I’ve mentioned in previous posts the fact that we have six cats. Excessive, yes. Do we rationalize why we have so many, yes.
About ten years ago I bought a pair of adult Himalayan/Siamese cats, a mated male and female. Unknown to me at the time, the female was already pregnant, and about three months [...]

We found Schaefer wandering the neighborhood in the dead of winter. He was painfully thin, every rib prominent, and his coat was thick and wooly and dirty. As with almost all the dogs we’ve rescued, he had no collar or identification of any kind. And he was scared to death. He rambled like a wolf [...]

During the night aliens landed in our backyard. I know because they left nothing but a perfect circle of dead, stinking vegetation where they landed. I didn’t see them, or hear them, and the Knuckleheads didn’t even bark an alarm. The aliens must have put all of us into some kind of suspended sleep [...]

Lucky’s incessant barking was finally more than I could bear yesterday. I couldn’t take another day of it–something had to give or one of us was going to suffer.
I threw on my shoes and made a mad dash to the pet store. I came home with a bark collar. I wrapped that baby around Lucky’s [...]

So of course it’s raining. The Knuckleheads REALLY wanted out to check out the squirrel tree, so I let ‘em. They sprinted to the tree, Lucky barking as usual (soooo irritating) and dancing around looking up, where is that pesky squirrel? Then they realized—oh….my….gosh….it’s RAINING!Must…get….back….into….house NOW. These guys act as if they will melt if [...]