Author Archives: Edie Jarolim

Dogs & Psychoanalysis, Part 2: The Barking Cure

By Edie Jarolim | Published: February 6, 2012
Ok, so the title of this post is a tad deceptive: Sigmund Freud’s talking cure never went entirely to the dogs. (Update: And, as has been called to my attention, it’s also a tad confusing:  this post has nothing to do with curing barking in dogs.) But the father of psychoanalysis’s close relationship with the [...]
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Shelter Medicine: Veterinary Challenges & Solutions

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 30, 2012
I recently did a series about how the Shelter Pet Project is working to change the image of shelter pets. As discussed  in the final installment — see Shelter Pet Project Pt. 3: The Future –  that’s only one part of the equation: In order to promote adoption and end the killing of healthy animals, [...]
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Dogs & Psychoanalysis, Part 1: Sigmund Freud’s Case of Puppy Love

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 24, 2012
You knew it was just a question of time, didn’t you, before I found a way to connect my two interests, my current and future projects? You’d be amazed at how easy it was! To recap: I recently discovered that my great uncle, Siegmund Kornmehl, had a kosher butcher shop in the same apartment building [...]
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The Long Good-Bye: Animal Cafe

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 20, 2012
As I announced at the end of this year’s Pet Blogger Challenge, I’m going to be less active than I have been on this blog because of an exciting new project. And I’m giving up my extracurricular blogging activities. Last Thursday I handed over the reins of the Pet Travel Book Club to Pamela Webster [...]
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Join the Internet Strike on 1/18 to Prevent Scary Web-Censoring Laws from Being Passed

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 17, 2012
A couple of (particularly) scary laws have been introduced in Congress that will affect all of us. The one in the House of Representatives is called the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA); the one in the Senate is called Protect IP Act (PIPA). Both are ostensibly designed to help copyright holders like musicians and filmmakers [...]
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The Shelter Pet Project, Pt. 3: The Future

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 15, 2012
“Our goal is to end the euthanasia of dogs and cats in America that are healthy and treatable. To do that we have to place 2.7 million more dogs and cats this year than we did in the previous year: that means 4 more adoptions per week per animal organization in the United States. We [...]
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Dog Walks Man: A Review (Wherein I Pass the Pet Travel Book Club Torch)

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 12, 2012
When I first got Frankie, I had fantasies about taking long contemplative walks with him, during which I would ponder my surroundings and the nature of the universe and after which I would transfer my deep thoughts to paper. Aside from the fact that Frankie has little, short legs and follows close behind me rather [...]
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Will My Blog Hate Me? Pet Blogger Challenge 2012

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 9, 2012
It’s what you’ve been waiting for — the Pet Blogger Challenge! If you’re here and you’ve already written a post answering the questions that Amy of GoPetFriendly.com and I posted on December 20, simply add the url to the Linky tool, below. If you haven’t written it yet but are inspired to do so, get [...]
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A Shift in Perspective: Learning from Duh! Moments

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 6, 2012
We’re less than a week into the New Year and I’ve already had three major “Duh!” moments, realizations that I’ve been missing the obvious in spectacular ways. I’ve been looking for zebras when there were horses right in front of my face. But rather than slapping myself upside my head in private, I thought I’d [...]
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Pampered Pets on a Budget

By Edie Jarolim | Published: January 5, 2012
I love being able host deserving guest bloggers — emphasis on deserving. What better than to provide good content to my readers without doing much work? I’m especially pleased to share information about a useful new book without having to put in the time doing a book review. I’m never going to be less busy, [...]
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