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For those of you who have not been following along on Facebook and Twitter, where I tend to be most present online these days: we have a third dog living with us at the moment.


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It would be nice, for once, to enjoy the thaw ( Read more... )

For as-yet undetermined reasons, Oracle has recently become scared of our kitchen, a room she previously passed through with no trepidation at all ( Read more... )

We were all mistaken, it seems.

When we adopted Cassie, the tag above her cage at the Anti-Cruelty Society had her listed as a one year-old Pointer mix. We accepted that she was part Pointer, although after several months of dealing with a very rambunctious puppy with paws too large for her frame, we completely rejected Anti-Cruelty's contention ( Read more... )

Dana and I had begun to suspect that when the folks at the Anti-Cruelty Society had told us Cassie was a one year-old, they had simply rounded up to the nearest whole number instead of telling us that maybe she was only six months old. That is, not a dog, but a puppyTaking care of a puppy is an skill set similar to that of taking care of a dog, ( Read more... )

In some weird fit of mathematical whimsy, combined with a concern that our youngest family member was being left alone far too often, the ratio of humans to dogs in the household has been changed from 2:1 to 2:2.


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If the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the road to awkwardness is paved with well-meaning conversation ( Read more... )

Three photos of our dog, who after three weeks seems to have adjusted well enough, for the most part, to realize that she's in a very loving environment that will probably not be going away anytime soon. Most of her time is spent sleeping, broken up by walks and mealtimes and the occasional game of fetch, which usually only lasts as long as she ( Read more... )