Cats

They’re almost ready..and so am I!

July 27, 2009
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Oh how fast they grow. The kittens have been here nearly TWO WEEKS and are almost ready for homes. I am calling them Brother, Sister and Uncle. Why? Because it helps clarify gender and doesn’t allow me to get attached because believe me brother, sister and uncle, they are NOT staying here! Brother, who is [...]

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Look What Jeff Brought or, Oh no, not again!

July 15, 2009

My intentions to post more, work more, parent better, exercise my dogs more have all been seriously compromised this past 7 weeks by a bad back — in my case sciatica which has not been improving mostly because it’s hard for me to s-l-o-w down. This hasn’t stopped the usual flood of rescue calls to [...]

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OMG…a Pocket Har-Vest for Pocket Dogs and Gasp…CATS!!!!

June 11, 2009
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Build it and they shall come. And in this case, not move. Some weeks ago a word of mouth client who learned about Har-Vest ordered an XS Har-Vest. Sadly, she returned it (for a full refund) because it was, even as an XS, just too darn big for her little pocket dog. But my nurtured [...]

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Lola Rehab Update

January 22, 2009

Back at the end of October I discussed the Rehab of Lola. I’m here to give an update. While I fully expected a relapse, I have been pleasantly surprised by what I would call a nearly complete recovery. I’m not yet sure until spring how much the endlessly cold and snowy weather has contributed to [...]

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The Rehabilitation of Lola

October 28, 2008

A Picture of Lola In Her Early More Innocent Days Before Tramping I don’t think you “own” cats as much as cats deign to be in your life. One of those forwarded posts that goes in fits and starts around the internet seems to be recirculating as I have had it forwarded to me twice [...]

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Color Mutations

September 23, 2008

Burn, Byrne, Mr. Byrne, Bernie, Burnie, little guy, has now been here over a month. Gender identity confusions have been resolved, and Burn is in fact a boy! No wonder he’s such a trouble maker! He had the all clear with his doc and couldn’t have had more fun at his first vet visit. I [...]

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Kitten Karma

August 23, 2008

It was 12 years ago this summer I first took on a proactive animal rescue role. My brother and his then wife had just moved back to Cleveland a year after I had and the day the moving van rolled up to unload, my ex sister in law found a cardboard box on the lawn [...]

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Beyond Dogs

June 6, 2006

This has some cool videos of a trained cat. I think anything with a brain stem can be motivated (usually with food ) to learn new behaviors. Our companion animals are often better at training us than we are at training them. The video cat, Annie, is actually quite sophisticated. BTW, this cat is NOT [...]

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A Better Dog Blog is Born

June 2, 2006

Welcome to A Better Dog Blog. A way to explore from my corner of the world to the outer reaches of the world the ways and means to help you help your dog be a better dog — whether your canine is your friend, accomplice, co-worker, guide, source of joy, source of angst — it [...]

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