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Realizing that June 1 has come and gone and
that storm preparation season is here , it is the barking
dogs
that wake up the reality of storm season
every year around this little jungle hut on the west end of St Thomas. A
few weeks ago
just past midnight the thunder boomers
came, re-instilled total fear into our dogs Audrey and Ella (dumpster found
coconut retrievers) and put
Max the shepard on full alert. Audrey
and Ella born and raised in the islands have experienced loud blustery storms
for years , always forgetting
from quiet season to rumbling season that
those thunder boomers are BACK.
Again last Tuesday all day long the thunder
was huge and the crackling seemed so close. The dogs literally
ran out on the deck when the storm
was at a distance and tried to
bark it away. As the temperature dropped, their brave barking
turned to drooling whimpering as they
hid in the kitchen, below the desk or any
other place the human feet are. Audrey, Ella and Max are the lucky
pups. They hear the neighbor
dogs out in the tempest crying so loud at
the end of their chains, in the rain. Understanding abit about the science
of weather saves modern humans;
listening to the sound of confused fearful
whining and barking of those unprotected dogs is a sound hard to describe.
Reality has kicked in looking at today's
stormcarib map and we are in for some more rumbling, rain and panic among our
canine friends. If you can't
secure your dog in a dry safe place so fear
doesn't drive him to wander, if you think that it is decent to leave any animal
on a chain without shelter
in a storm then I wonder again, why have
dogs? They are the most social of our domesticated animals and just need to be
with us , with each other,
or safe and
secure.
Let us know how it is for you down island
with this wave coming thru, and excuse my rant about dogs. The cats
seem to be oblivious to all of it whether
inside or out in the rain. Maybe the
lucky dogs will come back as cats in the their next life!
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