Life with dogs... The twin puppies we adopted ate and ate and ate. And pooed and pooed and pooed. Six months later, they'd grown to 50 and 50 pounds! Plus, I'd learned nothing about training them. One day... As usual, for 10 deafening minutes, they barked at the mailman across the street. Later that day,… Continue reading Part 3: What Has Your Pet Taught You? by da-AL
Deciding... My husband and I agreed to adopt a dog. This was followed by months of discussion. What type of dog would harmonize best with our two cats? We settled on these dog requirements: It should be a puppy, so that it would learn early on to respect cats. It shouldn’t mature to larger than… Continue reading Part 2: What Has Your Pet Taught You? by da-AL
Live long enough, and we're bound to encounter challenges. With the help of a friend, Debbie Centeno (who runs this blog and this blog) uses her grief to help others... I never knew how much a person could grow to love their pet. I wasn’t raised with pets, other than fish in a tank. And,… Continue reading Guest Blog Post: The Little Guy Who Stole Our Hearts by Debbie Centeno
Warning: reality check, then Cuteness Overload! It’s not for nothing that the human star of the glorious pig movie, “Babe,” went vegetarian…
If you were hanging out in the Kitchen’s Garden Lounge of Comments yesterday you would have read that a piglet was lost in that first cold night. I found him dead on Poppy’s side of their quarters. Being the Lady Pig Farmer is not always easy. All our focus these first few days is keeping the babies safe and well fed. This task feels mutually exclusive at times.
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I don't know of any creature who's better at relaxing than cats -- do you?...
