Sometimes, when I walk by a barking dog waiting outside a grocery store, I’ll stop and keep him or her company until the owner comes out. It calms the dog’s anxiety down and allows the owner to shop in peace without worrying about annoying everyone in the neighborhood with their barking dog. A couple of […]
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We kept ReeRee for Jasmine’s sake. Jasmine loved her obsessively from the moment she met her. Ree Ree helped Jasmine to forget all her fears. When they were together Jasmine no longer refused to go down stairs, or get out of the car at the beach, walk down a city sidewalk, frozen with fear. With […]
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Because of her upbringing, ReeRee can go from zero to 1000 on the anxiety scale within seconds. Over reacting is her thing. When she’s stressed she growls, lunges, nibbles and then frantically kisses where she’s nibbled, begging you to forgive her. Being restricted in any way triggers her anxiety and she can lash out, so […]
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The police would always come up behind me and quietly stand in my blind spot, waiting for me to notice them. I’d follow my suddenly silent pie customer’s eyes and turn to find them standing there. They were always very polite and kind but it would kill my business for that night. My line of […]
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I am officially announcing a new holiday to replace the current single shaming, romance pressuring, limp rose, Hallmark invented holiday of Valentine’s Day. I present to you: Dogentine’s Day! No love is as pure as the love between a dog and their person. My first Dogentine was dropped off at my apartment by a friend. […]
Read more »Remember back in the 80’s when we’d settle around the TV to watch Miami Vice on a Saturday night and every time there was a drug dealer on there’d also be ferociously barking Rottweilers and German Shepherds? And everyone was like, omg, Rotweilers and German Shepherds are so scary, only drug dealers have them! Well […]
Read more »Jasmine looks adorable no matter what, obviously, but I’m going to be honest with you—she does have a tendency to over accessorize. This is her every day out and about style. She’s kind of a safety first type of dog so most of her outfit is for her own protection. Like, she has one collar […]
Read more »Pitbulls were once known as the Nanny Dog and the dog of the working class people. It was the most common type of dog in America. The pitbull’s warm and sensitive nature and interest in pleasing their owner is why they are beloved pets but it is also why they are taken advantage of by […]
Read more »Fact: Senior dogs are the best dogs. They know the routine, how to communicate, how to act. They’re polite, gentle, disciplined and calm. It seems like they can read your mind, they’re always prepared for your every move. They don’t bound and spring through the world anymore, but who cares? Neither do older humans. […]
Read more »Because my dog ReRe is an innovative go getter she made the decision early on that when she has to poop at the beach it’s best to wade knee deep into the ocean and let the waves immediately dissolve and wash away any evidence of it. This makes people furious. They like to lecture me […]
Read more »I was waiting at a stop light one afternoon when a big hawk dropped out of the sky in front of my windshield. He snatched a pigeon out of mid air and landed with it on the roof of a car next to me. The light turned green and I drove away still watching the […]
Read more »My valentine has eight legs, two heads, floppy ears, velvet skin and drools when presented with string cheese. My valentine gets farty after eating eggs, is not a reader and can’t hold down a job. But my valentine is hopelessly devoted, has endless kisses and never judges me. My valentine loves car rides, long walks […]
Read more »Ollie is one of my favorite dogs ever. He’s like a prickly uncle to my dogs, Jasmine and Ree Ree. I’m not going to lie, he’s grumpy and also mean to all dogs that aren’t mine. He will still, as a senior, bark and growl at dogs until his back legs give out. But over […]
Read more »don’t know if there’s a god and I’m not at all religious but this thing happened to me a couple of years ago that made me a little bit more of a believer. I’m going to preface this story by admitting that, at the time of the incident, I was listening to a lot of […]
Read more »The only thing worse than losing our beautiful, brave, perfect dog Dee Dee after 17 years was living in a still, dogless apartment afterwards. The very soul of our home had disappeared. The grief was overwhelming and paralyzing, but the void of having no dog at all was unbearable. I started trolling pitbull rescue websites […]
Read more »When my first dog Dee Dee was very old and couldn’t walk far, I would take her to the beach every day. She would totter along until she didn’t feel like it anymore. Then we’d sit together for an hour or so in the sand. She’d lift her face to the sun and sniff the […]
Read more »Well, as usual Saill’s been up to interesting stuff on her ranch like creating watering systems for her trees, watching cows and saving democracy with her voting research which you can see here: www.votesleuth.org. But the funnest thing she’s been up to is she adopted Frankie from the Petaluma Animal Shelter! He is the cutest, […]
Read more »The professors are now accepting applications for their summer session. They will be offering the following classes: “Pooping Indoors, it’s not just for rainy days.” And, “Commandering the Couch”. Also, “Strategic Napping, More Places, More Often” and finally, they will be offering a new class in cooperation with Whiskers the cat called “Pee Blame, No […]
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