Pets
Crazy Chicken Lady
Last Spring we brought home fifteen chicks from the feed store. It was our first time owning chickens, and we didn’t even have our coop built yet. The coop went up as the chicks grew out of their box in our spare room, then grew out of the brooder box in our garage, then when […]
Clark County Dog Parks: Ross
My kids and I took Luna to a dog park yesterday, mainly to see what it was like. I’ve never been to a dog park, so this was a new experience for all of us. I needed to run an errand in Hazel Dell so I decided to go to Ross Dog Park, located off […]
Love is Eternal
A member of our family came to the end of his life a few days ago. He was my in-laws beloved Cody, an energetic Havanese who lived every moment of every day with such exuberance that you couldn’t help but smile when he was around. To watch him play was to see pure joy in […]
Hummingbirds
I adore hummingbirds. I have a few plants in my yard that attract them, but I’ve been meaning for some time to hang a feeder to entice even more of them to come around. An employee at a local plant nursery assured me that if I put one up, the hummingbirds would appear. And boy, […]
Diet Update – Cat Food
This post is to provide an update on how my cats are doing with their recent diet change. I wrote a previous post on optimal pet nutrition that I’d love for you to read. — Clover, my (almost) 16 year old cat, has experienced intermittent constipation for some time now. I have given her several […]
Toxic Algae Alert
A health advisory has been issued regarding toxic algae found in certain lakes and reservoirs in Oregon. Children and animals are highly susceptible to the toxin that the algae releases. There have been reported dog deaths due to contact with this toxin, and death can occur 4-24 hours after exposure. If you see odd-colored, thick, […]
Puppy Series-Chewing
I’ve had puppies before, but as I mentioned in a previous post it has been nine years since my last voyage through puppydom. We brought Luna home four weeks ago, and every day since then I have been on Puppy Chewing! alert. We’re three flip-flops, one Barbie doll, two socks, and one roll of toilet […]
Heat Stroke
When it’s 70 degrees outside, the interior temperature of your car can reach 100 degrees in 30 minutes. At 85 degrees outside, it only takes 10 minutes for the interior temperature of a vehicle to get up to 102 degrees, and in 30 minutes can reach 120 degrees. Long story short: when it’s hot outside, […]
Just For Fun: Chickens
I have shared the last 15 weeks of my life with fifteen chickens; two Cuckoo Marans, three Rhode Island Reds, four Delaware, and six Plymouth Rocks. We purchased them as chicks with the intention of eventually having our own farm fresh eggs. Two of the fifteen turned out to be roosters, and this past week […]
Keeping Your Pet Safe on the Fourth
July 5, 2013, will most likely be the busiest day of the year for our local animal shelter. While some pet owners are out enjoying the fireworks, their dogs are busy chewing their way through fences, breaking out of the house through a window, and running, running, running, trying desperately to escape the very loud, very […]