The World Series starts tonight, pitting the miraculous Colorado Rockies against the new Yankees from Boston, the Red Sox.  The Red Sox payroll this year was $160 million plus for the honor of being the best team money could buy. Colorado, on the other hand, is a roster filled with prospects sprinkled with a couple of key veterans whose payroll was in the neighborhood of $60 million this season.

Colorado staged an incredible sprint to the wire to get into the playoffs, and is on the verge of saving the sporting world from all things Boston this year. Boston College is the second ranked college football team in the country. The New England Patriots, winners of three of the last six Super Bowls, are on a record pace this year with many pundits predicting an unbeaten NFL season. The Celtics, with the Kevin Garnett off-season trade, are favored to win out in the NBA east this year.

Go Rockies! Stop the Boston juggernaut.

Lois Henry recently posted a blog from her column on Animal Control and the need for a mandatory spay and neuter program here in the city. I would add that it would be a benefit to have the mandatory spay rule county wide.

Everyone in this town that reads the paper or watches the local news knows the staggering death toll that happens at our local facility (more than 16,000 dogs last year).  If the place took cats the number would probably be doubled. Any one who has tried to call on a loose dog or dead animal body in the road knows that responses are slow due to tremendous under staffing issues.

It is also apparent from reading an article on today's Tehachapi News website that even when confronted with abusive conditions and criminal behavior not much happens to backyard breeders and collectors who continue to grow this problem.

So, anyone in an upscale community here in town see some loose dogs out and about looking for a little love? Maybe one will get lucky, we know where most of them will end up.