Man Writes Personal Ads For Lonely Pets

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Scott Delucchi writes personal ads -- for pets.

In nine months, only one of the Peninsula Humane Society pets he's spotlighted -- a blind pit bull named Charlie -- was not adopted and had to be euthanized for health reasons.

There's no way of telling whether it's Delucchi's prose or the accompanying photo that does the trick. But after witnessing what spills out of Delucchi's brain and into his word processor during a recent afternoon, it's no wonder his Pet of the Week ads have developed a following.

His weekly ritual begins with the name. Considering cat candidates, he rambled through the list, dispatching Mikey, Chloe, Pearl, Mithril (``never seen `Lord of the Rings' ''), Topper and Pumpkin (``one of those overused names'').

Then he lighted on Mandy, a tabby. And the sarcasm flew:

``Oh, Mandy! If I hear one more visitor singing that crappy Barry Manilow song, I may hack up a fur ball on the spot. At just five years of age, I'm not old enough to remember the 1970s songster, but his music apparently lives on.''

This is what Delucchi, a humane society vice president, sends to a local newspaper. To print. Which they do, after taking out the word ``crappy.''

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