Jack the Dog: Calming Signals and Anthropomorphism
Maybe there's a rule that if you have dogs long enough, you eventually end up with a terrier even if...
Photo & Poem: Calendar
Tufting the Corgi Do I need a sweater? The evening air has cooled thinner, the time on the clock doesn’t...
Photo Challenge and Poem: (Her) Favorite Place
There was a message on my phone. My dog was ready to come home, they said. It was just...
Photo Challenge & Poem: (bitter)Sweet
Volcanic walls hedge the black-silver sand all the way to the sea's edge. Waves clap the shore, misty clouds rising...
Sleeping With The Wrong Dog
Warning: This is not an upbeat rescue story. It's a sad story with a sad ending. Proceed with caution. Or...
Photo Challenge: Heritage (with Doghair)
The dog watches me sit at the edge of the bed pulling a frayed t-shirt over my head, shoulders rounded...
Photo Challenge: Earth
Earthling, born of indelible green, translucent waters, boundless clouds and sky, and tasked in each small life to be curious...
Photo Challenge: Path
when it all looks obscure she leads not lost not found but traveling beyond the map so follow close your...
Photo Challenge: New Horizon
inconvenience be damned the next improbable howl of resilience is just beyond the word yes so just yes ... Anna...
The Passion to Punish
First, last, and always, this is the truth about communication with animals: Punishment is the lowest form of expression. A...
Rescue: Training the Things We Take for Granted
Lethargy. Sweltering with a non-specific stickiness. Flies. More flies. Dilly-dallying. These are the wilting Dog Days of Summer, named for...
Dogs and the Things We Cannot Change
Are you the kind of person who gets nervous in a new place if there isn't a dog to talk...
When Nothing Less than Havarti Will Do
I've been getting the stink eye from Preacher Man. It happens. He's a member of the Long and Low Club,...
Singleton Dreams: Shedding in the Bedding
These are the dog days of summer--long and extreme. Not the kindest summer, either. My extended horse family has suffered...
Buying the Right to Make a Correction.
She's Tomboy. I don't write about her often enough; she's a little more serious than my corgi men. She's a...
Walter on Positive Pet/Vet Training.
Thanks for not mentioning my big nasty scab. I woke up last week with a corgi toenail inside my ear....
Weekly Photo Challenge: Rule of Thirds
The Rule of Thirds is a design term used when an object is not centered, but instead has visual tension...
Why I Like Bad-Dogs.
I wasn't always this way. There was a time when I was a serial Golden Retriever owner. I wanted a...
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