So you know I've been angling towards getting a dog. Yesterday Robin, for whom I need a better title than "the mother of my son-in-law" or "my daughter's mother-in-law" took me to the County Animal Shelter and we looked at the dogs and I saw a dog with the characteristics I want so I put down the money and tomorrow she's available.

It was not love ( Read more... )

I have just been turned down for adopting a puppy. The given reason is that my application didn't convince them I would give the dog enough outlet for his energy. I listed dog walks, play at home, and daily visits to the dog park. I don't think they know what happens in the dog park. Young dogs there play very very hard ( Read more... )

( Probably boring. Just daily stuff. )

I never thought much about "The Pied Piper of Hamelin," but it seems there really is a historical mystery that it addresses: the town chronicles of Hameln begin in 1384 with the statement "It is a hundred years since our children left ( Read more... )

No, not healthcare related things at the moment.
( TMI to follow: trying an lj-cut in rich text editor because I fail at it in html )

So for the next two and a half weeks I have not one, but two extra dogs. They are really large and bumptious extra dogs. Truffle adores them but they wear her out just by existing. She gets really excited and barks and runs around with her tail wagging and her ears laid back and then she pants and collapses. I have got her on the other stress ( Read more... )

A month or so ago we went on down to the best little winery, River Run, out on Rogge Road in Watsonville. For the first time we took Truffle, because we thought it would be a good outing for her. And it was. The dog there -- whose name I remembered until just this minute -- was a little grouchy with her at first, becaause she is an elderly dog ( Read more... )

( it will be Friday when most of you look at it, if you do look at it, that is )