A little story for ya...starring Honey Pie The Corgi
October 21, 2009
Honey Pie ate a whole brick of cheese on Sunday. A big brick. One of those bricks you get at Costco. Pounds of it. And it was my fault. I had been eating cheese & crackers on the couch, cutting small slices of cheesy goodness as I went along munching it but became distracted, left the couch and left the cheese within eyeline of one …Read more »
Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Dog, Parrot...Snake
July 22, 2009
If two dogs are easier than one and three dogs equal anarchy, what will life with three dogs, one cat, a bilingual parrot and a snake mean for me? That’s the unfamiliar, sometimes scary question I find myself pondering as I prepare to get married. Yes, fellow brides to be, you may be laboring over white or cream, where to …Read more »
On the Road…with Dogs: Part I
July 15, 2009
Now if your experience with road trips and dogs is anything like mine, you’ve have had both good ones and bad ones, but mostly bad ones. There are many reasons for that, but usually it’s down to doubling the time the trip should take to stop, play, go to the bathroom and drink water, dogs competing with over-packed luggage for …Read more »
Yes world, my pets ARE precious snowflakes
July 8, 2009
I frequently walk into a room only to notice Fat Louie sitting in very weird places and gazing intently at nothing. I woke up early this morning to find him having a stare down with an ottoman. More and more it seems like otherwise rational people are coming to believe their pets’ quirks make them truly unique, distinctive, totally different from …Read more »
The Weekend at Cosmo in Review
May 27, 2009
I know dog parks. I've sampled so many across the country, including California's Dog Beach, which I dream of taking Ollie and Honey Pie to. When I bought my first home, I searched the area within a one-mile radius of my favorite (at that time) dog park here in Arizona and landed …Read more »
Cat's Favorite Things
May 27, 2009
There's a lot of talk around here about the things we love as Pet Parents, what with the Favorite Things Sale going on in PetSmart stores right now. The event has had me pondering my own favorite things;asking myself, if I had to choose, which of those small ingenuities are so important …Read more »
A Brat Pack Update--in Bullet Format
May 27, 2009
It's random update Thursday! * Ollie's birthday party exceeded all of my expectations. We had about 20 four-legged friends show up. We had one puker and one fight real signs of a good party in my book. * The coupler was an interesting experiment. My final conclusion is that it's …Read more »
So I'm at the Doctor's Office Getting a Flu Shot...
May 27, 2009
Really, it's not the start of a bad joke, it's a true story, that involves The Pack. Sorta. There I sat, perched atop my physician's exam room table, sleeve rolled up to my shoulder, nurse poised and ready to inject my shoulder with anti-flu goodness when I turned and asked how she was …Read more »
Tales of a Failed Foster
May 27, 2009
Four weeks ago, at the close of a PetSmart adoption event, I arrived to pick up my latest foster dog. The rescue group's foster coordinator motioned toward a cowering little red and white dog with the face of a Jack Russell and the body of a Bassett. "Oh gosh," I said. "That's …Read more »
A Sad Day for The Pack
May 27, 2009
One lesser known, but no less important member of The Pack is my teddy bear hamster, Butternut Squash. Of all my pets, I probably spent the most time with Butternut, who lived in my cubicle for the past two years. Until last Friday. See, I'd recently begun to notice that Butternut's …Read more »
