I used to be hooked on The Animal Planet channel. Some of my favorite shows were The Crocodile Hunter and Animal Precinct. Animal Precinct was interesting since it was a show about Animal Control officers in New York rescuing animals. But they didn't have new episodes very often, so I stopped watching it for awhile. Then Animal Planet came out with another show, Animal Cops. I started watching that show too, enjoying seeing the different officers rescuing needy animals. But then that show started showing a lot of repeats, so I stopped watching that too. Soon after, another Animal Cops show came out that took place in Houston. Then Animal Police: Miami, Animal Cops: San Francisco, and the latest is Animal Planet Heroes: Phoenix. Some are better than others, but being busy doing other things most nights, I never really went back much to try to catch any of these shows.

With Kerry in school tonight, I was channel surfing, and happened upon Animal Planet, and Monday seems to be the night when they show a bunch of these. Tonight was Animal Precinct, Animal Police: Miami , then Animal Planet Heroes: Phoenix (which I've never seen.) First on Animal Precinct was a lady who had 77 dogs & puppies. Yes, that's two sevens, 77. They allowed her to keep 4 of them, they took the other 73. What really got me was a story about a dog that had a rubber band put around it's muzzle to keep it from barking. OMG, I actually had tears in my eyes as they were explaining the damage done. Fortunately, they fixed him up and he was given back to his owner. It wasn't her that had put the rubber band around his muzzle, it was her boyfriend, whom she had kicked out by the time they rescued the dog. But why she didn't just take the rubber band off, I'll never understand.

Then on Animal Police: Miami there was a lady and her mother, and they had over 60 cats in their house. But not just any house. This house was filthy! It was stacked 4 feet high with papers and boxes and cat piss, and STUFF! Before they could even begin to find the cats, they had to have the house cleaned out. They had a whole group of people come out with masks and gloves, and they just started bagging stuff up and carting it outside into a huge dumpster. Eventually, the cats had no place to hide, and they were able to round them all up. They left two of them to the two ladies. Some of the cats were too feral and had to be put down. The rest were treated for some minor ailments and I were all adopted out.

Definitely a happy ending for all three stories, but it made for an interesting night.

Oh, and an update on the bats. I have not seen them back again since that first sighting, so I don't know where they went or when they'll be back, if they come back.