Dr. F reports on the Prospect Heights Message Boards: “A few weeks ago we called 311 because rats are nesting in our front yard … and then a few weeks later we got a citation in the mail from the Department of Health claiming that we had a garbage situation which violated the health code, causing the rat problem. The problem … was the apartment building next door …”

“Ridiculous–we call the City to report a health hazard, and end up geting a citation for it. (Actually, my wife was warned when she called 311 that if they came out they would probably give us a citation, but that seemed so ridiculous that we didn’t believe it.)”

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A bunch of DAILY HEIGHTS regulars got together and had a bake sale to benefit a food bank in Houston that’s helping with Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Total raised: $613. Thank you Prospect Heights!

Every well-kept, pillow-ornament poodle secretly wishes they could lead the life of Lucky the Ghetto Poodle - running around all scroungy and scruffy, business flapping in the breeze, hanging out in a dingy (former) laundromat on the corner of St. John’s and Underhill. Some time ago, Isa told me that that his name is Lucky.

Pictured: Lucky investigates another small creature in the neighborhood. Moments later, Lucky jumped into a green Jeep Cherokee and was whisked off to parts unknown.

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