Monthly Archives: June 2013
Willie vs. the Paper Shredder
My office desperately needs cleaning and organizing, which requires document shredding. It’s usually an uneventful and rather boring task — except when Willie helps. We have a little game we play called Willie vs. the Paper Shredder. It involves a game of strategic skill and speed eliminating unwanted paper piles. We begin with the electronic […]
Dogged Devotion
Our dogs don’t all like each other. The two little ones like each other and the two big ones like each other, but the little ones only tolerate the big ones and everyone tires of Fen, the 90-pound puppy’s, antics. However, they are a dog family, a pack and I am the leader of that […]
“Willie, Where’s Your Noodle?”
“Willie, Where’s Your Noodle?” Our 6 1/2-year-old chocolate lab has one major food obsession – the noodle. Although he loves meat, bread, fruit and vegetables, pasta remains his No. 1 food selection. We can always tell when he craves the noodles draining in the kitchen strainer by his frantic doggy dancing, increased levels of panting […]
Chance Comes Home
It was a very sad day in December, when we lost our dog, Jake. It was one of the worst days in my whole life. Jake was an 8-year-old Lab border collie that we had gotten from a program called Second Chance Companions. I had a friend that volunteered for Second Chance and they were […]
Russian Shedders
I love this time of year: flowers blooming, sun shining and a yard covered in a whispy layer of white dog hair. With four big white dogs (Borzoi aka Russian Wolfhounds) that grow thick wintery undercoats when spring rolls around, I take the puppies outside, bathe them, put them up on a grooming table and […]
My name is Chance
Hello, My name is Chance (aka “The White Tornado”) and this is the story of my new home. My story begins in the country where I was born on a farm with lots of dogs and other animals. I was one of the smaller dogs, which made life harder when it came to trying to […]
Willie and Garbage Day
Our 6 1/2-year-old chocolate lab Willie has an incessant demand for routine in his life. One such example is garbage day. Couldn’t say how this set of rituals began, but they are set in stone now. Early every Wednesday morning, Willie wakes up dutifully aware of the daily responsibilities and tasks to unfold. As I […]
Cat(Dog?)nap
When I was a little girl, my mom would say, “Let me lay down on the couch for just ten minutes.” She’d fall asleep for ten minutes, then wake up refreshed and ready for the rest of her day. I, too, often take a short nap, though mine are usually twenty minutes. These little catnaps […]