The fact that we overuse drugs in our society is widely recognized. In a similar vein, vaccinations and their frequency are becoming more and more controversial, partially due to the carriers used in formulation (mercury, for one) but also due to their inherent properties. Many […]

It’s after lunch and I’m trudging out to the barn where my car is parked, Bear and Charlie at my side, the cold wind blowing through our hair, the pocket of my parka stuffed with a package of out-of-date, slimy weiners. My intent is to […]

Isn’t there a saying: “God is in the little things.”? I don’t know where this came from, but I believe it’s true. I have rethought, rewritten, and edited this post many times because I don’t want to offend anyone. I have friends  who run the […]

Shortly after Punkin, a beautiful Shar Pei, passed she told us she definitely wanted to return, as another female  Shar Pei, same color, with, of course, the same people. She had a job to do that she had not been able to finish in her […]

Is that even possible? Hamilton says it’s not only possible, it simply IS. Over the years I have had many human clients who, upon the loss of their beloved animal, felt they could not go on. They could not function. They weren’t eating or sleeping […]

I’m talking about mi Corazon (registered name “Ruby Rose Bud”). I call her Corazon (Spanish for “heart”) instead of Ruby now because she has a heart as big as Texas.  And I should know because I’m from Texas. Really.  Corazon tries her hardest to do […]

When the plea went out from our local shelter recently for help with the dozens of tiny, motherless kittens who needed fostering, I finally ponied up and jumped in full force. When I went to pick up a few of the babies and saw how […]

Heels down!!!   Head up!!!  Soft hands!!!!   Toes forward!!!   No, no, NO — MAKE him do what you want, don’t just ASK!!! This is what you’re hearing and trying to make sense of . . . but meanwhile you’re just going in circles on some […]

I was raised in a family of hunters. Mostly we ate what we killed, but there were those requisite trophies hanging on the wall and lying on the floor too. My grandfather had elk and deer heads hanging all over his house and a bear […]

You’ve heard about people who hoard animals. It’s a terrible syndrome. Cats living in cardboard boxes, houses that smell so bad you can’t go in them, hoarders who think they are the only people in the world who can do right by their 67 dogs. […]