I’m starting to wonder if this is only there to create fodder for this.

Anyone who discovered this blog before January 10 or found it through a Google search relating to that dreadful incident in Tennessee has already had a glimpse of Daisy. For the rest of you, here’s a pic of Daisy alone:

Daisy is a great dog, but she can’t get along with one of our other dogs, so we have little choice but to give one of them up. Daisy gets along fine with most dogs, but she’s not particularly good around cats. She’s absolutely wonderful with people, though, so the ideal home is one where she is the only pet. But enough of my talking, Daisy can speak for herself:

Hi, my name is Daisy. My guardian angels found me in a park near LAX at death’s door with a terrible stomach infection, probably from eating trash. They nursed me back to health and I have now gained back my weight and strength and have experienced life in a loving home. I am not too crazy about cats, but I get along with just about every dog I meet (except one of the ones my rescuers have, which is why they can’t keep me). I love kids, repairmen, and would probably kiss a burglar so you’ll just have to count on me for affection not protection of your property while you are away. I am a female about 18 months old and am part yellow lab, part pit-bull, and probably part something else. I am also part teddy bear because I love to snuggle and part kangaroo because I can jump over a 5 foot fence. But, don’t worry, if I get out, I will kiss the neighbors then wait for you on the front steps. Be careful not to leave your car window open as you pull into your driveway because I can’t wait to see you, so I might jump in the window and into your lap! P.S. My rescuers have put wire around their fence and it works fine to curtail my adventures in the neighborhood. I know how to sit and I know the word “treat.” My rescuers have been living through my chewing phase and have lost a few shoes, but I am more grown up now and they think they got the worst of it. Just keep the place stocked with toys and chewies for me and I will most likely stay out of trouble. If you adopt me, you will see that with this blond, you really will have more fun. Please call so they can bring me to your house to visit or even stay overnight to see if we are a good match for each other. I can’t wait to meet you because I already love you.

So there you have it. If you think you might want Daisy, please drop me a line. We are in Orange County, California. If you live anywhere in Southern California (Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego or Ventura County), we’ll gladly deliver her to you. If you live anywhere else in the southwest, we’ll work with you. If you live in Canada, Chicago, England, the East Coast, or somewhere else, then it’s about time you visited Southern California, isn’t it?

UPDATE: To all you greedy associates from the Bay Area, we’ll be up your way the weekend of 2/22. If anyone is interested, we’ll be glad to bring Daisy up for that trip, unless of course she has been placed by then.

Ronald Dixon, a former Navy man with an unblemished record, faces a potential prison sentence for shooting a career burglar who entered his toddler’s room. Because the shooting was unjustified? Hell, no – no one in his right mind would argue that. No, depending on one’s perspective, Dixon faces prison time either for (1) possessing a firearm he had obtained legally when he resided in the United States, or (2) using that firearm to make sure that a career burglar went down instead of his innocent toddler, who the State of New York apparently thinks should have been allowed to die. If his case isn’t the perfect one to give teeth to the Second Amendment, then I don’t know what is.

While I can hardly fault the NRA for the existence of New York’s idiotic gun laws, I do have to fault them just a wee bit for District Attorney Charles Hynes’s decision to prosecute him under them. I’d have at least another $42.00 in my wallet right now if only I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard an NRA spokesman argue, in essence, that “we don’t need any more stupid, fascist, unworkable gun laws, we just need more rigorous enforcement of the stupid, fascist, unworkable gun laws that we already have!” So, in this case, they seem to have gotten what they wished for. It’s too bad that Mr. Dixon himself has to deal with something he never wished for, though.

Link via Rachel Lucas.