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[squareeyes]

carolei – see post #3 here:

https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/cat-toenail-trim

As an update to my post #4 above, Muttley’s no longer shaves cats. They’ll still bathe them but no fur-cuts. So this year my Himalayan got to keep his fur and I get to comb out his mats (poor guy!).

[WSB]

Thanks for the tip, folks. Saw this thread late yesterday and immediately started trying to track down the new owner – on our third trip, we caught him there this afternoon:

https://westseattleblog.com/?p=118801

[johnnyblegs]

I had a fantastic meal there as well. Jacob is very talented. That’s why it was so sad to hear the restaurant is for sale.

https://westseattleblog.com/2012/07/west-seattle-restaurants-blackboard-bistro-for-sale

[furryfaces]

West Seattle Nursery Manager, Marcia, says, ‘Please join us for complimentary beer and hot dogs to celebrate the beginning of our Annual Fall Sale. We’ll take donations throughout the day and match them for the Furry Faces Foundation. This wonderful organization facilitates the adoption of stray cats and dogs into loving homes throughout the community and helps folks who are financially restricted with their pets.’

Where: West Seattle Nursery

Address: 5275 California Ave SW

Date: Sunday, August 19th

Time: 1 pm – 4 pm

‘We are very flattered to be selected once again as the benefiting, local non profit for this event—thanks West Seattle Nursery’, says Tammy Lyle, Furry Faces VP. She explains, ‘The Beerfest includes both Georgetown Brewing Company’s famous Manny’s and Big Al Brew, plus Hebrew National hot dogs galore. We may even have a few ‘Yellow Submarine Twinkie’s’ up for grabs.

‘It just keeps getting better,’ exclaims Teri Ensley, Furry Faces Leader, ‘Regional Animal Services of King County has confirmed that they will be onsite with adoptable dogs, cats and kittens. Tim Scallon, our official F3 musician, is gracing our senses with his guitar and vocals. Plus, it’s another opportunity for folks to get a new pet ID tag for their dog or cat as we will have our pet engraving machine and all warmed up! Remember, Tag You Pet…It Ain’t Graffiti!

Quite a community event, so we hope to see all of you there!’

For more information, please see:

https://www.facebook.com/events/327653510663048/?context=create

http://www.westseattlenursery.com

http://www.georgetownbeer.com

http://www.bigalbrewing.com

[DBP]

>>You could use any license bureau or private mailbox company if you just had to have paper copy.

OK, so the way things are now, this nice lady comes by my house every day and puts the mail in my mailbox, right outside my door. But with the NEW! IMPROVED! kootchman plan, all I’d have to do to get my mail is get in the car and go a mile down the road to the private ($$$) mailbox company.

Thanks for bright idea, kootch. I promise you we’ll give it all the consideration it deserves.

At this time I also need to remind you that we have a process for submitting suggestions here on the Blog. In the future, please don’t forget to use the official suggestion box.

   

[wsmama3]

Lake Easton State Park tent site for Aug 17 & 18

https://secure.camis.com/WA/LakeEastonStatePark

Site 74

The weekend got crazy busy and I don’t want to rush back to do a triathlon.

$50 (cash – meet in West Seattle) and I’ll change the reservation to your name online and you will get the site reservation.

S’mores, great weather – great location!

[JanS]

https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/dentist-recommendations-in-west-seattle

https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/dentists-who-do-sedation-in-west-seattle

[funkietoo]

Adoptions are going well–last weekend 26 cats and kittens were found forever homes! During the month of July 138 cats and kittens found loving homes!

Let’s keep this phenomenal trend going! Kitty Harbor will be open 12 – 6 pm, both Saturday and Sunday for your meet ‘n’ greet pleasures. Approx. 16 adults and 40 kittens are just waiting to charm you.

Kitty Harbor’s phone # is 935-1919.

Address: 3422 Harbor Ave. SW, West Seattle

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/kittyharbor

Website: http://www.kittyharborseattle.org/

These cats and kittens come from rescue situations. Approximately:

• 1/3 come from King, Pierce and Snohomish Shelters (off of death row)

• 1/3 come from Kitty Harbor’s own rescue work in our local area

• 1/3 come from Eastern Washington where the Kill Rate is 70% – 90%, depending on the area/County.

‘Save nine lives’–adopt a cat!

[miws]

Marcus Pimpleton

Mark Ahlness

Japhy Whalen

Marcia Ingerslev

Randy Harkness

kootch, here is just a drop in the bucket, of Seattle Public Schools, WEA represented Teachers, that according to any combination of Students, Parents, or Colleagues, are outsatnding in their field.

And this is just in West Seattle

Read these stories, and their attached comments. Do your own search here on WSB. Read many more stories on specific Teachers, such as mark Ahlness, and Marcus Pimpleton.

Then come back here and make your blanket insinuation that Public School Teachers suck, are lazy, and are only in the Profession to get a nice, Union Pension.

Hell, try to get in touch with them and tell that to their faces!

Though not all Teachers, or all anything are exceptional. I really believe (I was gonna say “hunch”, but I think you jumped on me recently for having a “hunch”) that most Teachers are closer to being in the exceptional spectrum, than the lazy do-nothing…

Mike

[DrivenInsance]

I am sick of all the traffic revisions/changes to our roads that provide no incentive to carpoolers. Why not have them as HOV/Carpool/Bus lanes? A petition was started to do just that.

Seattle City Council: Turn all Seattle “bus only” lanes into carpool lanes. – Sign the Petition

Please join this campaign: https://www.change.org/petitions/seattle-city-council-turn-all-seattle-bus-only-lanes-into-carpool-lanes?share_id=qXgqkmgPKi&utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

The recent conversion of vehicular lanes on heavily trafficked arterials such as Highway 99, 15th Avenue, and others from standard lanes to bus-only restricted lanes has exacerbated traffic problems, increased congestion along alternative routes, and surely increased idle pollution as a direct result. Changing our city’s bus-only lanes into more flexible bus/carpool/HOV lanes will incentivize drivers to reduce energy consumption and will lighten congestion in high-traffic areas – especially where bus-only lanes receive light use and where Seattle has provided no other incentive for individuals for whom riding a bus is not an option. A strategy whereby our city prioritizes bus ridership may sound appealing when spun as a catalyst for sustainable behavior, but our recent changes ignore the reality of Seattle traffic at the expense of our citizens’ sanity and our local economy. Join us in making your voice heard!

[DrivenInsance]

I am sick of all the traffic revisions/changes to our roads that provide no incentive to carpoolers. Why not have them as HOV/Carpool/Bus lanes? A petition was started to do just that.

Seattle City Council: Turn all Seattle “bus only” lanes into carpool lanes. – Sign the Petition

Please join this campaign: https://www.change.org/petitions/seattle-city-council-turn-all-seattle-bus-only-lanes-into-carpool-lanes?share_id=qXgqkmgPKi&utm_campaign=mailto_link&utm_medium=email&utm_source=share_petition

The recent conversion of vehicular lanes on heavily trafficked arterials such as Highway 99, 15th Avenue, and others from standard lanes to bus-only restricted lanes has exacerbated traffic problems, increased congestion along alternative routes, and surely increased idle pollution as a direct result. Changing our city’s bus-only lanes into more flexible bus/carpool/HOV lanes will incentivize drivers to reduce energy consumption and will lighten congestion in high-traffic areas – especially where bus-only lanes receive light use and where Seattle has provided no other incentive for individuals for whom riding a bus is not an option. A strategy whereby our city prioritizes bus ridership may sound appealing when spun as a catalyst for sustainable behavior, but our recent changes ignore the reality of Seattle traffic at the expense of our citizens’ sanity and our local economy. Join us in making your voice heard!

[JanS]

this might help…and there’s mobile apps…

https://www.sitorsquat.com/

http://www.charmin.com/find-public-restrooms.aspx

type in the zip code, like 98116…map comes up with locations of public bathrooms, some with reviews…

[maplesyrup]

https://westseattleblog.com/forum/topic/heating-duct-cleaning

Found this recommendation on the WSB (Aurora/Edmonds). Had them do the work a few weeks ago. They were prompt, professional and didn’t make a mess. As far as I can tell they did a good job.

I’d call them again.

[WSB]

Singular – oddly reassuring and yet maddening to hear you mention that. State B&O tax hasn’t gotten any more rational. We pay many times what other news organizations do because the state classifies us with advertising agencies and gambling concerns … (And it can only be changed by the Legislature. A legislator tried to help last year. Somehow a newspaper-industry lobbyist got involved and that was the end of that.)

That aside, I just came here to note that we’re still getting new info about the end of the strike. Ongoing archive category:

https://westseattleblog.com/category/waste-management-strike

But the details of the deal, though now ratified, have NOT been reported anywhere publicly so far as I have found, yet.

[furryfaces]

It’s a great weekend to add a furry family member or two! Kitty Harbor will be open 12 – 6 pm, both Saturday and Sunday for your meet ‘n’ greet pleasures. Approx. 17 adults and 60 kittens are just waiting to charm you.

Kitty Harbor’s phone # is 935-1919.

Address: 3422 Harbor Ave. SW, West Seattle

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/#!/kittyharbor

Website: http://www.kittyharborseattle.org/

These cats and kittens come from rescue situations. Approximately:

• 1/3 come from King, Peirce and Snohomish Shelters (off of death row)

• 1/3 come from Kitty Harbor’s own rescue work in our local area

• 1/3 come from Eastern Washington where the Kill Rate is 70% – 90%, depending on the area/County.

Here are some recent examples of how rescued cats and kittens found their way to Kitty Harbor:

1. So far this season, Kitty Harbor has taken in 9 – 10 mothers with litters from people that did not want them any longer OR found the domestic mother in their yard with babies. All mothers stay (generally in foster), with their kittens until they are 8-ish weeks old. Once the moms and kittens are neutered/vaccinated/tested/etc., they are available for adoption through Kitty Harbor.

2. Delyn, Founder of Kitty Harbor, is partnering with a municipal shelter that has a very, very high kill rate of cats and kittens. This shelter has no money or resources. In just 7 weeks she has taken 28 cats and kittens from them that were slated to be killed.

3. There is a store in an Eastern Washington town that has a big cage for people to drop off cats and kittens in. These felines are altogether in this cage; don’t know each other; fight; are often sick. There is a rescue group that pulls as many of the cats and kittens from cage as they can every Sunday. When Kitty Harbor has room, they accept the overflow.

‘Save nine lives’–adopt a cat!

[furryfaces]

Rainier,

You are absolutely spot on. If dogs and cats are clearly, visually identified, it is much easier for the average person to help them find their way home, or just confirm that the cat hanging out on your sunny sidewalk lives two doors down and is not a stray.

The single, most effective pet identification method is a tag on a collar that includes your pet’s name and your current phone number. It is your pet’s first line of defense and a free ride home! If someone finds your pet, they call you and your pet never enters the shelter. If your tagged pet does end up at a shelter, it will be safe and warm until the shelter calls you. Without any identification, (tag, microchip, license), the reunite with owner rate for cats is less than 3% and for dogs it is between 13% – 15%. This means that 98% of lost cats and 85ish% of lost dogs never return home.

Although collars and pet id tags do come off/are sometimes lost, they are still the #1 way lost animals are reunited with their humans. Studies by Ohio State University (Vet School) and other Vet Schools/Organizations reflect:

–75% of cats will keep their collars on

–80% of pet owners believe it is important for pets to wear a collar/id tag, yet only 33% provide their pets with this form of id.

— When used, micro chipped pets have the highest return rate. In a recent 2011 study, it was found that less than 5% of pets are micro chipped. This number is starting to increase as shelters and rescue groups start to microchip their animals prior to adoption.

–#1 problem with microchips is that people don’t keep their contact information updated. If you change your phone number and/or address, please remember to update the microchip registry.

–When indoor only cats accidentally get outside, they usually hunker down because they are terrified and need to be trapped. Sometimes these scared cats are mistaken for feral or as under socialized strays and end up at the shelter/ a rescue group. If they had on a collar with a tag (and micro-chipped as a backup), they would be returned home.

All of the above reasons are why Furry Faces Foundation recently launched our new pet retention program, ‘Tag Your Pet…It Ain’t Graffiti’. We want to increase the likelihood of all lost animal companions being reunited with their people. A generous supporter donated a new IMARC pet tag engraving machine to our group so we are now providing quality, aluminum pet tags for just $5.00 each. Our goal is to make pet id tags very affordable to the average person and to provide a collar and tag at no charge to pets whose people are financially restricted.

https://www.facebook.com/furryfacesfoundation?ref=ts#!/events/461329507220286/

Whether you purchase your pet tag from us, a pet supply store, or online, please consider always having a collar and pet id tag on your pets, even if they are indoor only because indoor animals get out.

Cheers, The F3 Gang

Remember, It’s Hip To Be Snipped

[WSB]

As noted here last week, 99 closures will be in the Sunday-Thursday 9 pm-5 am overnight pattern for most weeks, for the next couple months. With some exceptions. Example, here’s our list for the next eight days:

This week’s road closures: 99/Viaduct, Spokane St. Viaduct, I-90/Blue Angels

Since the Spokane St. Viaduct has a couple overnight partial closures coming up, the 99 closures will skip those nights.

Otherwise, the non-regular 99 closures (like the one tonight) are usually announced a week or so in advance – we had first word of this weekend’s plan on July 19th. The very first place they USUALLY appear is this melding of city/state closures:

http://www.seattle.gov/transportation/constructionlookahead.htm

We watch these things very closely and always strive to publish first word of major closures as soon as we spot them somewhere.

TR

[eyeris2]

Would you like to help a UW student gain data for her fianl project? Follow the link below if the answer is yes!

https://catalyst.uw.edu/webq/survey/eyeris2/174009

[The Velvet Bulldog]

There was also this recent story about City Fruit expanding into WS:

https://westseattleblog.com/2012/07/got-fruit-you-cant-use-city-fruit-expands-harvest-to-west-seattle

[miws]

Linky Thingy to story Jan refers to.

Mike

[datamuse]

I would guess that this is what you saw…

[WSB]

We got actual info from WC KC Sheriff’s Deputy BJ Myers while we were tabling at Jubilee Days – published this in the early afternoon: https://westseattleblog.com/2012/07/why-the-helicopter-was-over-highland-park-white-center-early-today (and a version on White Center Now, too). – TR

[MargL]

Laurie – you should contact Lauren – she’d probably have a good idea of where to start! :-)

https://westseattleblog.com/2012/05/laurens-idea-saving-bees-through-education-but-she-cant-do-it-alone

[WS Person]

Really nice set. Table and 4 chairs with cushions. Could be indoor or outdoor. $175

Please see ad on CL on pictures: https://post.craigslist.org/manage/3149682413

wolfie2748 AT msn dot com

[furryfaces]

Need a new pet tag for your animal companion? Don’t have a pet tag for your animal companion? Then stop by to see us on Saturday! Our quality, aluminum pet id tags are only $5.00 each and we can make them on the spot for you!

We will be at Hotwire Online Coffeehouse before, during and after the Hi-Yu Parade, from 10 am – 2 pm; 4410 California Ave SW; https://www.facebook.com/#!/events/389323067787439/

And at Big Al’s Brewing, from 3 pm – 6 pm, in their courtyard. Children are welcome at Big Al’s. So are dogs. And you can bring your lunch or dinner with you! 9832 14th Ave SW.

https://www.facebook.com/furryfacesfoundation#!/events/332265450195369/

Remember, It’s Hip To Be Snipped!