I love dogs. I love Capital Area Humane Society (CAHS), the shelter that housed our hounds before we adopted them. And I REALLY love guerrilla marketing. Naturally, I’m delighted to introduce you to the newest adoption and awareness campaign at CAHS: Collar Quest. Volunteers and staff at CAHS are dropping 50 special signs with...
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They say moving is one of the most stressful life events along with death, divorce, and illness. Most of the family is holding up well but the old hound dog Devie is a mess. Alex insists that I tell you I am the second in line for ‘most stressed’. First we took away her...
Read more →As I was thinking about my life and readers, I considered ‘how about something for the four legged beasts?’ My dogs keep me company on walks in the alleys, bark at strangers, and eat cooking leavings off the kitchen floor. They also eat my tomatoes, birthday cakes, and everything else passable. They are, in...
Read more →Did you know that black dogs and cats are more likely to linger in animal shelters than any other color of pet? The problem is so pervasive that shelters have given the syndrome an acronym, BBD, for Big Black Dog. BBDs persist in shelters despite being personable, house trained, and gentle. The animal shelter...
Read more →Devie the big hound is adapting wonderfully to life with a single eye. At our dinner party Wednesday, everyone commented on what a different dog she is now. She is calmer, quieter, and seems happier than any time in the last year. Guilt creeps in when I think that perhaps her bum eye was...
Read more →It has been hot here in Ohio. And humid. A friend described the recent weather as “walking around inside someone’s mouth.” Indeed. Instead of enduring the wicked weather during the afternoon heat, I searched for indoor activities to occupy Lil’s boundless energy in the relative cool of the air conditioning. A few days ago,...
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