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B6 The Wenatchee WorldThursday, August 6, 2015
BY DENYS BUCKSTEN
Chicago Tribune
WAUKEGAN, Ill. — More than 200 pet owners gathered on a recent Saturday, many well before the 11 a.m. start, for a pit bull health clinic at Waukegan Animal Control, free to city residents. People and pets stood beneath a blazing sun in high humidity with the patience and enthu-siasm of fans lining up for Chicago Blackhawks playo� tickets.
The clinic, sponsored by Bryan & Amanda Bickell Foundation, uses the hockey star’s fame and resources to help pit bulls, widely regarded as the most abused and discarded domestic pet in the U.S.
The clinic administered vaccines; implanted micro-chips in the dogs; gave out high-quality leashes; collars, harnesses, food, chew toys and training information. Clinic workers also set up 138 appointments for free spaying or neutering at area veter-inary clinics.
By all accounts, few if any pet owners left early as the harsh conditions took a toll on those in line.
Waukegan Animal Control Director Susan Elliot said the clinic was a success, but she and Bickell Foundation director Alicia Boemi agreed
that Waukegan will need a follow-up clinic in late August, early September, starting earlier in the day to avoid a repeat of the weather stress.
“People were standing out in front of our gate at 8:30,” said Elliot. “What was most shocking to me was that there was not one human-aggressive dog. I was in awe how well behaved the pit bulls were in a situation where it was hot and a million other dogs around them.”
“Any dog we felt was getting too hot, we stuck them in an air-conditioned vehicle, and we kept watering down the dogs,” Elliot added.
Elliot was especially pleased with the high number of owners signed up to get their dogs fi xed, to prevent unwanted puppies from a dog breed facing public perception as being vicious, dangerous animals.
Dog owner Douglas Nordlane and his two female pit bulls at one point
moved into the air-condi-tioned animal control o� ce. Nordlane seemed typical of many attendees, with his beautiful, happy and well-groomed dogs, but not enough resources for spaying, shots and other costly upkeep.
“I have two daughters in (college),” said Nordlane, explaining why the free services meant so much. Nordlane hadn’t planned on adopting pit bulls, he said, but took action to save one being abandoned not too long ago, leading to his a� ection for the breed.
Volunteers from Chicago Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Center, Players for Pits, 3R Dog Training, Fetching Tails, Two Bostons, Bait Free, and Wet Nose verifi ed that owners were Waukegan residents, provided services, rushed bowls and bottles of water to the lines of waiting people and pets, moved at-risk attendees into air-conditioned vehicles or
the animal control building and kept the lines moving.
The clinic was the latest evidence of a Waukegan coalition — Mayor Wayne Motley, city o� cials, Elliot’s animal control sta� and assorted humane nonprofi ts — to set a standard for care of animals in the city of over 89,000.
“I give all the credit for the success of this program to Susan Elliot, who coordinated this event with the Brian Bickell Foundation,” said Motley. “There’s no question we’re now really getting on the owners of animals, not just pit bulls, to register their animals, vaccinate them, maintain their animals, take
them o� chains and keep their pets in a good environment.
“We don’t want animals chained in the yard. I think it’s cruel, regardless of the weather,” he said.
Motley, a veteran Waukegan police o� cer who retired as sergeant, has long held that Waukegan’s animal control should be a no-kill facility, a de facto policy he achieved with the help of Elliot, Police Chief Wayne Walles and supporting nonprofi ts, such as WAGS, Waukegan Animals Getting Saved.
Veterinarian Dr. Jack MacKenzie, owner of Chicago Veterinary Emergency and Specialty Center, manned the
front lines at the clinic, along with three of his clinic’s techs, who drove up from Chicago to volunteer their time.
“I was very impressed today with the shape these (Waukegan pit bulls) were in,” he said. “I looked at at least half of these dogs and not a single one was in bad shape at all. They all looked very healthy. It was obvious these dogs are family and (their owners) take care of them.”
Retired Waukegan police o� cer Todd Schmitz, a dog owner who supports area shelters and specializes in saving injured reptiles in the wild, has seen his share of mistreated pit bulls and other animals.
Owners of much-maligned dog breed unite at free pit bull clinic
Denys Bucksten/Chicago Tribune
Lake Zurich Veterinarian Jack MacKenzie meets a young patient waiting in line at a free pit bull health clinic hosted by the Bryan & Amanda Bickell Foundation on July 25 at Waukegan Animal Control in Waukegan, Ill.
breed unite at free pit bull clinicPuppy love“We don’t want animals chained in the yard. I think it’s cruel, regardless of the weather.”WAYNE MOTLEYMayor of Waukegan, Illinois
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Standards Link: Life Science: Animals progress through life cycles of birth, growth, development and reproduction.
After a dragonfly egg hatches, a tiny, wingless creature called a nymph wriggles out. The dragonfly nymph breathes with __________ located at the rear of its abdomen.
The nymph is a _________ predator that eats mosquito larvae, worms, tadpoles and even small _______. It hides in the mud or weeds and waits for supper to wander by. When a _________ morsel comes into view, the nymph shoots out a large lower lip with lightning speed and pulls the food into its mouth.
This _________ lower lip is one of the things that has earned dragonfly nymphs the name “pond monster.” The lip is made of two hinged pieces that fold up under its face. The lip is so large, it partly covers the face and is sometimes called a _______. When it shoots out, the lip can be half as long as the nymph’s entire body.
Standards Link: Spelling: Spell grade-approriate
words correctly.
On one page of the newspaper find and circle the letters that
spell each of the following words:
nymphdragonflypredatorlarvae
Connect the letters that spell each word with a different color
marker or crayon. Color in the spaces in your dragonfly designs and share
with a friend!
ragonflies have been around since before the dinosaurs! In fact, dragonflies were flying across the landscape about one hundred million years before dinosaurs
walked the earth. And, they were BIG bugs. Prehistoric dragonfly wings measured nearly three feet across! Scientists claim these were the largest insects that the world has ever seen.
Dragonflies are still some of the world’s largest flying insects. They have wingspans measuring 1 to 5 inches. There are more than 4,000 kinds or species.
Many are colored like jewels. Their shiny colored bodies and wings reflect the sunlight, making them a delight to watch in flight.
Dragonflies knew about fast food long before humans did. While flying, the dragonfly positions its legs and the bristly spines growing on the legs to form a basket scoop. It collects mosquitoes and other bugs in this bristly basket and then munches its catch, all while still airborne!— The dragonfly’s approach to dinner is like picking up and wolfing down an order of “bugs in a basket” to go!
Dragonflies are famous for their flying skills. They can change direction in an instant, hover like helicopters in mid-air, zoom along at 35 miles per hour and dart up, down and even backward.
Standards Link: Life Science: Students know that organisms have distinct structures that serve specific functions in survival.
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Finish This StoryOnce upon a time there was a beautiful
dragonfly … Finish this story.
Standards Link: Reading Comprehension: Read age-appropriate text in a variety of genres.
hen a dragonfly lands on her toothbrush, Eliza and her Aunt Doris decide to take it to a nearby pond. There they find an “awful green creature” about the size of a paperclip. What will it become?
Unscramble the title of this book. Then, check it out at
your library this summer!
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Find the words in the puzzle, then in this week’s Kid Scoop
stories and activities.
Standards Link: Letter sequencing. Recognized identical words. Skim and scan reading. Recall spelling patterns.
Look through the newspaper for pictures of people and animals in different stages of life. Cut out these pictures to show the life cycle of each. Draw pictures or find images on the Internet to depict any life stages you can’t find in the newspaper.
Life Cycles
Standards Link: Life Science: Animals progress through life cycles. Complete the grid by using all the letters in the word DRAGON in each vertical and horizontal row. Each letter should only be used once in each row. Some spaces have been filled in for you.
It is hard to know where to
begin to looked into a
dragonfly’s eyes. Each one are a
compound eye made up of over
20,000 tiny lenses.
The six-sided lenses are
arranged in a curves so that
each lens focuses in a diffrent
direction.
Because dragonflies are hunters,
they need keen vision. Their
compound eyes give them the
ability to see around, above and
belowe their bodies. They can
also spot prey at a distince.
Compound eyes are better at
detecting mooving objects than
still ones. This works well for
dragonflies since they hunt by
catching flying insekts.
Their eyes are the biggest
feature on their heads.
A dragonfly’s eyes neerly meet
at the top of the head, looking a
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Look Into My Eyes
Are you an eagle-eyed reader? Read the articles below and correct the eight spelling and grammar errors you find. The first one is done for you.
Standards Link: Editing: Edit work for correct spelling and usage.
