Bringing your new puppy home marks the beginning of a long and rewarding company. Just as you and other members of your household must adjust to life with the new puppy, the puppy must adjust to his role in a new family. The routine and habits your puppy develops at this crucial early stage can…

Everyone has intuition, an inherent ability to obtain extended information about people, places, things, and situations, without using logic, the physical senses, or prior knowledge. At different times in your life, your intuition whispers and shouts warnings about harmful actions and dangerous events, through seven intuitive senses: Intuitive vision is the ability to see images…

Pay dirt by Rita Mae Brown Category: Fiction / Mystery 249 pages; ISBN: 0553572369 Several of Rita Mae Brown’s fans, as they waited in line to greet her at the Oxford Bookstore in Atlanta during her Riding Shotgun tour, noted aloud the conspicuous absence of the best-selling author’s partner and collaborator, feline author Sneaky Pie….

You may think that throwing away the carrot peels and apple kernels in the trash has no effect as they will break down anyway. But even natural plant matter will last for years when sealed in a plastic bag and dumped in a landfill. As a great example of community responsibility, the City of Seattle,…

Is there a way to nominate a person for sainthood? I’m serious. My husband deserves the title and it should be made official. You see, this week he moved his mother out of her 35-year-old apartment. Under normal circumstances, moving is very stressful. Moving a person who, even when he was young, had the title…

The Catacombs of Cibara Left The forbidden planet The planet Cibara is a little beyond the ice sheet of the asteroid moon, which is the one that orbits the cold planet called Moiromma, a little beyond our solar system, if it is called Pluto, the last planet within our Solar system. Malsi, High Priest of…

Burglary problems are one of the reasons Italian Greyhounds turn to ransom. When I got my first Italian Greyhound almost a decade ago, it was so good that I had no idea Iggy’s other parents were accident-pulling their hair around the house. However, when I got involved with IG Rescue and adopted a male Iggy,…

The universe is collapsing. The love child of infinity and time has become the bastard of another failed marriage, lopsided and withered, troubled and empty. At eighteen, I decided to try to lighten the weight of this apocalyptic and paraplegic kind of cowboy wisdom and hit the streets in search of redemption. There was news…

It may seem like one moment your cat loves you and allows you to gently pet him, and then the next the cat turns around and scratches you. Why the hell would your cat do such a thing? Well, it turns out, nature. Scratching is a natural instinct for a cat. Even when a cat…

“It was easier to raise my son than to raise this puppy.” I have heard that statement more than once. Working with many puppy owners each year, I can see the frustration on the faces of many of them. Bringing a new puppy home can be a lot of work. Your puppy does not know…