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I just wanted to make Nemo a fancy bandana.   I wanted to make a bandana that is a bit smaller than you usually see so he didn’t drag it in his water dish.  I wanted to make it washable and […]

One year ago today we went to meet an unneutered male 3 year old Pomeranian who was being surrendered to a shelter for biting a child. He was so adorable but when he was allowed to run around in the […]

Several times a week the husband looks at me and sighs, “You wanted a smart dog.” I don’t know that I wanted one but that’s what you get with Pomeranians. It was easy to forget exactly what that meant when […]

Nemo came to us not knowing very much. I’m not a fan of little dogs who run about with no manners. It is easy to let them get away with things because if they are being bad, you just pick […]

We’ve been dogless since we put Freckles down at the end of March 2020. We had a lot of talks about if we were going to get another dog and then what type. We thought about adopting from the national […]

The husband and I pretty much got ourselves banned from the rescue where we got Freckles.  Yeah.  It got ugly.  It was so overwhelmingly stupid that I finally had to stop playing nice and say something. Ok, when people want […]

Paul Facts about Paul: He came here as a very timid boy.  It took him 2 years before he was brave enough to go into the living room. He believes in rules.  Anyone in the house who isn’t following the […]

Lucy   Facts about Lucy: She is the ultimate immoveable object.  She sleeps between my knees and no amount of moving or kicking will dislodge her.  If I need her to move, I need to lift up the blanket that […]

Jules   Facts about Jules: She is a Senegal parrot. Based on the band on her leg we think she was born in 2005. We adopted her from a rescue in 2010. She hates my husband.  I tried to make […]

We said goodbye to Freckles yesterday.  It was a hard but necessary decision. We adopted her on December 1, 2009 from English Springer Spaniel Rescue. She was 5 years old. She had been in a kill shelter in Toledo. From […]

Dealing with the repeated malware and spam attacks on the blog, sapped my will.  By the time it was all fixed I didn’t even want to look at the blog and I wasn’t even doing any of the fixing.  But […]

The absolute Queen of our house died on October 7. I haven’t written about it because it is hard to sum up Powder. I got her and her brother because they had been abandoned in a trailer park along with […]

One of the things I recommend to make older pets’ lives easier are stairs to get onto beds or couches whenever jumping is getting difficult.  In January 2017 I took my own advice and ordered a set of stairs to […]