<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Animal rescue @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Animal rescue) </description><copyright>Copyright 2009 grerp.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 17:42:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Animal rescue @ grerp.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>Long/Busy week, and it&apos;s only Wednesday</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/longbusy_week_and_its_only_wednesday.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/longbusy_week_and_its_only_wednesday.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 01:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=longbusy%5Fweek%5Fand%5Fits%5Fonly%5Fwednesday</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;ve been blog incommunicado this week, and here&#39;s some reasons why:The STL&#39;s.&nbsp; They always kill at least two days&#39; worth of free time for me. Veronica Mars, Season 3 on DVD.&nbsp; Got this Saturday during an unplanned trip to Ta]]></description><category>veronica mars</category><category>strays</category><category>russian adoption</category></item><item><title>There has to be a special place in Hell for...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/there_has_to_be_a_special_place_in_hell_for.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/there_has_to_be_a_special_place_in_hell_for.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=there%5Fhas%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fa%5Fspecial%5Fplace%5Fin%5Fhell%5Ffor</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...people who abuse animals and children.&nbsp; Today I found out what the deal with Bandit, the American Staffordshire Terrier who has been at the Humane Society since last May.&nbsp; It turns out that his &quot;rough start&quot; was really and trul]]></description><category>humane society</category><category>animal cruelty</category><category>dogs</category></item><item><title>Okay, I lied</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/okay_i_lied.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/okay_i_lied.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 02:57:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=okay%5Fi%5Flied</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I&#39;m not going to be able to finish the Jennifer Crusie author profile this week.&nbsp; I need to read at least one more of hers to nail down themes.&nbsp; I will be posting one for Rachel Gibson, however, very soon.For my penance, I&#39;m uploadi]]></description></item><item><title>Paraplegic squirrel and other depressing bits</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/paraplegic_squirrel_and_other_depressing_bits.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/paraplegic_squirrel_and_other_depressing_bits.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 02:08:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=paraplegic%5Fsquirrel%5Fand%5Fother%5Fdepressing%5Fbits</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[On my walk with Rosie this morning I found a paraplegic squirrel.&nbsp; Depressed the crap out of me.&nbsp; He was hauling his body around by his front feet alone.&nbsp; I looked him over and other than a fleck of blood by his eye, he looked fine, no]]></description></item><item><title>Baby chipmunks</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/baby_chipmunks.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/baby_chipmunks.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=baby%5Fchipmunks</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There were baby chipmunks in our backyard today.&nbsp; Rosie got one of them and did some damage.&nbsp; &nbsp; Max pointed its poor little mangled form out to me, and I went into animal rescue mode.&nbsp;&nbsp; At first I thought he was probably too]]></description></item><item><title>RIP Cornelius</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/rip_cornelius.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/rip_cornelius.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 03 Nov 2006 02:37:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rip%5Fcornelius</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tonight we were walking, and I saw a possum dead in the road about Corny&#39;s size.&nbsp; So now I&#39;m feeling sad.&nbsp; And, frankly, pissed that someone barreled down Comstock St. and killed him.&nbsp; This is what I get for becoming too attach]]></description></item><item><title>Possum dead in the road</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/possum_dead_in_the_road.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/possum_dead_in_the_road.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:49:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=possum%5Fdead%5Fin%5Fthe%5Froad</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[While Max, Rosie and I were out taking our daily constitutional this afternoon, I saw that a possum had been hit by a car on our road about a 4 minute walk from our house.&nbsp; My heart seized.&nbsp; I forced myself to look to see if it was Corny.&n]]></description></item><item><title>Rosie was mixin&apos; it up...</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/rosie_was_mixin_it_up.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/rosie_was_mixin_it_up.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:03:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rosie%5Fwas%5Fmixin%5Fit%5Fup</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[...with Cornelius.  Just a few minutes ago I asked J. to let Rosie out for the night.  A moment later he comes and tells me he thinks our possum friend is toast.  So I rush out, get the little guy in a box and bring him in to look him over.]]></description></item><item><title>Cornelius has left the building</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/cornelius_has_left_the_building.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/cornelius_has_left_the_building.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 29 Aug 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=cornelius%5Fhas%5Fleft%5Fthe%5Fbuilding</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[After 3 days of overnighting it in our garage, my little possum friend moved on.  I don't think he appreciated my trying to befriend him.  The info I read on possums said that they were solitary, and I guess that is the case...]]></description></item><item><title>New possum home: our garage</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/new_possum_home_our_garage.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/new_possum_home_our_garage.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 24 Aug 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=new%5Fpossum%5Fhome%5Four%5Fgarage</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[We now have a little friend occupying the garage.  The other day I went to pull out the mulch bags as our daylillies are now sparse enough to mulch, and - small gasp - there was the little opossum I'd discovered earlier this summer in our co]]></description></item><item><title>Lost dog...found</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/lost_dogfound.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/lost_dogfound.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 20 Jul 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=lost%5Fdogfound</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday, about 5:30 PM, I found this little miniature schnauzer girl across the (very busy) street from my house. She was drinking water from a puddle and cars were slowing down so as not to hit her. I walked up to her and she let me pick her up. S]]></description></item><item><title>Make Way for Ducklings</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/make_way_for_ducklings.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/make_way_for_ducklings.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=make%5Fway%5Ffor%5Fducklings</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Our neighbor found some ducklings in his yard today. The mother had gone off in a panic with three of her little guys and left these behind. Max found them very intriguing.]]></description></item><item><title>Another animal found</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/another_animal_found.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/another_animal_found.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 28 Aug 2005 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=another%5Fanimal%5Ffound</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There must be something about me that attracts - or is attracted to - wounded animals. Earlier this summer it was a small baby bird that I found in the street, removed with nest to my tree and hope made it out of there alive (I saw it hopping around]]></description></item><item><title>Chipmunk</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/chipmunk.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/chipmunk.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=chipmunk</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Yesterday Rosie and I were out enjoying the (for once!) nice summer weather. I noticed she was sniffing something and I leaned down to peer at it. It was a very young chipmunk, and I thought it was dead until I saw the teeny tiny breaths that it was]]></description></item><item><title>Problems with a neighbor</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/problems_with_a_neighbor.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/problems_with_a_neighbor.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2004 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=problems%5Fwith%5Fa%5Fneighbor</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The man who lives two doors down from us is quite old, very likely in his eighties (he told us he built the house and it was built the same year as ours - 1947). Up until a couple of years ago, he seemed very together. His lawn was always mowed, he s]]></description></item><item><title>Nice day off</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/nice_day_off.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/nice_day_off.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nice%5Fday%5Foff</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I didn&#39;t work today as I have to work Saturday :(It was a nice sunny day and very relaxing.  I woke up early after going to be early last night out of exhaustion.  I read A Girl&#39;s Best Friend by Elizabeth Young. She has a consistently nice Ch]]></description></item><item><title>Raccoon</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/raccoon.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/raccoon.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=raccoon</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This morning I took the Rosemeister for a walk, and right there on our front lawn was a wounded raccoon. It was breathing, and there wasn't anything obviously wrong with it, but it didn't move when Rosie lunged for it, so clearly something ba]]></description></item><item><title>Raccoon still there</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://grerp.blog-city.com/raccoon_still_there.htm</guid><link>http://grerp.blog-city.com/raccoon_still_there.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2003 04:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://grerp.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=raccoon%5Fstill%5Fthere</comments><dc:creator>AAR Rachel</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I got home from work expecting that the raccoon would be either dead or long gone. But it wasn't. It was still laying there...breathing. My neighbor had called the Blandford Nature Center, but they hadn't returned her call. We sat together an]]></description></item></channel></rss>