One place where we walk, for a week there was a little orange cat collar with a little orange bell laying there. There was a little foot there next to it, and another patch of something with some fur. It looked a little flat. It layed there for a week or so, little foot and little collar and I always told the dogs to leave it. Sometimes I moved the collar back on top of the foot every time it moved away some. Then one day it was all gone.
RIP, little cat that wore that collar. The path will still be there, though.
One place where we walk, for a long time it was a path that just went from the road down to a cliff. We would walk down it to the bluff and walk back up and we would go here almost every day. The path is in a big field where there's a bunch of birds and rabbits and a bunch of buildings over on the side for the UC. Then one day the UC says, the building is starting for all the new stuff, and all you dogs are getting out now will stay out forever after that.
The UC said it a lot more fancy than that, a lot more bullshit about how all the buildings and roads and new bus lines and loads of people coming on with tractors and pavers and then eventually loads of people in cars and buses coming over forever after that to use the buildings is more restoring it to native grasses than the one little path still having some dogs on it. There's always a lot of fancy bullshit.
RIP, whale skeletons field by my house. No more path to walk on. Last open space in my neighborhood. We'll miss you loads and think of you fondly. A lot.
7 comments:
Long Marine Lab is building?
I hate UC. Yes, they are building a whole new section of the university for the biology department there. It's SUPER for them. They are not good neighbors for the rest of us.
Will crap. I thought that property was protected. Don't blame you for hating the UC.
Nooooo. Where you walk is where we walk! With the SafePond that Fable will actually swim in. Do we get to keep the pond?
-Holly
Holly, Antonelli pond across the street isn't part of this land. It belongs to Santa Cruz land trust and it remains open to dogs. This is the long marine lab land that belongs to uc. UC also owns the building adjacent to Antonelli's but luckily the land trust took over the parcel with the pond.
Well, good. Still bad, but good. I knew the pond was a land trust, but I got all paranoid since the more I like a walk-spot, the more it seems to go away. Long Marine+pond is our favorite. Sad to lose 1/2 of our favorite. Now I'll have a soggy poodle with nowhere to go. -H
Make sure that you have emailed your views before May 6 to this email address: Associate Vice Chancellor Risk & Safety Services animalpolicy@ucsc.edu.
All emails sent will be reviewed and taken into consideration. This is probably not going to help. I went to a meeting at uc about it so if you want to know any more, I can give you all the info. I am moving on. We went to the pond today then over to derby park for drying off. Onward. There are jr cops known as student ambassadors out there now with the really crummy job of telling the dog walkers the bad news. I almost took their photos. And then I didn't. They are probably work study students with the shittiest work study job in the world.
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