I had to put my judge robe on this week to decide on a crucial case.
There was once a thriving zoo in Puerto Rico, but because of budget cuts and a disastrous hurricane, the zoo fell into disrepair, and the animals became neglected. There was no choice but to close the zoo.
But what was to become of the animals? They couldn't be set free; some of them were predators. They began to search for a zoo to take the soon-to-be homeless inhabitants.
After months of calls, the government found a wildlife sanctuary in Colorado that agreed to take the animals.
But that was only the beginning of the problems. Darnell, an elephant in the sanctuary, objected to the refugees being allowed into his neighborhood.
He stood before the other animals and made his case: "When Puerto Rico sends its animals, they're not sending their best. They're sending animals that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us. They're bringing lice. They're bringing disease. They're predators. And some, I assume, are good animals."
At first animals, he thought that Darnell was stroking his trunk. Still, other animals sided with him and filed suit in animal court to block the Puerto Rican animals from immigrating to Colorado. All human testimony occurred in their quickly forgotten dreams; at least, I hoped they didn't remember.
Recalling a dream where a Yorkie judged an elephant's desire to block refugee giraffes from entering the country would make someone swear off late-night cold pizza.
The defendant went first: He explained that the animals' lives were in danger in Puerto Rico, and their best hope for survival was being transferred to Colorado. A ruling against them would be a death sentence.
Next, it was Darnell's turn. The elephant impressively stood on his back legs and spoke clearly. "The sanctuary is for open cages. There is a caravan of zoo animals invading the southern border. We need to tell them the refuge is full. "
"It is not a caravan," the representative for the sanctuary said, "it is an ark. The owner is named Noah, and two of each animal are on the boat. They will perish if they are not accepted in Colorado and return to Puerto Rico."
I didn't want to be responsible for animals perishing and quickly sided with the refugees.
Darnell is trying to overturn my decision and is running for President of the Sanctuary. It is scary to think he could get elected, especially when facing several charges, including paying off a gibbon who peed on his trunk for sexual gratification.
He couldn't possibly be elected.
Could he?
Featuring the exploits of Ruby Rose, Foley Monster's Tails From Rainbow Bridge, and co-starring Angels Pocket and River Song. We always try to leave you between a laugh and a tear
Friday, March 31, 2023
The Case of the Puerto Rican Zoo Immigrants (A Foley Monster Small Tale from Rainbow Bridge_
Thursday, March 30, 2023
Poetry Thursday
Once again, Angel Sammys and Teddys Pawetaton have provided us with a photo for Poetry Thursday.
They said it was called a television
It was my dad who made the decision
To cast aside the radio
And to the future, we will go
He bought it at Cunnigham’s Appliances
With money, he receives from his Uncle Sid
It must have weighed a ton
Carrying it, the station wagon could barely run
My mom cleared a spot in the living room
Moving a table that was a family heirloom
My Dad somehow carried it inside
When he put it down, he made such a noise I thought he had died
He plugged it in by the light
My sister and I jockeyed for room and began to fight
My dad turned it one, and the picture flipped
In doing so, his pants did whip
Finally, we got a clear picture
After saying words not found in the holy scripture
We sat transfixed for five minutes, maybe ten
Before we wandered off to read in the den
I could not help but yawn
And observe there were lots of stations by nothing on
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Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Beat This Caption
"What do you mean? The boys and I stayed in the park late. No, there weren't any bitches there. Why are you so suspicious?
Monday, March 27, 2023
Monday Question
How do you keep your teeth clean?
Do you have greenies, get your tooth brushed, chew bones, or go al natural?
Ruby's answer: I love to chew bones, but I also get my teeth brushed, but only after I eat my poop.
I think that has more to to with my plans for future face licking than my teeth health.
Sunday, March 26, 2023
The Ruby Rose Report: I am A Street Walker
This week, I went outside for the first time; it got cold and dark. Attempts were made during the winter to get me out of the house, but I wanted nothing to do with the cold. I am pee pad trained, and unless they start occurring in nature, I am doing my business inside like my parents.
It was a lovely day, over sixty degrees, with the sun shining. Last year, when my parents tried to walk me, I would start proudly down the road, and as soon as my house disappeared, I pulled to get back.
On this day, first, I had to put on my walking harness. That thing must have shrunk in the drawer over the winter because it didn't come anywhere near fitting I thought I would need a trip to the tailor before venturing outside, but River's big purple harness fit me perfectly. I was ready to face the world.
As we had in the fall, we began in the backyard. I walked down the back property line, sniffing what could be inhaled. We returned to the house, and I explored the rear garden and enjoyed a piece of mulch, even though I was told to leave it. No dog can do that in the spring.
Then we walked along the side lawn, and I sniffed the garden there; after that, we crossed the driveway to the front garden, where I picked up the scent of the breeze.
I followed the breeze, to my dad's surprise, and walked down the street. I didn't show any compunction to turn around, and I pulled my dad down the end of the road and around the corner.
I was walking to the row of rocks along the route. When River interviewed me for the critical position of the family dog, she told me the stones were the local post office where dogs and many other animals leave messages. I had not come near them in nine months but thought I would.
Sadly, on this day, I wouldn't either because the site maintenance man, who doesn't think he has to follow the rules and breaks more than he maintains, had left his dog outside. This was nothing new. It once charged at River, and she would never go down the street; it lived on again. The dog began barking, and I lost the scent and decided home would be the better place to be.
I may not have completed my journey, but I started it and have a whole summer to complete it and read the accumulated pee male.
I am a Big Girl Street Walker.
Friday, March 24, 2023
Friday Fill-Ins
I am participating in the Friday Fill-Ins this week. My fill-in is in purple. This blog hop is hosted by 15andmeowing for the sentences to fill in OR if you have already done that and want to link up!
Thursday, March 23, 2023
Poetry Thursday
Once again, Angel Sammys and Teddys Pawetaton have provided us with a photo for Poetry Thursday
My mom was a weightlifting champion
Maybe that is why daddy couldn’t sleep with an ambien
The men at the club all made fun
That she was the stronger one
Old dad, he did live in fear
That in his sleep, mom would attack from the rear
Once, a robber entered the house
And Daddy told Mommy to be quieter than a mouse
Instead, she stood and confronted the villain
And beat him until his face was vermilion
When the police came, they treated her like a queen
While he was left in the room to clean
He decided to get in shape and joined a gym
But she had to save him the first time he tried to swim
He complained to his friend that he had become emasculated
And his friends worried their marriage was ill fated
But he knew he could not leave
It was something he could not conceive
As much as everyone thought it was funny
Without her, they would beat him up for his lunch money
Das told me she was so strong when I was in her womb
When she gave birth, she shot me across the room
Old the kids laughed that their dad could beat up mine
And I told them my mom could snap their spine
I want you to know my mom was a real lady
Even when she played offensive line for Tom Brady
To me she was just my mom
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Beat This Caption
Monday, March 20, 2023
Monday Question
Sunday, March 19, 2023
The Ruby Rose Report: The Pill
After a busy and stressful week last Sunday, a small bout of selective diarrhea began.
It was selective because I would go all day without a poop (or, as they are called in my house, “doubles” because they are number “twos). I would produce a semi-soft stool (also the name of the punk Griffon punk band I began as a pup in Florida) and then get out of my parent’s bed three or four times a night to
Produce little poop
Puddles. When my tank was empty, I began the process again the following day.
My parents tried the chicken and rice diet, which quickly became the chicken diet because Griffons aren’t vegans. Still, the pattern held until Thursday they called the vet.
Pre-COVID vets instead on seeing an animal before prescribing medicine, but in the disease’s aftermath, they ain’t got no time for patients. The vet instructed my parents to come to the office, sit outside, text them the space number, and they would bring the medicine out. They are so reluctant to allow anyone inside I am pretty convinced they are running a cock fighting ring in the waiting area.
My parents returned home with the magic pills to stop my midnight pooping. They opened the bottle, took one out, and realized there was one problem. They looked at my face, which said, to paraphrase Will Smith, “keep your M effing pill out of my M effing mouth.
My parents’ first effort at giving me the drug was the old “wrap it in chicken” trick, and I took the meat and spat out the pill. They tried it wrapped in cheese with similar results.
Frustrated, they forcefully opened my mouth, put the tablet in, firmly closed my mouth, put my head back, and waited for gravity to do its business. But, Griffons are not subject to the laws of physics, and when they let go, I spit the pill out.
Next, Mommy forced my mouth open and put a small bone in it to keep it open, then Daddy fired a slingshot, sending the pill into my mouth but off the bone, knocking it over, and the pill out of my mouth.
Then they put the pill into a syringe full of water and forced the stream into my mouth, and I welcomed the water and expelled the drug.
Things broke down after that. They tried, but instead of putting the pill in me, they would put me around the tablet, which they balanced on the tip of a sword; they opened my mouth and lowered me on it until it was halfway into my body, then pulled me out. They were happy to see the pill gone until I spit it out.
With one end not working, they did a quick Google search about what would happen if we put the pill up my butt. Thankfully, Mr. Google told them they could be imprisoned for such an offense, and they searched for a new way.
They put it in butter to slide it down my throat, and I slid it back up. They covered it in a meaty broth, which I licked off and left the pill untouched. They hid it in my pumpkin; I ate it and left the tablet. They offered me a thousand dollars, and I held out for $10,000.
Exasperated, they threw the pill on the ground. I watched it skid across the floor, then sniffed it. “Just leave it,” my Mom, who had given up, said.
If three is one surefire way to force a dog to take a pill, it is to them they can’t have it. I made sure they weren’t looking, then licked up the medicine.
It wasn’t too bad.
After that, they crushed it into my food, which they should have done in the first place.
The pill cured me of diarrhea, but the stress of giving it to me caused my parents to suffer from dysentery. Luckily there is a pill for that.
Friday, March 17, 2023
Baby, Rosie, and Angel Chester are Foley's Pups of the Week
I was taking a nighttime stroll through Blogville when I passed the newspaper office and saw Chester fast asleep, curled up next to his typewriter.
When I opened the door, a bell rang, which caused Chester to wake up and begin barking orders to his staff, who had gone home hours earlier.
“It’s just me,” I said, “I am sorry to startle you.”
“A newsman is never startled,” he said. “And I wasn’t sleeping; I was visiting my puppy sisters, Baby and Rosie. They are improving, but I don’t know if they can run the Daily Bone without my help.
The Daily Bone was the newspaper Chester founded while living in the mortal world when he accepted an offer to cast off his tired, old, and sick body to begin a Bridge edition of the paper. Chester was tasked with starting the paper and finding replacements to keep the mortal version going.
Chester interviewed dozens of dogs but could not find his candidate to be his mom’s heart dog and a good reporter. Then he was struck by a Thunderbolt. He would find two dogs, and it made sense. No single dog could replace Chester.
He dreams visited Rosie, the best reporting candidate, and Baby, the most likely to be a heart dog, and they agreed to team up as pack members.
The next step was to convince his mom to get two dogs to help rebuild her heart. She agreed with Chester; allowing her was more than a one-dog endeavor. Chester told his mom where she could find his picks for their pack, and soon the home of one dog became two.
The duo is doing a great job with their mom’s heart. Being with them gives her a joy she thought she had lost when Chester went to the Bridge.
Turning them into ace reporters has been difficult given the low attention span of puppies and that it has snowed and the pair of sisters are delighted romping
In the snow, then, they fall asleep when they are done.
“They are excellent weather reporters, but they are so busy being puppies they miss what is happening in their backyard.”
I reminded Chester about taking care of their mom.
It was the pups’ first priority, and it took him a few years to become the hardened reporter he is now.
Chester sighed and said I was right. He needed to be patient, and there was a literal eternity for them to improve.
Then we walked outside and looked in the window as minions ran the press. We got a fresh copy of the paper and began to read it.
I love the Bridge edition, where the only news is good news.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Poetry Thursday
Once again, Angel Sammys and Teddys Pawetaton have provided us with a photo for Poetry Thursday.
Kathy climbed very high.
To do so, you must be spry
The crowd yelled, “dive, dive!
We know you will come out of the pool alive.”
Kathy looked down from high in the air
Ane realized she could see everywhere
“Hey Jim,” she yelled from the board
And to Jim’s house, she pointed towards
“I can see your house from here
You better get home. Your teenage son is drinking your beer.”
“Dive, dive,” the crowd demanded
But she was looking at Rupert’s store, which was short-handed
“You better get to your shop
The kids are stealing your soda pop.”
“Dive, dive” the crowd yelled
But she was too concerned with what smelled
“Giles, I can see your house on fire
You better get home before it turns dire.”
“Dive, dive,” the dwindling crowd chanted
But she saw something Larry took for granted
“Your wife is making you a cuckold
Your next-door neighbor has here in a close hold.”
“Dive, dive,” the few remaining cried
But she told Ned his son turned his suit in tye-dye
One by one, they all departed
Which made Kathy feel joy and wholehearted
She climbed down from her high perch
There was no need to diving since they left her in the lurch
The next day she told everyone they had gone
That she had dove as pretty as a swan
She was sorry no one saw it
And then she climbed down lickety-split
After collecting her pay for the dive
She moved on to the next town to connive
To charge people a hundred dollars to see
She dives into the pool like a descending bee
And tell them all the reasons they must leave
And then the next day told she dived, which they believed
Kathy was thankful the folks were so dim
Truth be told, she couldn’t even swim
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Beat This Caption
After six months in jail for eating a mouse, Max realized his Pomeranian lawyer was, in fact, an idiot
Monday, March 13, 2023
Monday Question
Sunday, March 12, 2023
The Ruby Rose Report: A Trip to Home Depot
Unlike an animal or someone in their early 20s at Coachella, I do my bathroom business inside the house and have my room to do my business.
Before I moved there, my bathroom had a washing machine and Dryer. I didn’t mind until the Dryer started sounding like a squirrel got his tail caught in the Tumbler.
Having replaced two phones, a refrigerator, and an iPad in the last month, I figured my parents were smart enough not to call a Repairman.
But they did, and like the refrigerator, they paid over $100 for the appliance medical examiner to call the time of death.
It was on a Monday when my parents chose to buy a new dryer. I had a vet appointment the same day to get a rabies shot. I did not know why a dog who didn’t go outside and spent most of her time lying down needed one, but as always with our parents, it’s better to go along to get along.
I did not like it when a strange woman picked me up and brought me inside the vet’s office without my parents. I got weighed and gained a couple of pounds; then I got stabbed before being reunited with my parents, frantically worrying about my two minutes 57 seconds of absence.
I thought we’d go home, but we headed in the opposite direction. I was riding on mommy’s lap, enjoying the sights, when we pulled into the parking lot of the biggest building I had ever seen. It was called the Home Depot.
Daddy carried me into the large warehouse; people were doing everything and going everywhere all at once. Not enough people said how cute I was—heartless Buffoons.
We walked around, trying to find a Dryer. Every time they found one, they realized it was a washer. Why don’t they make these things different colors? My parents finally found the least expensive unit, or as the bird flying around said” “cheap
They hunted down someone who could help them. It is easier to find Bigfoot in the appliance section of Home Depot than a worker.
They began to do the paperwork for the Dryer. My parents presented their Home Depot card as payment, and the woman said the credit limit had been exceeded. That is when I tired from the entire experience and told her the card was maxed out because they had just bought a refrigerator there.
Does Home Depot penalize its Customer for being too loya1? Then I had to talk to someone from their credit department. Thanks to my best baby boss’ voice, the transaction occurred without further issues.
On Friday, the Dryer arrived. I gave it a thorough sniff test. It passed.
Mommy filled it with wet wash. After a half hour, I went into the bathroom to pee just as our clothes were dried. It made a most obnoxious buzzing sound, which caused me to jump from the pee pads across the hall onto the toilet bowl, where I finished peeing.
It just goes to show you no matter what it is that, Griffon pays.
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