded down in the immediate area, and has spotted me going to the stand or leaving it. This, I feel, was the answer but how to solve the problem. This could be a test of wills, mine versus his.

A sneaky way in for a hunter

Other stands were hunted for several days, and I finally decided to have a friend drop me off with his truck. My thought was the buck was probably being spooked by me walking in, so why not let the pickup truck do the spooking.

The friend drove me to the stand, and I was up the ladder like a fox squirrel heading for the tree-tops. He puttered around a little bit until I was in the stand and out of sight, and then he slowly drove off down a nearby two-track and the woods settled down to silence.

As the afternoon turned into early evening there were several does, fawns and two or three small bucks moving through. The big buck still hadn't showed up, and I was beginning to think he had moved out of the area and taken up temporary residence elsewhere.

Thirty minutes before sundown, the slanting muted rays of late sunlight were seen glinting off polished white antlers. The deer stood up, moved forward, and stepped into the tiny clearing near the stand. He looked around, especially where the truck had come from and the direction it had gone, and seemed satisfied it was gone.

The animal had been bedded down just 40 yards from the stand. The buck, completely fooled by my arrival by truck, strode confidently out in front of me.

The bow eased back to full draw, and the buck lowered his head to sniff the scent of one of the does, and my arrow slid in behind the shoulder. The buck humped up slightly, kicked his legs back, and ran off.

It was a good hit, I knew, and moments later I walked up to the fallen buck. During the field dressing, I found the heart with a two-blade wound through the center of it. Being hit in the heart often makes deer hump up and kick, and the animals die quickly.

Hunters must recognize that big bucks often bed down near a stand where they can watch hunters come and go. Having another person drop them off, and stay there with the motor running until the hunter is out of sight in the stand, can pay big dividends.

It's a trick I've since used for many years, and this tactic particularly holds true when hunters use bait after snow covers the ground. Bucks and does often bed near the food source, and being dropped off and picked up with a motorized vehicle can work wonders for hunters.

Deer can't count the number of people in a truck or on a four-wheeler. Sometimes it gives hunters an edge and sometimes it doesn't. Nothing works all the time on whitetails, and that is why whitetail deer are such fascinating animals to hunt.

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Wow! So, it turns out Lisa Mitchell is awesome! She does the song from the Surf advert I wanted to find out who did the song for!

Grammar rules are made to be broken. Selectively breaking the rules wakes up the brain and draws extra attention to your message.

Malcolm Gladwell, in The Tipping Point, says that this "ungrammatical and somehow provocative use of 'like' instead of 'as' created a minor sensation" in 1954 and implies that the phrase itself was responsible for vaulting the brand to second place in the U.S. market. Winston overtook Pall Mall cigarettes as the #1 cigarette in the United States in 1966, while the advertising campaign continued to make an impression on the mass media.

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