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....March 18th---Ten Years Ago

Professor to the World . . .

She died. She simply died.

I saw the last pulse vanish out of her arm as the veterinarian's needle extracted her life away.

Her name was Professor.

Her head dropped from my arms 10 years ago today. I am writing to you all between miracles and tears.

On this day I turn a story over to you all, a national story.

Stories by the Sky Full

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Throughout this new year, newspapers, magazines and every horn blowing media mouthpiece will call out, “Introducing Professor Zimbabweeps!”

The story of Professor, a throwaway dog turned international icon for miles upon miles of families worldwide, will thread through the media like the tail of a firecracker.

Story excerpts from New Delhi to Rome, where hands reach across oceans to hold hope together for thousands of animals gunned down by an insidious tormentor disease . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . my stories will be yours.

NEXT: The Ice Cold Examination Table

Please see http://andreajetspencer.blogspot.com/ for a 10 year chronicle of ANDREA AND THE WEIMARANERS and why we need your . . . . . . .

H E L P . . . . ! . . . . ! . . . . !

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Hundreds Twitter to Martha Stewart in Tribute to Her Chow Killed in Propane Explosion

"The lines are jammed . . . I can't get through to her blog," one person said.

Hundreds of fans and animal lovers are deluging The Martha Blog in tribute, and in tears over an explosion that left her young Chow and other animals running with their coats on fire until they toppled.

Carlos, animal caretaker at Martha's Farm in New York, holds the young Ghenghis Khan some weeks before the fire.

A story in The Morning Call described the tragic event . . .

THE CALL --- A day after a propane explosion killed 15 show dogs in a Carbon County kennel, co-owner Karen Tracy mourned the passing of a 16th dog that died Saturday morning, and tearfully described the propane delivery driver as a ''hero.''

Badly burned in the explosion, the truck driver managed to first toss a cairn terrier named Chilli over the fence to safety before getting himself out of harm's way.

''That man is a hero,'' Tracy said. ''My heart goes out to his family.''

Timothy Kleinhagen of Summit Hill was taken to Lehigh Valley Hospital-

Cedar Crest where he was listed in critical condition Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.
He was filling the kennel's propane tank when the explosion occurred about 2:25 p.m. Friday. Fire officials have said a spark or static electricity could have ignited the fire, which sent flames 75 feet into the air and ripped through the pens at Pazzazz Pet Boarding kennel, near Beltzville State Park in Franklin Township.

In addition to the 15 dogs that died Friday, 13 dogs were taken two nearby animal hospitals. A 3-year-old chow chow named Shamrock was badly injured and didn't make it through the night, Tracy said. Six were released Saturday.

Creature Comforts of Saylorsburg was treating five of the dogs, most with second- or third-degree burns. Two were in critical condition Saturday, two were stable and ready to be transferred to another kennel and one will need skin grafts, said Dr. Karin Breitlauch, the veterinarian who owns Creature Comforts.

One of the dogs in critical condition sustained burns over 80 percent of her back, she said.

Like human burn victims, the dogs will get fluids, diuretics and antibiotics, Breitlauch said.

''Fortunately, they have very thick skin,'' she said, but added that for the dogs in critical condition, ''the next three or four days will be touch and go.''

Lehighton Animal Hospital is also treating some of the dogs.

A COMFORTING THOUGHT ON ANIMAL LOSS

THERE WILL BE HEALING,

AND THERE WILL BE FACES IN THE CLOUDS

AMONG SHOOTING STARS SO PROFUSE,

THAT WE WILL REVEL AT WHERE THESE FACES HAVE COME TO---

--AND KNOW SURELY, WE'LL SEE THEM AGAIN. Andrea Spencer


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Women of Achievement Honored

on THE MARTHA SHOW

as Martha Stewart Gives Dreamer to Doer Awards,
and Hosts Poet Maya Angelou.

A Comment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I just viewed your show with Maya Angelou. I'd like to comment on the Dreamer to Doer element so elegantly displayed about you, Dr. Angelou, and the other women of achievement.

You mentioned you'd like women to submit their valued thoughts and poetic inclinations to you. I would love to see a forum developed for sharing of such word and thought. The spoken art is a craft, a lifestyle after all. It belongs included within your many mediums! It would also open doors for those of us who are artisans within that arena.

My life as a writer, studying with poet Cora Brooks and Boston Globe Arts Editor Robert Taylor, working aside families of Ernest Hemmingway, Dr.William A. McCall and wife Gretchen Schweitzer in Coral Gables, then friend of Virginia Woolf, author May Sarton, has left me stymied, up against this new society. . . . . . . . . . I stand stuck on the cement of every sidewalk -- with a text messenger around my neck that won't respond to any word greater than 'DUR.'

Additionally, with all due respect to many blogs, I find that to say more than 'Hi Ho' is too much talk and the moderator swiftly files you to the floor.

Is artful writing a dead business?


WORD ARTISTS

Those who treat the word as their dance are those who create the goosebumps, win the elections and become the Maya Angelous of society.

I would appreciate your effort to unshovel thoughtful writers, to allow the occasional connotative word a home, and to support that finely spun language be a guest of honor at every table.


Please create us a forum. It belongs with all of the other 'good things' upon your table.

-----Andrea Spencer

first, let's reminisce . . .

You'll catch author Andrea Spencer doing this throughout her 'column in continuum'. Being decades along now, she has much retro to flashback at you.

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Just A Season Or Two Back, It Was Yak Yak Yak.

From Spencer's TMZ column . . . . Who remembers baby mouthed Donald Trump trumpeting during one high key TV season? His spitting up all over this woman, that woman was quite the rage. He's been easy to take for a time. Must be there's a pacifier in the house.

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Do you remember, Do you care . . . . . . .

Rosie Rivets "Trumptee Dumptee"

COMMENTARY ------ By Andrea SpencerRemember . . . . Rosie was working her jaws to put Donald Trump on his rump while Miss USA dropped, stalled in feminine whimper.

The Donald waved his fairy tale wand over her future, granting her one more chance to be a good crown wearing girl. Remember . . . . .

The girl partied. The public rallied . . . . . . all over Trumptee Dumptee.

But nobody sat Donald down like ‘Andy Slandy’.

Andrea Spencer of Norton, Massachusetts, a writer and producer for the national media, addressed a hurt Martha Stewart way back when, as Mr. Trumpet held this dear woman in his mouth. Mean words Trump fed Stewart, as he pulled THE APPRENTICE, MARTHA STEWART from production after its first season, did not impress columnist Spencer.

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Hi Martha,

Donald Trump’s words, spewed all over you this week, christened his own low riding ship.

His salient mouth makes for a bad breath that pretty much fills him up from head to toe.

What he spit up today illustrates Donald, not you.

His growling jowls made him a fool for all of us with class. We who hear his noise, see a two legged walking stick in the crowd, who exhibits a need for enlightenment, Twelve Steps at a time.

Cud chewing Don may gather silly paper money from the fields, but honey, you’ve got the light that gives blossom to those fields.

Andrea

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When asked about the grace bestowed upon Miss USA, which Martha saw none of, Spencer replied, “Gee, could we guess there’s a deal behind the deed with Missy? -- one that could not be bought with Ms.”

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Andrea Spencer is retired CEO of the National Cancer Society for Animals. She continues to work with star power celebrity within the 36 billion dollar a year animal industry, promoting health power throughout the animal kingdom.

Be watching for her national column and excerpts from her upcoming book, "Professor in the Sky with Diamonds”. For more on DIAMONDS, Google Andrea and the Weimaraners.