An Amateur's Musings on Dogs and Their People
Posted in Silly Stuff on Sep 30th, 2011
They share our homes. But what do we really know about our two best animal friends–Cats and Dogs? [Source: Online Schools for Neatorama.com] Update: Thank you to my latest donors to the March for the Animals fundraiser for the Tompkins County SPCA. Glenda in memory of Sandy and in honor of her “grand dogs” [...]
Posted in Wordless Wednesday on Sep 28th, 2011
Harley – American Eskimo/Pug Mix Tompkins County SPCA March for the Animals Saturday, Honey and I will be marching to support the work of the Tompkins County SPCA, the first open-admission, no-kill animal shelter in the [...]
Posted in The Puppiness Project on Sep 27th, 2011
Gretchen Rubin wrote in The Happiness Project about the year she spent “test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy.” The Puppiness Project is my attempt to learn the same from Honey, my Golden Retriever. Solving Puppy Problems (that aren’t problems) The growling sounds [...]
Posted in Reflections on Sep 24th, 2011
Pamela the rainmaker When I was 20 years old, I finished my last six credits of college by studying Renaissance and Reformation history in Europe. We traveled to various sites throughout the continent, camping and staying in youth hostels to keep the price down. We arrived at our first campsite to find the Rhine had [...]
Posted in Product Review on Sep 23rd, 2011
How do you decide to buy a dog product? Lately I’ve been thinking about dog product reviews. What do you need to know about a product to decide if it’s worth spending money on? A $20 elk antler is way too much to spend if your dog has no interest in it. Let’s not even [...]
Posted in Silly Stuff on Sep 22nd, 2011
Some A-musings on Puppy Love If we love puppies because they’re furry, why don’t more of us want to date men with hairy backs? If we love puppy breath so much, why do we freak out that some people eat dogs? If we love puppies because they have drooly jowls, why don’t our voices get [...]
Posted in Wordless Wednesday on Sep 21st, 2011
Mya Although it’s Wordless Wednesday, I have to say a few words about tripod dogs. While we were trying to socialize Shadow to other dogs, we joined a play group at the Tompkins County SPCA. One family brought their newly-adopted tripod dog to give him a chance to play with other dogs in a [...]
Posted in Responsible Dog Guardians on Sep 20th, 2011
I love dogs. But sometimes they frighten me. And I felt a shiver of fear as I walked down the narrow corridor with dogs barking and lunging on each side. Pet adoption shouldn’t be scary Let’s just say it wasn’t the happiest way to look for a dog to adopt. And the dogs were so [...]
Posted in Reflections, The Puppiness Project on Sep 19th, 2011
Gretchen Rubin wrote in The Happiness Project about the year she spent “test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy.” The Puppiness Project is my attempt to learn the same from Honey, my Golden Retriever. Does your dog let you make mistakes? If you’ve [...]
Posted in Reflections on Sep 17th, 2011
For several months I’ve been pondering a post on the tensions that flare up between people who agree on the ends but not the means of achieving social progress. Idealists battling realists I’ve been thinking about Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. And about Dietrich Bonhoeffer and resistance members who outwardly complied with the government while subverting it in private. And I’ve been [...]
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