Posted in animals, dogs, e-scrapbook, life, love, pets on June 15, 2019| 4 Comments »
In honor of our dear old girl, I’m re-publishing this joyous post from a decade ago:
Science has measured and discussed the positive and negative effects of ions for years. I’ve heard that the ocean shore carries a different ionic charge, which can be energizing for many critters, and as proof I give you our Edie girl:
Posted in animals, dogs, pets, walking on June 11, 2019| 5 Comments »
She won’t struggle to get up again. She won’t sprawl on the floor and wait for one of us to reach under her ribcage and pull her upright.
She won’t stagger across the floor as if drunk again, her hind quarters listing to one side as she navigates from rug to rug on the treacherous hardwood floor.
She won’t suffer incontinence any more, or the indignity of a quick rub down of her hind quarters with a rubbing alcohol–soaked washcloth, to clean her up.
She won’t struggle up any stairs again, needing one of us to reach an arm under her ribs to help her galumph laboriously up stairs she used to sprint up in a few bounds. (more…)
Posted in animals, commute, dogs, e-scrapbook, pets, travel on March 22, 2018| 2 Comments »
Over twenty years ago, tired of all the beaters I’d driven for years, I bought a two-year-old Toyota Corolla with 45,000 miles on it for about ten grand. (more…)
Posted in animals, dogs, e-scrapbook, pets on November 17, 2016| 2 Comments »
We had a stray dog in our house for a day. She was a sweetheart … rambunctious, but a good girl.
Posted in animals, dogs, e-scrapbook, pets, walking on April 14, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In January we briefly adopted an Anatolian shepherd named Roxy from the local animal shelter, until she stalked the semi-feral cats living in our garage. Sadly, we had to return her, although she was otherwise a very sweet dog who’d had a rough life, living on the street for several months before the animal shelter was able to capture her.
Tuesday evening I was walking our two dogs around the track at the local high school, when I noticed a guy walking two dogs, a small dark Chihuahua and a large tan dog, outside the school fence, paralleling us. They were on the marina access road so I saw them in glimpses, actually on the other side of the track’s grandstand, as well as a long hedge. But the larger, tan dog looked enough like Roxy to remind me of her.
Posted in animals, dogs, pets on February 17, 2016| 4 Comments »
How do you have a dog and not train her?
I’ll never understand that. However old Nora is—let’s say a year—it’s obvious her prior owners did minimal if no training, and if anything scared the beejabbers out of her. She cringes so fast. Her cringing and eagerness to fit in give me the sense her prior owners scared her. A lot. I wonder if they hit her.
Posted in animals, cats, dogs, pets on February 11, 2016| 1 Comment »
We’ve been lied to again. This is not an 18-month-old dog.
We’re guessing she’s somewhere past half a year old to a year old. She has learned her name, but is struggling with “sit.” “Come” is pretty hit and miss. Really, she is still learning how to learn.
Posted in animals, cats, dogs, pets on January 17, 2016| 2 Comments »
After the troubles with Roxy, our cute little 18-month old Manchester terrier mix is far less drama.
Posted in animals, cats, dogs, pets on January 15, 2016| 3 Comments »
I visit the local animal shelter by myself because, if the missus went with me, we might end up taking a number of the waifs home with us. I went the first week in January and was impressed with several dogs, especially Balto, a large healthy young black German Shepherd pup, but after tending to the infirm Ernie, our days of carrying an elderly dog over 70 pounds up and down the stairs are probably over.
There were several sweet dogs that caught my eye, so I took Mrs. Ombud to the shelter, and we liked an Anatolian shepherd named Roxy. She had been a stray for several months before she was captured in October, and had been nursed back to health. She was a favorite of the animal shelter staff. They guessed she was six years old, and she was shy, but I first met her while she was being walked in the neighborhood, and she was quite cheerful and curious, happy to be out on patrol. So we returned the next day and adopted her.
Posted in animals, dogs, life, love, pets on November 12, 2015| 3 Comments »
He was so attune to me. I’d be watching TV, glance over at him, and he was watching me. It might sound creepy, but it wasn’t.
OmbudsBen 