Monday, January 24, 2011
Poor Toby
My granddog, Toby has been having some seizures and the vet has put him on phenobarbital. According to my son's vet schnauzers and collies are particularly prone to them. If anyone has any experience, let us know. By the way, I have another "Expert" article coming out next week on Ezine about restraining dogs in the car. If you want a jump on it, check out my car dog restraint harnesses. Every dog should be restrained in the car and at under $13.00 for a small dog, it is a bargain.
Saturday, January 15, 2011
How Pets Helped Humans Through History
Read my story about how dogs (and cats) have helped humans become what we are today. http://goarticles.com/article/Humans-Helped-by-Dogs-Through-History/4016757/
Sunday, January 9, 2011
ASPCA | Victory: President Signs New Crush Act into Law
Did you know that until December 2010 Animals were really not protected the way pet lovers thought they were. Read this article from the ASPCA.
ASPCA | Victory: President Signs New Crush Act into Law
ASPCA | Victory: President Signs New Crush Act into Law
Friday, January 7, 2011
Please read and distribute this story. The truth must be told.
Check out my article on Buzzle.com. It is the true story of the Vicktory Dogs.
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-real-vicktory-saving-the-michael-vick-dogs.html
http://www.buzzle.com/articles/the-real-vicktory-saving-the-michael-vick-dogs.html
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Impressing the Mother-in-Law to Be
This is really part two of my discussion of Everything I learned About Difficult People I learned from My Cat. That was a story in the December 2010 blog about Jezabel, my cat when I was growing up. Jezabel left us. I don't mean she died, she just left us. She would wander and then come home after a while, one time, she just didn't come home.
We found out that the lady who had the Siamese who had been "caught" by the neighborhood black alley cat who were Jezabel's parents had a new litter. This was seven years after we got Jez and our new baby girl was named Bathsheba (get the biblical reference?). We had Bathsheba for about two weeks when we took her for her first vet visit and found out that Bathsheba was a boy. We were told it was a girl and had never looked. So we renamed him David. (David and Bathsheba, get it?). I was fifteen, and when I went away to college two years later I missed him very much.
Forward now to my age 22. I fell in love with the most wonderful man. So wonderful that we have been married for 38 years. His name is David. He is a little shy, so meeting my parents for the first time was stressful to him. My dad, did not help by calling him Garry, my fiance of the year before, but my mother was very cool. Until......
We arrived about an hour before dinner, and my mother being a great cook, had lots of delicious smells coming from the kitchen. While everything was finishing up, and the table had been set in the dining room, we settled down to the inevitable questions from my parents to David: what was his major, did he play sports, etc. My mother then asked me to feed the cat by saying, "Kay, feed David in the kitchen before the rest of us sit down to eat." Sheepishly, David, the boyfriend, got up to be fed in the kitchen. We all had a great laugh over that one. But more was to follow after dinner.
The cat was not allowed on the couch, but with my sweetheart and me sitting side by side, the cat, David, decided to jump up next to me. "David, get off that couch," yelled my mother, and my boyfriend, David, obediently jumped up. We had a masterful laugh about that one. It became our first real family bonding story, and my mother used to love telling it. My husband tells it the best. But we all bonded. My parents loved David, and after a difficult year when we moved north to Ohio, and I wanted to come home with the two babies, my mother said, "stay with David. After all, if you try to divorce him, I will testify in court on his behalf." Fair enough.
I always loved my cat, David, and I still love my sweetheart, David.
We found out that the lady who had the Siamese who had been "caught" by the neighborhood black alley cat who were Jezabel's parents had a new litter. This was seven years after we got Jez and our new baby girl was named Bathsheba (get the biblical reference?). We had Bathsheba for about two weeks when we took her for her first vet visit and found out that Bathsheba was a boy. We were told it was a girl and had never looked. So we renamed him David. (David and Bathsheba, get it?). I was fifteen, and when I went away to college two years later I missed him very much.
Forward now to my age 22. I fell in love with the most wonderful man. So wonderful that we have been married for 38 years. His name is David. He is a little shy, so meeting my parents for the first time was stressful to him. My dad, did not help by calling him Garry, my fiance of the year before, but my mother was very cool. Until......
We arrived about an hour before dinner, and my mother being a great cook, had lots of delicious smells coming from the kitchen. While everything was finishing up, and the table had been set in the dining room, we settled down to the inevitable questions from my parents to David: what was his major, did he play sports, etc. My mother then asked me to feed the cat by saying, "Kay, feed David in the kitchen before the rest of us sit down to eat." Sheepishly, David, the boyfriend, got up to be fed in the kitchen. We all had a great laugh over that one. But more was to follow after dinner.
The cat was not allowed on the couch, but with my sweetheart and me sitting side by side, the cat, David, decided to jump up next to me. "David, get off that couch," yelled my mother, and my boyfriend, David, obediently jumped up. We had a masterful laugh about that one. It became our first real family bonding story, and my mother used to love telling it. My husband tells it the best. But we all bonded. My parents loved David, and after a difficult year when we moved north to Ohio, and I wanted to come home with the two babies, my mother said, "stay with David. After all, if you try to divorce him, I will testify in court on his behalf." Fair enough.
I always loved my cat, David, and I still love my sweetheart, David.
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