This Week at the Saratoga Animal Shelter

• Gale force hurricane winds do the pool in. All of the poles came out and when I got home it was a bit decimated.

• Tuesday in the middle of the night I mistook Clark for Randi and used him as a pillow causing Clark to growl and me to wonder what he was growling at when he was snuggled nicely at the top of the bed. When I woke up and realized I had been using him as a pillow I got it. Clark doesn't like to be used as a pillow whereas Randi thinks that is great fun.
• Wednesday Pete and Evan came over to help me with the pool. Pete forgot to close the gate firmly and Randi went on the Tour de Quartier at full speed for about 15 minutes before I cornered her in the truck by the access road. Pete and Evan helped me fix the pool, by pretty much fixing the pool and becoming my heroes. They got in the empty pool and Pete patched the holes that the wind had ripped and Evan used his monster shop-vac to suck up all of the dirt. I started to put water in my newly amazing pool, but I found another rip, so I'm going to have to patch that up. Also on Wednesday, Mob Boss Earl attacked Puppy Clark. When I let Clark in he had a rip on his nose and his entire neck area was covered in slobber layered with sand. Apparently Earl gnawed on Clark for a bit. Other than the initial moment of being traumatized he's fine.
• Thursday EDub attacked PDub in the pool. She kept biting at PDub's neck-so violently that PDub's neck was being forced back and forth and I had to open the door and yell "Knock it off!" at which point EDub flew out of the pool and PDub did some kind of weird fall onto her chest. I don't know what's wrong with that duck.
  
• Big day tomorrow here because Nick Viselli is going to be back out with his wonder kids to transform the "beautiful wild flower fields" into a decent backyard. Additionally, the Pack will be wore out when I get home. (Aside-when Nick called to tell me he'd be out he told me that over break he got his truck stuck in the mud and stuck in the snow in Utah and spent about five hours digging out his truck. "And of course, everyone looks to me and says 'how long do you think it will take you to hike out and get help?'" I told Nick that's what he gets for being super fit.)