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Oct.15.2012
Seriously, this couldn't have come at a better time.
After basking in eighty-one straight shimmering days of Pacific Northwest sunshine, I awakened at five-thirty this morning nearly as grumpy and sore as Jerry Sandusky after an evening horsing around with the prison tickle monster. Things were...
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Oct.01.2012
Boys and their games, dogs playing with chooks and chooks thinking they’re dogs ... that’s life with two dogs, eight chooks and three boys.
Our two dogs are pure love, forever wanting to be with us. Yet both have some sort of obsessive-compulsive disorder. Blue-eyed pooch will not leave you alone...
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Sep.11.2012
FREE KINDLE BOOKS FOR PET LOVERS!
Do you have issues with howling dogs, hissing cats, or the fur-kids pestering each other with their antics? This week, I'm offering these three books FREE on Kindle -- you can also download a free Kindle ap for PC or other applications. Check them out here,...
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Sep.02.2012
For 43 years my husband and I had cats. Suddenly, we didn’t. Our last two were Sunny and Millard, both big and black. Sunny curled around my head at night. Millard stretched across my lap as I sat at the computer—I like to say he wrote half of Incomplete Passes. The two were not related by blood,...
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Aug.05.2012
We got another one of those calls the other day. I’m sure the callers have no idea how much they infuriate me. I volunteer at an animal shelter, and it’s my job to check the voice mail. We get a lot of messages like this:
“I need to place my dog/cat as soon as possible. My husband and I recently...
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Jul.21.2012
Two Dogs are Even Better Than One!
By Bernadette A. Moyer
We have two lovely white pure bred Bichon Frise dogs that we absolutely love and adore. They bring so much joy to our lives and we treat them like our children. For the longest time we had just one. Then when our children started leaving...
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Jul.01.2012
July 1
THE POODLE
Those pointed toes, slender legs carry her across my outstretched mid. What a blessing to be sober long enough to have never done any unseemly or frightful thing which might have caused apprehension in this firefly of a dog. I read until she...
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Jun.29.2012
Some of y’all know that my debut thriller LOST AND FOUND will be published this fall.
You know me--there have to be furry characters in the book, including a German Shepherd service dog that has his own chapters and a Maine Coon cat who saves the day.
AN AUNT searches for her lost nephew—...
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Jun.26.2012
It’s a cold night in Denver, and a homeless woman sits waiting for a kind stranger to drop some change or even a dollar or two in her container. Whatever the amount is, she only hopes it’s enough for a meal to share with her faithful canine companion. A man briefly enjoys the air conditioning at a...
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Jun.11.2012
It’s that time of year again- the weather is warm and the sun is shining! I received a call yesterday from a friend, telling me that her cats have fleas. She said one of her cats occasionally goes outdoors and that must have been how they picked them up. As she continued frantically telling...
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