Author Archives: Edie Jarolim

The Search and Rescue Dogs of 911

Get out an entire box of tissues for this one. Ground Zero has become very political this year. Dogs often have lessons to teach us, and that’s certainly true here. These dogs searched through the rubble for everyone, no matter what race or religion, and didn’t judge the victims by the actions of a few. [...]
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Goodbye to all that – for now

I’ve been a bit distracted, trying to finish up a big project — I finally sent it off this morning — which is why I accidentally pushed “publish” on the post titled “My Year of Bookselling: Five Things I Did Right” when it was in a very rough draft stage. My apologies to those who [...]
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Friday Focus: It’s pet transport, not travel

As a result of the helpful comments I received for the questions I posed on Sunday about pets too large to fly in airline cabins I learned the following: No one flies their pet via air cargo or in a baggage hold for a vacation. The need to transport a pet for a move is [...]
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Denver dreaming: Take me to your BlogPaws pets

Getting ready for the BlogPaws West conference involves finishing up a bunch of assignments that are not — shockingly enough — dog related. And I’m not going to be taking Frankie along to Denver because he’s not exactly a road warrior and the idea of dealing with needles and insulin and a carrier… well, I [...]
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Training Tuesday: A BAT Landmark

Frankie and I haven’t done much Behavior Adjustment Training (BAT) with Crystal Saling and her wonder dog decoy, Winnie, lately because it’s either been raining — which means scary thunder and lightning — or too hot to spend much time outside. But we managed a get together this past Sunday and saw quite a bit [...]
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Friday Focus: Pet Air Travel, Steerage Edition

A few weeks ago, I discussed pets traveling in airline cabins, exploring in particular the effect of pet allergies on other passengers. This week, as I was booking my seat assignment for BlogPaws West, I started wondering about pets that travel as baggage. Frontier Airlines, my carrier to Denver, writes of its pet policy: Your [...]
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Versatile & Lovely Blogger Awards, Pet Edition

Confession: In the past year and a half, I received a Versatile Blogger award from Jana Rade of DawgBusiness and one from Sharon Castellanos of Grouchy Puppy, as well as a Lovely Blog award from Vera Marie Badertscher of A Traveler’s Library. And I haven’t passed them along. That is VBBK (Very Bad Blog Karma). [...]
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Fire Hydrants: An Ode

I occasionally miss things about New York that I never would have anticipated, including weird urban sights like smoke rising from manhole covers in the middle of the street. Frankie would hate the city, I suspect — too many people, too much noise — and he’s not a competitive urinater.  He either squats or lifts [...]
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Why Girls Who Own Dogs Make Better Wives: Marriage Advice From an Unmarried Dog Trainer

Today I’m turning my blog over to Dino Dogan, the titular Unmarried Dog Trainer. I first met Dino on Twitter a few months ago, when he started retweeting my tweets so often that I couldn’t fail to pay attention to him.  He then wrote a post on seven bloggers he admired, and included yours truly, [...]
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Friday Focus: Of Pet Allergies and Airplanes

After posing the question on Sunday, How do pet allergies work? — geared towards determining how they affect travel — and  checking into  airplane policies, I thought I was going to have some definitive data to present. Instead, I was left with more questions and: – Awe at the commitment that several people with allergies [...]
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