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If you want a bit of nonsense for frittering away your time, I have just the thing: national-day calendars, one of which is at the link I just gave you. You can spend hours down that rabbit hole. Days that achieved popularity over the years, such as Read Across America Day and National Pi Day, which extrapolates 3.14159 … to pizza and crusted desserts, are documented in detail. Scores of national days National Do a Grouch a Favor Day, National Clean Up Your Desk Day (I’m nonobservant), National Whipped Cream Day, National Crab-Stuffed Flounder Day all go from random to ridiculous.
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Sadly, a lot of the dog dudes and dudettes in shelters are large ones. At last count, which was three days ago, 25 of the 43 dogs staying in our shelter at Long Beach Animal Care Services (LBACS) were big ones. That’s more than half of all the various sizes.
So, what’s the deal? Are more large dogs than smaller ones turned over to shelters?
“I think little dogs get relinquished as much as big dogs,” shelter volunteer Dee Glick said.
Several reasons, most of them misguided, exist for the comparatively large number of comparatively large dogs in shelters. Some people, when considering adoption, may not have the strength to control a large dog if they tug on the leash during the banal attraction of a squirrel. That makes sense, but just seeing “little and cute” and not being able to see the “big, clunky and absolutely adorable” doesn’t, to a lot of us. Neither do apartment and condo restrictions of how much a dog can weigh. People weighing more th