Today a flyer was left about a rescue pets event, featuring a fundraiser and cookout contest. I can't put it up here, because it had too much info in it. So I'll do my best to tell you about it.
We don't go to these. We already have 3 rescue dogs, and if we went we'd want to bring them all home. Mrs. Grumpy and I are softies for dogs.
But it sure caught my eye.
It could have said: "Adopt-a-pet: fundraiser and barbecue" or "Fundraiser for Homeless Pets", or "Local Homeless Pet Shelter Event"
But no.
It said, in big letters, "HOMELESS PET BARBECUE NIGHT".
In other notes, it listed the participants at the bottom, including: Local Greyhound Rescue, St. Bernard Friends, Humane Society, etc. At the bottom of the list was "Local Rat Rescue League".
28 comments:
how can they tell if the rat is local? are they profiling?
do they taste like chicken?
What's wrong with "Homeless Pet Barbecue Night"?...
I went to a similar event last week - the spit-roasted hamster was to die for!
;)
(Just kidding - I love animals
....and sarcastic neurologists)
Just looking at my great danes (one's a rescue) and I'm thinking we could have a quite a large bbq, though they may be a bit sinewy.
Having eaten a lot of rat in rural Vietnam I can say it is rather tasty. Though I did learn that you want to eat country rat not city rat, to much human poo content in a city rat. If you do decide to attend I'd be asking the question.
Apparently, there is a rescue league for my ex boyfriend! Did not know he'd moved :P
I have a miniature dachshund, and when he misbehaves I threaten to go get the mustard. I think from now on I'll just point at the hibachi.
6:53- cuye! que sabrosa!
they should also feature Sauteed Road Kill along with Bar-B-Qued Homeless Pets.
We have three rescue labs, went to the store to buy them food and came home with a poodle mix who was on clearance ( I couldn't leave him there!) Now I buy the dog food at the grocery store.
Check out www.adoptalab.org, we've adopted four times from them.
Rescuedog
LOL! I needed that after today!!
I like mine medium rare.
Nevermind the sentence structure, doesn't it seem kind of wrong to build a fundraiser to save one set of animals around GRILLING ANOTHER?
Om nom nom nom.
That is hilariously bad.
Maybe the person who made the poster was one of your patients. ;)
(Specifically the one who wanted the results for the test they never had).
Barbecued hot dogs?
I have always had pet rats going back to when I was 13 or 14 (I'm 19 now) and I've heard of several rat-rescues, even the local humane society has rats for adoption.
Sounds strange, but they seem to actually place them!
Take Care!
My husband has forbidden me to go to these type of events, as I start whining worse than our kids that we NEED another dog...
Rescue mom of a lab-mix and a pure-bred chow-chow.
lol ... surely someone read it before printing ...
and as for a 'Local Rat Rescue League' ... scary, just downright scary!
I hear greyhound is delicious.
I once saw a headline in a Syracuse, New York newspaper that read: MURDER SUSPECT IN JAIL, VICTIM SAYS.
Whew! Really? The victim of the murderer said that? Wow. People can be brought back to life!
My first thought on the rats was Rat Terrier (a breed of dog). (If you Google "Local Rat Rescue League", the first hit comes back as "American Rat Terrier Rescue".)
Perhaps not the best language, but certainly understandable.
Mine's scrawny, but we can add her to the menu.
I think some readers need to learn about the subtleties of sarcasm....
Somebody needs to come rescue my lab rats, because after Frances' comment, I have no idea how I'm going to do my experiments. There's a reason I'm a vegetarian and also not a vet. Cruelty toward animals breaks my heart.
How the hell am I going to make it through my master's degree?! :-(
I guess if I was starving to death I would eat a dog. But not a collie, because I don't like the taste of collie.
I suppose they will serve rack of lab.
Maybe the barbecue was being run by PETA.
One name I do not expect to see is National Politician Rescue League. Although is there is a politician barbecue, imagine what a phenomenal fund raiser that would be.
You might have to have 2 separate barbecues. One for each of the 2 major crime families.
Signs have popped up all over our town lately declaring a "HUGE KIDS SALE" in big red letters. Those poor kids.
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