thepawandfeatherplan

  A Chair Gives a Sense of Ownership.  -And the Residence of the Chair Determines the Level of Importance of that Sense of Ownership.  Here in 33139, South Beach of Miami , Florida , that 'sense of ownership' is of utmost importance.  This likely has something to do with the high volume of renters- more than 60% of South Beach residents rent (most people live in studios or one bedroom apartments here) per google.com generative AI per most recent stats, varied, verifiable sources . With SoBe's (a nickname for South Beach) lush , tropical foliage of Octopus 🐙 and Seagrape Trees , courtesy year-round flowering by: Ruellia , Beautyberry , Sand Coneflower 🌻 , Coral Honeysuckle , Chinese Hibiscus (and more), this is no less than a 2.5-mile-radius - paradise .   Just a few of South Beach's gorgeous, year-round flowering plants     The sunsets are breathtaking.  The weather is oftentimes perfect... as in you wouldn't change it by even a tenth o...

  Yuri was a happy, fun-loving, pot-smoking, young Brazilian man living the beach life in SoBe, Miami, when we met.      A happy-go-lucky type, even when luck wasn't much on his side (which was pretty  often), Yuri was also a dog-lover.  Yuri P.     He was my friend.  We ran with some of the same crowd of Brasileiros on Miami Beach, and he was just a great person.  I was working at the shelter then.  And he was open to having a dog.  Back then, if you were 'open to having a dog,' and I knew you... you were targeted, or soon-to-be-targeted as a potential adopter for a sweet, innocent death-row-dog.  Reason being: circa 2010 Miami Dade was still euthanizing for time/space ( this means lack of time/space in shelter talk ), and pet euthanasia was a daily reality in the shelter then.     And as much as I tried to keep from going to URI (upper respiratory infection), a long, double-sided row of kennels housing our dogs...