I'm there! Hope you guys are voting on Zootoo for us at LHS :)

I sure hope Daisy and her owner will be at Pet Ownership Day this Sunday for her free microchip.

easy way to do it, go to the voting page, right click the link to vote, open 10 tabs, and vote away!

i got them at both of my email addresses....wonder how they got me on that list.

it was just a mess that i unfortunately walked away from. we had one non paying roommate so i got stuck with 2/3 of the rent for 2 months, any time we showed the extra room to someone the superintendent complained about them "slamming" the downstairs door. we were right next to a light rail station in belleville and had a lot of wind on our end of the block because of the open space. the stairs were old and noisy. the apartment didn't come with a fridge which is why i never actually moved in. in the 3rd month nobody covered the 3rd roommates rent, and on the 4th month a new person had moved in and paid the rent. another time i showed up, i found out the new roommate had a friend who was renting my bedroom! the landlord got 3/3 rent in the last month and roommate #1 decides to pack his bags and disappear, so we lost the security deposit. i'm much happier in journal square anyway. i had to scrape up money fast to move in here, but damn was it worth it! this place didn't come with a fridge but i was able to pick one up in the heights and transported it with a van. my landlord now is cool as hell and a really great guy and there are no issues at all in our unit. we had a problem with there being only one mailbox for the entire building and my roommate's mail not showing up (her husband is in marine boot camp and sends her multiple letters every day and her netflix dvds were mysteriously not making it in the mail) so the landlord put up separate boxes and we bought stick on letters so the names are reflective and legible. now we get all of our mail, including the netflix. my next tackle is finding a parking spot with security.

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Sorry you had this experience. I had a similar experience when I moved to Belleville, only with the superintendent being a nosey and annoying neighbor, telling us what we could and couldn't do, while breeding pit bulls and cichlids in the basement. We couldn't have a dog bigger than a teacup Yorkie apparently. We couldn't even walk down the hallway stairs at certain times of night (I worked nights) because he would call and complain. He also let the landlord in unannounced 2 weeks into our lease (I hadn't even moved in yet) to take pictures while nobody was home. They claimed we damaged the cheap wood floors (polyeurothane covered!) when we didn't even have a single piece of furniture in the place at the time. Needless to say, I got out of there within a month or two. I paid 2 months rent and a security deposit and never even moved in because of the headache. When I went back to return my keys and take the little box of things I brought there, apparently my old roommate rented out the spare room, never told anyone, and the new girl wanted to have a fist fight with me. This was of course after my PS2, Nintendo DS, a bottle of perfume a friend bought me, and a guitar hero controller were missing from it. I lost my security deposit, and apparently the old landlord was looking to garnish me? Kiss my ass!

This kind of stuff was happening to me and my friends in the mid 90's by #8 school in the heights. Healy wasn't the mayor then. This type of group attack has been going on for ages.

Pat Massett all the way!

I have a 94 Schwinn Criss Cross that I rode back and forth to and from Hoboken for the last few weeks while my car was in the shop. I would park it and chain it in front of a client's house for sometimes 5-6 hours at a time. I have an old Bike Club lock and a bunch of Kryptonite cables that I have bungee corded to the back rack. I make sure to run the cables through the wheels, gear, frame, and any other area to prevent someone from being able to ride it, while locking the bike lock through the frame and rear wheel to a secure post or fence pole. A cheap carabiner clip can be placed in other areas of the wheels/gears and be barely noticed, so even if they do cut the locks, it will make the getaway harder if the clip matches the bike's color. Also, I usually pull the brake cables out so the brakes are non functioning, and have at times loosened the back wheel to disengage the chain and derailleur. It's a shame I had to do all of those things, but in the past I've had BMX bikes chained up and people eyeing them and tampering them right from the window of my old office.

one of my cat has been wearing a collar & id tag for 8 years. every few months we change the collar and swap the id tag. he's also microchipped. my dog and other cat are next to get microchipped. they currently wear collars with id tags. the dog has his rabies tag and will soon have his renewed dog license tag.

Im looking for a decent spot near summit and academy for myself. The only lot available right now is across the street from the crack house on academy and baldwin where that girl was shot up 2 months ago. My roommate rents from that lot...god bless her.

That's right, yours truly, your local friendly neighborhood Croft is in business in these areas. After much thought into the idea and realizing there is a need here, I decided to offer services to these areas. I will not be touching downtown or any address in Hoboken. There are plenty of walkers in those areas whom I will gladly recommend you to if I feel I am overstepping anyone's area.

I have a website with my rates and contact info at http://dogdayafternoon.weebly.com

I have references and I currently work at Liberty Humane Society. My flyers will be up around the Beacon in a day or two, and also around McGinley Square and the surrounding areas wherever flyers are permitted.

I FEEL YOUR PAIN

except I didn't have a GPS....

see my post about it...

http://jclist.com/modules/newbb/viewt ... =&topic_id=15911&forum=10

Nothing like buying the entire stock of cat litter and bleach at pathmark for Liberty Humane Society on a Saturday, then waiting to have to load your car up with 2 carts of shelter supplies. I feel your pain.

I use this Pathmark often enough. It's right down the hill from me and it's 24 hours, so when I'm up late and run out of something at home, I jump in the car and head down. At night it's not too much of a problem, and I've never felt threatened in the area but I can see there being big problems in that area based on some of the people that hang around out there at night. I never carry cash on me and I just use my judgement before heading back to the car. I'd hate to have a ton of groceries to carry back to the car which is sometimes parked far away in the lot.

We made a major movement with the BJ's carts, though I still see them even with the wheel locks on them floating around mostly in Hoboken and even as far as McGinley Square and Greenville, but what can you do? Usually it's just a quick phone call to BJ's and the carts are picked up. Up in the heights, Supremo Supermarket and Stop N Shop use the bollard method to keep the carts in the store. Up by my parents house in the heights, there are still tons of shopping carts floating around. We had a neighbor who would shop a few times a week, bring the cart home, then leave it on the street corner by the bus stop. The carts would become vehicles for the local kids to push each other around in, and then by night get picked up by people collecting aluminum cans and scrap metal.

My parents would've punished me if they ever saw me pushing friends or riding around in one of those carts. I remember getting yelled at because a few childhood friends would steal milk crates from the corner store, cut out the bottoms, and turn them into basketball nets and put them on telephone poles. Oh the joys of being a kid in Jersey City.

Unfortunately with the neighborhood near Pathmark still going through changes, they are doing their best to keep the carts in the store. Those things are expensive and if you go to some of these smaller supermarkets, you'll find retired a&p, path mark, shop rite, walbaums (remember that store?) and other old carts with new plastic handles melted over the old ones. Supremo in the heights is guilty of this. I think Montgomery Foods also has some of these carts. What a shame that people can't just return the carts when they're done using them. The supermarkets sell granny carts. They're not that expensive, and after a few shopping trips, the carts have earned their worth.

are you talking about Pink, the kitten, as the skittish one?

I'm glad Hemmingway was reclaimed!

The cats are still on their stray hold. A 15th cat came in around Wednesday. As itsaurora said, the cats will be held, evaluated, and then the appropriate actions will be taken. Those unadoptable via LHS will be returned to the rescue to decide whether they should be worked with or neutered/spayed and returned to the park. Sounds reasonable, right?

Glad to meet you guys today. She's a cute kitty. She's in good hands. I cannot stress the importance of id tags on collars. This was definitely someones housecat.

I'll be there Sunday morning, but until then, I'm scoring ZooToo points. So should all of you!

I worked at LHS last night. Most of these cats seem scared, but are not feral. Some are already sweet and friendly, but need to be evaluated and tested for FIV and Feline Leukemia. All of the cats that came from the trapping have Lincoln Park written on their cage cards.

Some of these cats are quite beautiful. I feel bad for any owners who may have lost them and gave up hope.

i live on summit near vroom st. it's not quite mcginley square, not quite journal square, but i'm in the midst of it.

i had my car broken into in january here, the only bad thing that's happened so far. i love my apartment and the location as far as getting to work and school. i also attended high school on duncan and the blvd at st. doms, so i've seen the years of changes. the area has improved tremendously, but we're still many years from "hobokenization."

if you're willing to join in our crusade and become a pioneer, welcome aboard! i'm always up for making a new neighbor friend.

I'll be working at the shelter on Tuesday. Please say hi if you come in at night. I should be in the dog kennel :)

what's the price range like? i live about a block and a half away from the old summit house. i was only there when it was laico's.

my grandmother's old house in prospect st. was haunted as hell. you could hear someone pacing back and forth upstairs when nobody was home. the fact that they had a church organ with the 3 rows of keys in the living room didn't make it any less creepy. when my grandmother died and the place was renovated, the new owners have claimed to hear nothing of the sort. very weird.

also, i had relatives who lived in a house on academy and baldwin. i hear that place was very haunted as well.

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I took home two fosters from LHS who were nearing their 1 year stay at the shelter. When I felt the second one I took home (on Thanksgiving, because he never had Thanksgiving) was ready to go to a home, I sent him to an adoption event at Petsmart through LHS and he was adopted that day. The other foster is going to be adopted by me. There are a lot of happy endings at LHS. Our ZooToo affiliates are living proof.

For the most part, most of our cats are adopted before their year stay. I always wish the best for these cats and dogs that come through our doors. My heart goes out to all of them, and we do our best to give them the attention and care they deserve.

I'm extremely happy that Daisy is home. I lost my first cat for a 24 hour period and it was an absolute nightmare. He was collared with ID, but he was just out roaming through yards. He came home when he was hungry. I was about 8 years old, and I must have cried for the entire time he was missing. I can't even imagine how my parents felt at the time. Let's just hope that this never happens again.

i cannot wait to show off sharky's new colts martingale collar and matching leash when it comes in the mail....drooolllll....

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i must check this out. i live right in the area too. i usually. take the trek to the salvation army in union city but i can never find what i'm looking for. i'm in the market for some black pants because i'm back to the food service industry in another week or so =/

There are cash prizes for the top shelters. We need the money badly to purchase supplies. I think John can explain the money aspect of the contest better than I can. I can explain the needs of the shelter, but I'd bore people for hours.

Also, if anyone is up for donating washing machines, we are in DIRE need of working washing machines and towels for bedding the dog cages. For cats, pillow cases and small linens work well.

one of my closest friends *fingers crossed* should be coming in with the new class. i hope he does, he'd be a great cop. i am going to take the test myself next time around.

my mom and her siblings used to play in the garbage dumps in bayonne and hide her little sisters ring in the trash.

on mischief night, before eggs, shaving cream, and nair were used, they would go to this guy charlie\'s corner store and soap up bad words on his window after writing \"cheap\" in front of charlies with the soap.

they would swim the kill van kull to staten island and back. they would retreat when "shit tide" passed by at 5pm.

my dads family were poor, and even though there were six of them, they all had a very good family which passed on to my family and how me and my brother were raised. i\'m very thankful for that.

both of my grandfathers fought in world war II and the vietnam war. many of my uncles and my father continued the tradition and joined the marines, air force, and navy.

when i was a kid in the 80's, we would do group digs on prospect street, before they cemented over the dirt patches and areas that once housed very large trees. we climbed in many of those trees and on top of the railroad houses and garages on waverly st and reservoir avenue.

my brother's generation were big on climbing in the reservoir. many of them didn't make it.

blowing up fireworks was a big past time in the summer. we lived for m80\'s and roman candles. one of my closest friends blew up his fingers with jumping jacks. my brother's shoulder was badly burned when someone threw a jumping jack on his shirt near christ hospital.

for fun as kids, we would tell "henny" the celebrity of the heights to go into ambucar on new york avenue and watch him walk out with a stretcher or ride in a wheel chair in his prom dress. yes, we were mean.

i remember having a pool and having all of the neighborhood kids come over to swim. when 6pm hit, they went down the block to use this kid anthony for his pool because it was deeper.

fire hydrants weren\'t fun when the fire department put sprinkler caps on them. they were only fun when we illegally took the cap off and wrecked everyone\'s water on the block. my mother hated doing laundry during those days. brown underwear and socks were never my thing either.

pershing field little league was my life from the time i was 6 until i was 17. i lived to pitch that ball. high school softball and eventually college softball were never that fun. i always hated running laps for punishment and tryouts because running to me was never as important as knowing how to play the game.

in the winter, i skated at pershing field ice rink every single day with my friends from st. nicks.

i miss the days of riding bikes, scooters, skateboards (which i broke my arm doing) and rollerblades. i never could skate on those damn quad skates and still don\'t understand how current rollergirls can do it.

i wish i could revert to life before the internet, college, and the work force.

even though i was an 80's kid, i can relate to a lot of these things. nothing beat scraping up change and sharing a clinton's iced tea with 3 of my friends and a bag of ridgies sour cream & onion chips when they still came in the green bag. walking to grammar school in the morning a little early so we could sneak an egg mcmuffin at the "new" mcdonalds on central avenue was always a treat. man did those things hurt during the first few hours of school.

i remember my mom would give me a dollar every day to buy milk and a bag of chips with my lunch. that dollar lasted me until after school when i'd hit up tuffies (now central liquors) and play air hockey with my classmates white people dealt "dope" outside. those were the "bad guys."

pizza by the park and the mortal kombat machine were another hangout of mine. i would come home from school sometimes after 5pm, no questions asked, no cell phones, no immediate dangers.

i made friends with whatever kids lived around the corner from me. the old people on waverly st. hated us for playing touch football in the street. it was a slice of heaven when someone was given an official sized football. we could barely even hold the thing but the idea of it excited us.

basketball with a milkcrate on a telephone pole was another treat until someone in the neighborhood became angry with the noise of kids playing all day.

super soakers, zap its, and imitation super soakers were a vital part of summer. i still have a super soaker laying around. it works well when curbing the dog's barking.

sunday church was a chore, but i always went. as i got older i stopped going. i went to midnight mass this year with my entire family only to notice that the church was half empty. when i was a kid going to st. nicks, you had to get there early to get a seat.

the bar up the street, mcdunna's, was always full of umpires from pershing field. usually they were passed out cold on the bar. we would sneak in and use the shuffleboard table until the bartender threw us out realizing there was no guardian there for us.

we got into street fights where the only weapon we had were our fists. usually a day later we'd make up and drink iced tea together on one of our porches. when other kids tried to steal our bikes, we put up a fight and always kept our belongings. now, you never know who's carrying a gun.

beepers were cool. they were so cool that the corner stores stocked toys and fake beepers. i bought the whole display of them for $10 and brought them to school. we'd set them off at the same time and the teacher never knew who had them.

big extravagant pencil boxes were a sign of who was more spoiled. dress down days were another sign. i hated dress down days. i had no sense of style. gym class was another. i never had cool kicks.

we didn't get the internet until i was in high school. i learned how to build an ibm pc from watching my dad build computers and write his own dos programs.

i spent a lot of summer time in pennsylvania. i didn't get along with any of the kids up there because i was "too rough around the edges" for them. they didn't understand the concept of walking to school. i spent those summers alone, riding an old moped, swinging on a tire swing, playing basketball in a gravel driveway, or mowing the lawn with a ride on montgomery ward tractor. it made me feel special, because at 10 years old i was driving. not only was i driving, but i was driving a tractor with a clutch. i drive a manual car in jersey city now. it's a piece of cake.

roosevelt lanes in jersey city was the place to be for me. everyone knows that bowl rite was the place to be if you were broke and wanted to bowl. when roosevelt closed, a part of my childhood died.

hamilton park was a high school hangout. we would rollerblade on that big cement pyramid thing. i hear they fenced it in now. bummer.

you could go anywhere in pershing field and find our skate wax on the ledges. i never did learn to grind on a rail. i didn't even own "aggressive" skates. i destroyed whatever skates i had trying.

during softball, we lived for joe's italian ices. i sometimes wonder if he's still around. maybe now that i have a dog to walk i'll take the trek up and watch a little league softball game and reminisce.

great stroll down memory lane. sorry i am an 80's jersey city kid.

my friends have been going to the place in india square for over 10 years. they are fast and cheap. i think it's got a pink awning, a little bit past dosa hut and the fast food places. i really wish i knew the name of it. i drove my friend there a few months ago, sat in the car and within 15 minutes she was out. her eyebrows looked great. i wish i could grow mine in enough to thread them but i'm too reliant on the tweezers...meh.