M has disappeared off to the smoke again for an overnight stay. Once more I have been left to fend for those of us left behind. I do usually manage to create an edible meal in the evening, however, tonight with only the three of us here, I decided to have a left overs special ladled onto a fresh baked spud. The baked spud was great, a beautiful crisp outside skin. The toppings were however not so good. Alice decided she wanted the curry, some chicken korma (I thought). It had no meat in it and appart from that it had separated on defrosting and seemed to have a mind of its own when it came to remixing. Harriette wanted the Beef goulash. As this was the largest of the bags, no wonder H wanted that bag, I thought I'd go halvses with her. Number one it wasn't hot despite three minutes in the microwave so I gave it another blat for two further mins. I poured the contents over the spuds and the bits of potato in the goulash crumbled and had a texture similar to sand on mash. It was revolting. The girls somewhat surprisingly didn't complain and ate it all up. Ben dived into the cats dirt tray during the meal and I must say his disgusting habits are begining to annoy me. I have beaten him so that he is black all over and it has made no difference. He is actually black anyway, and before someone contacts the SPCA, I haven't really beaten him! These things cann get out of hand.
It has rained almost non stop today and I have not really achieved anything today. To tell the truth, I feel quite wiped out for some unknown reason. I had a particularly slow day at work, only picking up one stray and doing some admin before pushing off to the other side of the district to Te Aroha for a meeting with my immediate boss. These meetings are usually monthly and we discuss the stats we have returned and anything which affects us, legislation, bylaws etc and we can bring up our concerns or requirements. Since last July, we have impounded between the two of us some 390 dogs and have had to put down about 230 of these. It is a shame in most cases but there is no way all the dogs in the world can be kept. Today we even discussed the Council subsidising the neutering of dogs as an incentive to owners to stop the unwanted breeding which is a huge problem in some areas. I don't think it got very far as things go within Council but it may be worth revisiting. I can feel a report coming on! I'd best stop whilst I'm ahead. Strange but true, the figures for my area are not too dissimilar for the rest of the district. I only work 4 hours a day, my colleague works 8 hours plus covers the after hours call-outs. Some of my figures will be after hours dogs impounded after I've gone off, but not many. It leads me to believe that I'm not doing such a bad job after all. I sometimes get the feeling that I am up against a rising wall of non conformist owners and straying dogs, obviously, this is not the case, and that in a strange way makes me feel a bit better about it.
Well, I'm not having very coherant thoughts now which translates into me babbling away like an in patient of a home for the mentally incoherant. I digress, good-night!
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