Another Odd Business

Younger daughter, who lives in LA and who has introduced me to odd little-known businesses, told me about a van she saw driving through the city. On the side is a sign saying Post-Rapture Pet Care.

No joke. I looked on Google and discovered that there are post-rapture pet care businesses all over. I even found one in the UK.

I am not a rapture scholar, and so I don't know much about it, but what I can figure out from reading some of the advertising is that when the rapture happens, all the good people, the true believers, will go off someplace (the sky?) and the pets they own will be left behind.

To the rescue come the atheists. A number of the ads promise that the staff are all atheists, and since they will be left behind too, they will take care of the pets of those who have been whisked away.

Sort of brings to mind what has been mistakenly attributed to P.T. Barnum: "There's a sucker born every minute, ..."

I do wonder if they actually have clients.

[photo: Google Images]

Silliness

This is the state of the suburban neighborhood-at least the state of MY suburban neighborhood. Our list serve sent out a warning yesterday about a "predatory owl." This owl has so far taken out one dog and two cats. This must be a very large owl! A huge owl!! A very hungry owl!!! Who knew such a thing was possible?

The powers-that-be in the neighborhood are trying to find a professional "owl catcher" to humanely trap the owl and relocate him. Who knew such a "professional" existed? But then, who knew such an owl existed?

For whatever reason, the neighbors choose to believe that an owl, not the coyotes that inhabit this area, has killed off their pets. Friends who live about three miles away found their mangled cat, and knew that one of the two coyotes seen regularly in their neighborhood had gotten it. The evening following the discovery of their cat's remains, they saw one of the coyotes standing next to the mailbox at the end of their driveway. They assumed he was asking, "What's for afters?"

The wildlife was here before we were, and I kind of enjoy seeing different creatures outside; we've had raccoons and opossums on our deck. Deer are all around, although unfortunately, we more often see them dead along the roads.

I would love to be listening to the phone call asking for someone to come and remove the owl. "You want what???" But the thought that crosses my mind is that these same people who think that the owl is carrying off pets are the same people who get to vote. ..