Maddie sort of "fell through the cracks". That’s just a figure of speech, though here she looks thin enough to fall through a crack. The "crack" she fell through was the one that formed when the marriage split. She’s really Mom’s dog, but she liked to go down to the farm shop and hang out […]
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Sometimes you don’t realize how much you needed something until you get it. In my case, what I needed was some fresh air and open space. I’ve either been working or going to meetings or working the little league basketball games for Kiwanis, or going to funerals or just about anything except riding my motorcycle. […]
The phone rang at 3:00AM. This is never good: I am not pretty and I need my beauty sleep. "Do you make house-calls?" It turns out the guy got up to use the bathroom and found his dog stiff and twitching uncontrollably. "Is this a female dog?" Yes. "Has she had puppies recently?" Two weeks […]
In December, Pepper was purchased from a kennel as a 2-year-old. She wasn’t a family pet, but she seemed friendly enough. Her new family took her home and she was fine on the ride. Then they opened the car door and she bolted away. They couldn’t get within six feet of her, and she disappeared. […]
I have heard it said that "…if you want a big funeral, be sure to die young: before you’ve outlived all your friends." The other approach would be to live a long and full life, and keep making new friends as you go. That’s what filled the church for Martha’s memorial service. I didn’t get […]
Old Yeller Alert In a previous post, I discussed many of the problems one might encounter in adopting a pet of uncertain origin. In an attempt to be warm, fuzzy, and make the idea attractive, I pretty much glossed over the worst case scenario. The problem is that these animals are not brought to the […]
This is one of those posts that could easily stray from the warm-fuzzy image we’d like to project. Sometimes a patient is not in a life-threatening situation, yet you feel that his condition is something that just can’t wait. I’m not even going to define paraphimosis (much less post a picture), but that’s what the […]
No snow all winter, beautiful weather last weekend, and global warming… and six inches of snow fell last night. Actually, it started yesterday afternoon, and by five PM, it was really accumulating. As the snow increased, the client traffic decreased. The phones got quiet as people who don’t know snow became immersed in it, some […]
Regular readers may remember me whining about a cancelled camp-out. It finally got rescheduled and I took a rare Saturday off to get the new boys off to a good start. We had a combination of orienteering (using your compass to find stuff), problem-solving, team-work, and physical challenges. The weather was absolutely perfect. The cargo […]
There are some things that are inherently dangerous, but if you start them early enough as a kid, you just don’t think about it. Working with horses is like that. Intellectually you know it’s potentially very dangerous, but when you grow up doing it, you just aren’t scared (cautious, yes, but not quaking and shaking). […]