| No balls, signs or junkers: Homeowners face strict rules
The Lamp Lites Mobile Home Park in Owensboro gave homeowners a new set of rules designed to help build property values. But many residents say they're too strict, and may push them out of the park. You won't hear or see kids playing ball any longer inside Lamp Lite Mobile Home Park, that's because it's now against the rules for kids to throw balls or play in neighbor's yards unless the resident approves. Lamp Light resident Misty Capps says, "The kids can't be kids. They can't play. It's taken away what summer they got." Kellie, another Lamp Lights resident says there is a bigger problem at stake, "There's a lot of kids that live out here. And they all have friends and they all wanna go see each other. How are they supposed to now? So the kids are pretty much gonna grow up by theirselves with no friends living out here." The 14 page rule book also bans any vehicles the management believes are "junkers," outlaws satellite dishes and barbeque's, unless pre-approved, requires pets be spayed and neutered, and institutes strict guidelines for the appearance and upkeep of the mobile homes.
Of Pets and People
Carol Chrisman lets a puppy up for adoption at the Delaware Humane Association know how much it is loved as it is being held by Jennifer Russell.The photo was shot at the humane association's Muttini Mixer, a fundraiser that kicked off the Wilmington shelter's 50th anniversary year, at the Residences at Rodney Square. Look for more of Ginger Wall's photos in a photo gallery at the bottom of this Web site, and in the next issue of Delaware Pets -- due in pet-related businesses and shelters starting March 15. .
Pets yearn for homes
WOODBRIDGE Behind an electronic gate, between petroleum tank farms to the north and east, past a police tow yard and municipal storage structures, in an abandoned chemical facility building near Woodbridge Creek, dogs bark in cages.
Forty cats make their homes in loose beds on top of those cages or in their own, while hot air blows from two heaters mounted to either side of a ceiling covered with exposed insulation. Outside, neutered feral cats wander around a pile of old supplies and quiet buildings. Last week, a rooster, two pigeons and a rabbit joined the cats and seven dogs inside. The concrete floor was wet, the air heavy with stink. People who work in animal shelters don't necessarily consider them happy places. And animals do smell. But just about everyone in Woodbridge agrees the current shelter at the CP Chemical site in Sewaren must go.
Pets killed 'by sickos'
SICK thieves stole two pet rabbits from a garden in Chard before returning to the scene to dump the guts of the slaughtered animals. The Nunn family of Bubwith Road are devastated by the incident, and are warning fellow pet owners to be on their guard. Lionhead rabbit Spook went missing on the night of Friday, February 2, while dwarf lop Snowy disappeared the following night. When the family went to feed Snowy on Sunday morning, they instead found the innards of their pets, neatly deposited on top of the hutch. "Snowy was missing and we were looking for holes in the run when I said 'What the hell is that?' and on top of the run were rabbits' intestines and guts. "There was no blood and it hadn't been done there and then - they had brought it back again.
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