Blog Entries ( Lab )

        Invariably, when M.W. and I leave the house, Sammy leaves a puddle.  Everything to Maya is a chew toy, including Boo Boo, Felix, and Delilah, our three cats.  Sammy has a chronic case of separation anxiety, and Maya is a Twinkie-sized terrorist. We’re all one big, bloody marvelous crew. When I first met M.W., he described Bela and Sammy as different as night and day.  Bela, a ...

My project dog for the day: I volunteer at a dog shelter in Westchester County, New York. I go there every weekend and walk the dogs. Recently, I spent four hours working with a little black Lab puppy because she had just come up from the South and was terrified of people. It took an hour of that time to get her used to me. I sat ...

Greetings All! This is my first blog, and I would like to introduce and share a little about myself. I recently relocated to Silver Spring from Los Angeles, where I was the happy mom of two shelter pups, Kiki, a min-pin, and Komet, a Lab mix.  Well, actually, the two were not puppies. Kiki and Komet were both approximately six-years old. Unfortunately, due to my marriage separation and ...

Back in 2007, my family had urgently tried to contact me after the Interstate 35W bridge had collapsed into the Mississippi River. I had been attending a class near the bridge and they wanted to make sure that I was ok. Just last March, one day before my birthday, my family was once again trying to urgently reach me. I was just getting out of the ...