When I was a teenager, I made money baby-sitting, to which I attribute the fact that I never had any desire to have kids. One of the things that I was not good at was diapering babies. Or having the diapers stay on. Even the ones with the adhesive tapes would fall off. Luckily my [...]
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This is National Dog Bite Prevention Week, which means now’s a good time to review safety around dogs, because even normally friendly dogs can and do bite in certain circumstances.
Our friends at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine have some helpful words of wisdom from veterinary behaviorist Dr. Melissa Bain, but my favorite item [...]
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Later today, I’ll be doing a Skype interview with what may turn out to be my toughest audience yet: a class of fourth-graders.
How this came about is an interesting story, and one I thought I’d let the fourth-grader who made it happen tell you. From my new friend, Hannah in Sedona — and this is [...]
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A dog who suffers from thunderstorm phobia can break your heart. I know this first hand, because even before we can hear the first sounds of a storm my normally brave and bold little Quixote shakes uncontrollably and pants at the rate of about 300 times per minute. My mother-in-law Valdie’s PekaShitz (Pekingese-Shih Tzu [...]
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I usually think that the whole “mysterious cat” thing is blown way out of proportion, undoubtedly by the sophisticated PR machine behind the cat as a measure to keep us endlessly fascinated without asking anything of them as we do with our dogs.
And then there’s Jezebel, who presented me with a feline mystery I never [...]
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