Sally Sauer, Community Contributor

I have taken some time to ponder my new Walpole Patch Mayor status. I have been strutting around calling myself the Mayor, so maybe now it's time to settle down and talk with my fellow Walpolians about life today in Walpole.

My husband, Jon and I have lived in Walpole for maybe centuries! We practice construction law at 284 Main St. Sauer & Sauer has been in business for a real long time (I believe I have earned every day of my 60 years of life and I fight having to color my hair). Haruumph!!!

I am also a pit bull advocate. I have adopted four pitties (smaller pit bulls). All four were adopted to honor the life and struggle of Puppy Doe Kiya, the pit bull tortured in Quincy a few years ago. I use vets in Walpole and Norwood. Ashfield Cheyne and Sharon Vet Clinic are good. Beware going to Tufts Vet Emergency in Walpole. If they disagree with how you have have handled some dog emergency, you will find yourself arrested by the Animal Rescue League, indicted for animal cruelty and sent to Walpole State Prison for years. That is the new reality in Walpole after the passage of the PAWS II bill, ironically created as a result of the uproar over the Puppy Doe tragedy.

Our New York dogs were adopted off of their "Dead Dogs Walking" list. That means if they're not adopted by 12 noon the following day, they will be destroyed. Imagine their terror. They are intelligent and sensitive creatures. Their owner dumps them, they end up in a kennel and get to smell and somehow otherwise sense, acutely, the terror and the death in the air. As opposed to the MSPCA here in Massachusetts, New York shelters are public and must take any dog surrendered. The Animal Rescue League, here, will not take any dog with a bite history. I guess they get "euthanized" or the owner finds some other solution. The picture below shows Sammy and running quickly by, Delilah. Sammy is from New York and has a bite history. Not outside the house, or with any dog or human outside.

Just inside the house. She looks a little scared, doesn't she? We would not be surprised if the Animal Rescue League serves a search warrant on us and tries to remove - kill - our New York dogs. That is life today, readers, in this new Orwellian age in Walpole, Massachusetts. Do readers sense a story just bursting to get updated?!