The latest installment in my continuing series of upbeat adoption videos came to my attention via alert blogger Kristine at Rescued Insanity, who credited another blogger, who credited another blogger …. I stopped there. The source: LA Animal Services. Short, sweet, funny.
Pet Travel: The Book Proposal
When I set out to create a new Pet Travel (Book) Tuesday feature, I promised accountability to keep myself on track with writing. I also promised transparency to elicit feedback on the book’s content — and the process itself — from my readers. In order to achieve the first goal, I’m adding a new subfeature,…
Dog Poop Disposal: The Contest
Eating dog poop is not good for you. Sure, dogs dine on their own doo without ill effect — if you don’t count the screwed up faces and loud EEEEWs of their owners — but we humans don’t have the same feces-digesting ability. Or inclination. I would never eat poop, you protest. Not deliberately. But…
Name that Breed!
We get emails, Frankie and I do. Some offer products (we love those). Some tell touching stories. And some make requests, including this one from Virginia, who wrote: I was hoping I could post a photo of my dog to see if some really swell dog experts could tell us what he is… We have…
Hit the Road With FIDO Friendly’s Car Guy
I’m a big fan of serendipity — and a big fan of the writing of FIDO Friendly’s Carol Bryant. I was excited to discover, a few days after I announced my new Pet Travel Tuesday feature, that the magazine had just published its annual round up of dog-friendly cars, just the type of subject I…
Just One Word
This morning’s email brought in a lovely, inspiring post by one of my favorite bloggers, Dr. V. Titled “I have a dream too,” it details Dr. V’s hopes for helping animals in the future. One line stopped me short, though: I have a dream that we stop putting our heads in the sand as to…
Blog the Change: Tucson’s Cause Four Paws
I had already planned to write about this terrific local charity for today’s Blog the Change for Animals event before the recent tragic shootings in Tucson. Now I’m doubly glad to have the opportunity to showcase one of the many strengths of my adopted hometown: Its devoted and compassionate community of animal lovers. *** In…
Tough Loved by My Blog
First — BIG thanks to all who participated in the Pet Blogger Challenge, which was successful beyond imagining. Kenzo (aka Leo) suggested we do it again next year. I suggested that he organize it. I was bowled over by the diversity of pet bloggers out there, including a cadre of Spanish-speaking cat bloggers, a blogger…
Introducing: Pet Travel (Book) Tuesday
I mentioned in yesterday’s Pet Blogger Challenge teaser that I was introducing a new weekly feature. I’ve tried these out before — Friday Focus and Training Tuesday being prime examples — but they’ve always felt a bit artificial. They were more about trying to structure my blog than about trying to focus my work. This…
Will My Dog Hate Me: The State of the Blog 1/10/11
As promised — 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 last week, simply add the url to the Linky tool, below. If you haven’t written it yet but are inspired to do so, get cracking. You have until 11:59…