Herds of cats and dogs

Spent some of  Thursday afternoon trying to show the overabundance of cats and dogs at the York County SPCA. Maybe after visiting the vet and getting some rather bad news there about Sport, our 15-year cat, the SPCA is the last place I should have visited.

 Dozens of felines-- blonde, gray, black, white, calico and all combinations-- grabbed my attention as they posed and played with me, in hopes I'd take them home. There were some Maine coons, a fold (at least partly), long and short hair domestics. None were as beautiful as my Isabella, but few are.

 And dogs?  Good grief, there were dogs. Lots of pit bulls.  A couple of rottweilers, Australian shepherds, yappy but cute black Pomeranians, an American bulldog. And a shiba inu, at left, a cute medium-sized dog with a cute face and color of a fox--  and thick coat. Some of these dogs were expensive AKC dogs (the pit bulls were being sold for $100, all others for more than $500 at Lancaster Puppies), but they're a real bargain at the SPCA.