Sickening Abuse

Today has been warm  - so far, it's up to 94 degrees and the humidity is 10%.  I've had the window and patio door wide open since I arose this morning (and I've been surprised that Lovey and Nedi are respecting the screen door).  Kathy Sabin just said that Denver is expecting a high of 99 tomorrow - and that the late afternoon cloud cover should keep the temp. below 100.  Firefighters and the US Forest Service hope to have the Maxwell Fire 60 to 70% contained this evening (it hasn't been very windy today, thank goodness).  Mocha spent yesterday evening on the sofa with me, watching Russell Crowe's take on Robin Hood.   Lovey came in and laid down on my other side, and it took her 30 minutes to realize that Mocha had dared to come out of hiding... then I had to break up a cat fight, which was mostly yowls and hisses.
Rosie and Remy are doing well - I walked them early this morning, finishing at 9:30, so we wouldn't have to contend with the heat.  Rosie's itching has slowed, so apparently she had a mite infestation.  Remy's hip was a little ouchy this morning, so we walked slowly and took several rest breaks.  ...  I was flabbergasted when the Chandler family returned home Sunday evening and called to tell me that MeyToch was a female baby.  I told Blair that I was 99.999% sure that MeyToch was a boy - unless the kid was a hermaphrodite.  I spoke with her this morning, and the family is still getting used to the fact that MeyToch is, indeed, a little boy.  They had thought he was a doe kid - but he is definitely a billy kid! (And they had really wanted a girl...)
I'd be happy to take the law into my own hands in the following two cases:  A man was arrested at one of the local King Soopers for beating and punching his dog.  A witness called 911; the man and his girlfriend are under arrest, and the dog is being evaluated at the Humane Society.  The couple left their pit bull, named Hercules, in their van this morning (at 9:30, when police received the call, it was already 88 degrees outside) and went into the store to shop.  One of the large side windows is broken out of the van.  Hercules jumped out through the missing/open window, and followed his people into the grocery store.  The man dragged him out of the store by the scruff of his neck, opened the van's side door, threw the dog inside (this is according to the witness) yelping, and proceeded to beat the dog with his fists, while Hercules trembled, whined, and turned belly-up.  The man was arrested for animal abuse; his girlfriend, who told the police that one of them "probably should have stayed outside with the dog", was arrested on an out-standing warrant for trafficking in stolen items.  The dog, according to the Humane Society, does not appear to have a stable personality - going from being friendly to attack mode without any warning.  - Poor, poor Hercules! -  The owners made  him that way!! ...  The other case is a young man, in Denver, who stabbed his American Bulldog puppy because the man got angry "because the dog bit him."  Police and animal care agents could find nothing on the owner that looked like a bite mark.  The man lost his temper, grabbed a carving knife, and slashed and stabbed the puppy more than 5 times.  Then he got mad because the dog was bleeding on his carpet, so he tossed it out the window.  The puppy was taken, when found by a neighbor, to the closest emergency vet, and police were called.  The puppy underwent 3 hours of emergency surgery, and was then placed in an oxygen tent, as one of his lungs had been collapsed by the knife.  The vets say that the puppy's prognosis is "good."  -  Let me have both of these men.  I'll strip them, smear them with honey, and stake them out on ant beds in the broiling sun.  And even that seems too tame to me!