COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL • FEBRUARY 20, 2019 •
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Pet Tips
‘n’ Tales
Adopting support
By Mary Ellen
“Angel Scribe”
A Purr-fessional Cat
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COURTESY PHOTO
Ellen Hogue (left) recently received a certifi cate of adoption of a carousel horse from the carousel board president,
Don Williams (right). The horse is adopted in memorial to her husband of many years, Gary (Bill) Hogue, and grand-
son, Justin Simons, who lost his life in an industrial accident. Ellen and Gary were very instrumental in the 1970s and
1980s in working for the community betterment through Bohemia Mining Days and Prospectors and Golddiggers.
All components of the carousel are being off ered as adoption items to fi nance the completion of the restoration and
create a building fund for a permanent home for the carousel.
hirteen-year-old Phillipa’s name is Greek for “horse
lover,” but she’s not! Instead, Phillipa is a lover of birds
who was selected from many cats for the paw-fession-
al job of protecting bird’s food from mice. She was hired on
as a shelter rescue 10 years ago. She had big paws to fi ll. Her
purr-evious feline purr-edessesor, Sox, had “gift ed” the Wild
Birds Unlim-ited shop with 29 micey-gift s over her working
career.
But like humans, Phillipa has her own style. She considers
“the gift s” to be her midnight snacks, so her trophy record re-
mains purr-ivate. Oh, and she has catitude and purr-furs to be
re-furr-ed to by her nick name Pippa.
Morag, who has worked at the shop as long as Pippa, recalls,
“We ran a contest to name our new redheaded employee. Cus-
tomer suggestions were fun like Mouser and Emilia Mouseh-
eart, and her honey-coloured coat inspired Honey, Ginger
and Ginny. Th en one day a four-year-old girl came into the
shop with her grandmother. Th e girl took one look at the new
mouser and confi dently declared, ‘I have a nice name. It is Pip-
pa,’ and she won!”
Community invited to Father-Daughter Dance fundraiser
Th e public is invited to attend
North Douglas High School’s
fourth annual Father Daugh-
ter Spring Dance this March in
support of the school’s music
department.
Th e dance will be from 6 to
9 p.m. on Friday, March 8, at
North Douglas High School in
Drain.
Tickets are $8 in advance
and can be purchased at Th e
Bookmine in Cottage Grove,
Exclusively Bridal in Drain and
Dickeys True Value Hardware
in Yoncalla.
Tickets can also be purchased
at the door for $10. Children 24
months and younger will be ad-
mitted for free.
Proceeds will benefi t the
North Douglas Music Depart-
ment. For more information,
call 541-836-2213.
Yoncalla Library receives late holiday gift
Th e Yoncalla Library and
the community of Yoncalla re-
ceived a late holiday gift thanks
to the Pilcrow Foundation,
the Yoncalla Library Advisory
Board, Daniel and Karen Hal-
loran of Oregon, Hal Berenson
and Laura Ackerman of Colora-
do, and Mouse Prints Press.
Th rough
a
two-to-one
matching grant between the
Foundation and the Library
Advisory Board, the Founda-
tion purchased 73 children’s
books for the library.
Th e advisory board used do-
nations in memory of Nancy
Hess (a long-time supporter of
the library) for its share of the
grant. In addition, the Pilcrow
Foundation used funds donated
by the Hallorans.
Th e books were selected by
Yoncalla Library librarian Jill
Cunningham.
Th e Pilcrow Foundation pro-
vided 23 additional books — all
math and science for children
— through a donation from Hal
Berenson and Laura Ackerman.
Six books in the Maurice’s
Valises series were donated di-
rectly through the foundation
by Mouse Prints Press, the pub-
lisher of the series.
Th e Yoncalla Library is open
Wednesdays from 10 a.m. to
5 p.m.; Th ursdays from 2 to 7
p.m.; and Saturdays from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.
Library cards are free to every
resident of Douglas County.
Friends of CG Carousel to
speak Th ursday in Springfi eld
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Willamalane Parks and
Restoration District will host
a 90-minute presentation on
Northwest Carousels (I-5, Th e
Trail of Carousels) during a
presentation that will consist
of three parts.
Th e presentation will take
place Th ursday, Feb. 28, at
the Springfi eld Adult Activity
Center, beginning at 2:30 p.m.
Darrell Jabin will give the
world history and origina-
tion of carousels, followed by
Wendy Kirby, originator and
curator of the Albany Carou-
sel, who will discuss the suc-
cessful completion and oper-
ation of this carousel. Friends
of the Cottage Grove Carousel
will talk about the restoration
of the 36-foot, 1929 Hershall
carousel with menagerie ani-
mals.
It is a free presentation
open to the public. Th e adult
activity center is located at
215 West C St. in Springfi eld.
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Lanaye and Morag are Pippa’s staff at the Wild Birds’
shop. (Mary Ellen photo)
Most customers, once seeing Pippa sleeping in one of her
favorite locations, exclaim, “My goodness — a cat in a bird
store! Does it eat birds?” But seriously, hadn’t they noticed that
there are no birds in the store? Paws-ibly a mouse or two, but
the birds are 100 percent safe.
Pippa now has quite a following. As soon as customers enter
“her store” they inquire, “Where is the pussycat?” before they
look for their purr-chases. Some have dropped in for a word
with Pippa, bring her a treat and make sure she has enough
attention for the day.
I must admit, I always ask “Where is Pippa?” upon entering
the shop for more bird seed. We have three cats and our bird
feeders must be stocked to keep their entertaining KBiRD-TV
channel on 24 hours a day. In the aft ernoon, Pippa catches the
sun’s rays in the window display, but most of the time she naps
beside the cash register for maximum cus-tomer petting ex-
posure.
Pippa is purr-fectly happy with her full-time job of snoo-
pervising staff , scaring mice away and saying “Meow” to cus-
tomers.
“I love my fan club,” said Pippa, “especially the ones who
bring me treats and catnip toys.”
Pippa’s Bird Tips
• Birds need water all year round for drinking and keeping
their feathers clean. A water fountain or mister attracts more
birds than still water (bird bath).
• Bird and feed stores sell heaters for birdbaths to prevent
water from freezing. (Birds eat more before fl ying south in the
winter.)
• Forest fi res drive birds to new areas for their food source.
• Chickadees stash sunfl ower seeds in tree bark, under dead
leaves, and in the ground, only to dig them up later and eat
when it snows.
• Some hummingbirds over-winter here, so keep their feed-
ers fi lled with a simple white sugar and water mixture. One-
part sugar to four parts water is the safest and best ratio. No
food coloring. Toss out any cloudy mixture as it harbors fun-
gus. Wash feeders with hot water/soap/vinegar.
• Hummers get their protein from eating insects, insect eggs,
and fruit fl ies, so the sugar water replaces the fl ower nectar, es-
pecially during the winter when fl owers are scarce.
• Never feed ducks/swans/birds bread! It expands in their
stomach and tricks them into thinking they are full without
providing them any nutritional value. Visit your pet/bird/feed
store for inexpensive healthy grains that they love.
• Hang bird feeders higher than six feet so cats can’t jump up
and pull the birds off .
• Purr-chase a colorful “Birds-be-safe” clown collar for your
cats so as they stealthily move, the collar’s bright colors alert
birds. Works better than bells!
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