CORRECTION CASEY IS A FEMALE

I need to correct my last entry, Casey is a female dog and yet I refer to her as a he.  I do that a lot with small animals, referring to them as he or she almost interchangeably. 

CASEY THE MINIATURE SHIH TZU, PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE!

I just want to apologize to the City of Overland Park for the criminal career of my eight pound Shih Tzu, Casey.  He is blind and afraid of thunder, so every time it rains he panics and despite efforts to contine him he repeatedly has escaped into the front yard and wandered about the neighborhood in the rain.

Casey has escaped so many time he is becoming the most expensive dog I have ever had.  


Of course some of the neighbors have tried to prevent Casey's arrest by the local fuzz and yet others seem to have made certain that anytime they see a little dog on the street that the call animal control to check out my block and to see if Casey, the terror of my block, is ravaging the neighborhood again.


Of course everyone has an opinion about Casey and why he went bad.  All I know is that I am happy to save him from the authorities who of course saved us from him.
Hopefully my new scheme of imprisoning Casey will be successful.  He is a climber you know.

I do want to say that we have a political adversary or two on the block and they have systematically targeted us for code violations and this dog cannot go into the front yard without a major mobilization by Overland Park because these charming conservative crackers make sure they come out.


Of course it is under the "rat system" where the complainant is anonymous.  Will Overland Park survive this "crime wave"?  I don't know
but I know Casey has survived a dozen rabies shots and he is an eight pound weakling.


My cat, who weighs about twenty pounds thinks this is all most amusing. 

CHICKENS IN OVERLAND PARK, KANSAS

Overland Park needs to get with the twenty-first century and part of that catching up involves promoting local and, yes, suburban food production.

Chickens could be raised just as they are in many states so that people can have humanely produced and better eggs than they can get from the gigantic and cruel chicken factory farms, farms that may need to be abolished for a host of reasons.

I was cheered to see that a David Crupper on 95th and Lowell is making an effort to make humane chicken coups part and parcel of suburban living.

Of course the chickens could be another excuse for Overland Park charging fees and fines. Hopefully we get chickens without a lot of expensive and unnecessary bureaucratic chicken shit.