Moree loved to bark. Loved it. It made him happy. You see, he assigned himself the job of protecting our house, and was certain that it needed protecting from everything he could see, including birds so far away we had trouble making them out. In our first house, when we …
For over 10 years, I insulted one of our cats every day, and never even realized it. Her name was Dummy. And no, it never occurred to me that I was calling her dumb. That was just her name. That was not what her name was to start though. Before …
Beelzebub did not play fetch, and he did not respond to any shortening of his name. His name was Beelzebub. If you wanted him to respond to you, you had better say the whole thing. If you threw something away, you obviously did not want it. He took the trouble …
Morning Star had no desire to jump the fence. Jumping was mundane; it was what you expected horses to do. No, when Star decided she wanted to take a stroll around the neighborhood, she crawled through the fence. First, she would put a front leg through, between the top and …
(Yes, there’s a theme this week.) I wish I had taken a picture of Keegan. He was a beautiful, 100+lb GSD, Malmute, wolf mix, and he lived with us for a long weekend. We met Keegan in the parking lot of a Fred Meyer store. When we walked in, he …
Miss Molly is a 15lb Caern terrier who belongs to a dear friend of mine. She comes over to visit just about any time he does, and we are her default pet sitters. She is always a total joy to have around. When Molly came over to visit Smokey and …
There was a pit bull roaming the neighborhood this last week, and he almost became my third dog. In this case, we had never seen him before (and trust me, I know by sight the dogs that live in our neighborhood), but had a good idea of where he belonged. …
Like many babies, June likes having a pacifier. In her case, it is anything soft. At 18 months, she still loves to have a blanket, pillow, or a piece of your clothing in her mouth as she gets ready to go to sleep. This can be very cute, but she …
Morning Star was my father’s horse. She was a non-spotted appaloosa, or more accurately, her spots were brown on brown, so you really couldn’t see them. When I was quite young, her pasture took up the back half of our yard. Our fort, Fort Crooked, was in the middle of …
We used to joke that as far as Moree was concerned, we existed for three reasons, fetch, food, and pets, in that order. He loved to play fetch, and would do so to the exclusion of all else (unless we were at the dog park). When we first got him, …
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