Blog Entries ( dog love )

Mary and her husband, Jim, had a dog named Lucky. Lucky was a real character. Whenever Mary and Jim had company for a weekend visit, they would warn their friends not to leave their luggage open because Lucky would help himself to whatever struck his fancy. Inevitably, someone would forget, and something would come up missing. Mary or Jim would go to Lucky’s toy box ...

I like my vet. I really like my vet. He is thorough, he takes his time, but most importantly he shows and explains everything to me (and though I consider myself intelligent, he puts it into words that I can comprehend). He shows me clean and dirty ears; he makes me feel any cysts or warts. He involves me, which is perhaps what I ...

I grew up having dogs.  My parents bought our first Basset Hound when I was in third grade.  After she passed away, we adopted a Black Lab we’d found on the site Petfinder.com.  I didn’t get my real “first dog” until I was 25-years old.  Sure, I grew up in a house with dogs.  But Robin is the first dog that’s been all mine.  Okay, not ...

1. Give me time to understand what you want of me. 2. Place your trust in me. It's crucial to my well-being. 3.  Be aware that however you treat me, I'll never forget it. 4. Before you scold me for being lazy, ask yourself if something might be bothering me. 5.  Talk to me sometimes. Even if I don't understand your words, I do understand your voice ...

Author Monica Holloway was devastated to learn that her adorable, brilliant three-year-old son was autistic.  Sure, he was different and special, but isn't every child, in his own way?  Wills could talk about trains and planes for hours at a time, but ran screaming if the smallest (to us) thing upset his well-ordered world. Monica reacted to the diagnosis in a perfectly logical way: she ...

Romeo was Stacy's Neapolitan Mastiff. He was bigger than life, weighing 175 pounds when he passed away at 10 years and 31 days. When Stacy brought him home, Romeo was 12-weeks old. She had never seen a beast like him. He was not like any other breed of dog, and that made him special to her. After 25 years in dog grooming and rescue, Stacy ...