Can They Train A Dog To Help People With Conscience Damage?

This just makes me angry. I saw this a couple of days ago, but I was either running out the door or too tired to try and post about it. This whole thing started when a Hamilton woman wanted to find a trainer to train her family dog to perform some kind of tasks for …

Trixie Waggles Onto the Blog Again

I’ve been meaning to write a little dog post for a while now. The apartment building is getting a whole new carpet on all the floors. So, they have completely ripped up the carpet in the hall. They’re fast for sure, they’re already laying underpad today. I wasn’t sure what Trix would think of the …

It All Started With A Little Search

You never know what will start a cascade of thoughts. It can be as simple as something I saw in our tracker. Something like this: 16 Jan, Sat, 04:19:33Google:dog wearing gloves Gloves? Like boots? Did they mean boots? I guess boots kind of look like mitts, mitts with soles on them. But do they really …

When On The Range, It’s Good To Know Where Home Is

Derrick Thomas Alger needs to cut back on the booze just a touch. I have a feeling, if he wasn’t drunk, he wouldn’t be wandering around in shorts and a cowboy hat and boots threatening cabbies with guns, coming into the wrong house, and then threatening to kill the family’s dog…and then asking who the …

This Makes Me Angry Beyond Words

This story of 10 and 12-year-old boys arrested in a dogfighting case is disturbing enough. But what makes me the most angry is the mother’s attitude about the whole thing. The boys’ mother told the deputy they needed to go to jail. “I’m sick of them two stealing dogs, bikes and having all the neighborhood …

Trixie Wants To Have A Word Or Six.

Ha ha, I have the keyboard. I have the keyboard I have the keyboard. Hmmm I wonder if I can get this done in time for kibble. It’s almost time to eat that yummy kibble kibble kibble stuff. Speaking of kibble, I’ve noticed I get a bit less kibble than I used to. Carin said …

The Long-Awaited, Long Holiday Post

I always write a post about the holidays. It’s just a matter of when. I’m crazy, and want to get through the easy stuff first before I sit down and crank out a giant epic. But it seems writing the holiday epic has become the thing I’ve done since Steve and Matt let me come …