Dogs of Hell by CuteArtStyleKitty – deviantart.com
We are in Dog Hell. Our neighbors down the hill are selling their place and not taking their dogs. They bought the house a couple years ago but have never lived in it. They just used it to grow cannabis indoors and got caught when they set their power pole on fire by overloading the transformer and blowing the top clean off.
They didn’t abate their plants when instructed, so now they have one of those nifty $30,000 liens on the property. This story is very different from the Byrons (whose hearing is this coming Tuesday in the Tehama County Supes Chambers at 1:30pm). There are photos of the multiple grows, lots of plants, clearly a commercial operation.
They got the dogs to “guard” the property, but kept them in a pen where they couldn’t protect anything. Duh. Also, they’re the sweetest dogs and are very welcoming to strangers. Now the people are gone and trying to sell. We have taken possession of the abandoned puppehs and are fostering them until they are adopted.
Lucky – misnamed up until now.
Lucky, the female, is a brindle German Shepherd cross. When we took her out of the pen she had a huge laceration on her leg from who knows when, so off to the vet she went for treatment and spaying. Tested heartworm negative and is now on preventive meds. She is a little over 2 years old and gives the best kisses.
Toby – handsome boy
Toby, the male, is a handsome border collie cross and will be neutered and heartworm tested asap. He’s about 2 years old and a big cuddler. He is around 50ish pounds and she is just over 70. On Monday they will be getting a full round of shots. Both very playful, but have no training. They are learning to walk on leashes and love being able to run in our fenced pasture.
Why is this Dog Hell? Well, Lucky and Toby are the sworn enemies of our pack of three. When we walk our dogs twice a day in the pasture, they all bark at each other and when Lucky and Toby have escaped the pen there have been skirmishes along the border. I mean through our fence. Ugly.
So, we can’t just throw open the gates and invite them into the pack. Mr. Standish is busy fixing up a place for them on our property where the two teams can be separated until we can find the orphans good homes. There will be much barking and a precarious peace at best.
If you have room in your heart and home for one or both of these deserving sweethearts, please email me at lizmerry58@gmail.com or text (530) 212-0037. We don’t think they have any experience with cats, so they are probably chasers, but we’re not sure. Our cats are staying far away from them when they come over because they’re smart like that.
In other Manton news, the Antelope Elementary School District has made a counteroffer to the $245,000 bid by non-profit Manton Parks to purchase the Manton School back for our community.
Manton School – photo Red Bluff Daily News
Manton Museum – photo by Barry Swackhammer – hmdb.org
CA Dept. of Water Resources
The graph shows decreasing groundwater levels, of course. I compared it to the Corning Sub Basin Sustainability Plan, which shows Minimum Thresholds for groundwater levels which, when exceeded, are supposed to trigger some sort of action. This well – 13C00_M – has numerous perforated intervals measuring water in the different layers. Some of those layers have receded beyond their MTs for over 3 years and continue to decrease. I only compared one well against the Plan. How many others should have triggered action by our GSA? Is this intentional negligence or just laziness? Somehow they found the time to create a tax scheme to create a well registry that should already exist. That will kick the can down the road for another three years.
The GC is violating the rules of the Sustainability Plan they created themselves. Just how far are they willing to go to protect their own profits at the expense of domestic well users who have sand coming out of their faucets? How long are we going to ask for a moratorium on new ag well drilling before it actually happens? How much longer will our land hold any value?
I am optimistic that when the new board is seated in January, they will dissolve the current GC and create a new one heavily weighted with domestic users. They will need new bylaws, too. If only they could make it rain…
