Tag: life with pets
group name: animalcrackers
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April 02, 2006 01:36 PM EDT --
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I call to my two cats, Mao and Cheddar. And they come running.
I called "Baby Fooooood." Sure, they know the words, "Baby Food." They're cats. . . .
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May 22, 2006 05:06 PM EDT --
My baby boy Buddy is a killer. No tiny bird is safe within the confines of my yard.
In the past week, I have caught him with dead birds five times. Now when I let him and Boopy out the door it's a . . .
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March 05, 2006 12:28 PM EST --
This is the third and last of my "Distinguished Gentleman" pieces. We have reached the end of the rainbow and there was no pot of gold.
I wrote before about the less than ideal living arrangement . . .
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March 16, 2006 09:04 AM EST --
I need your help, fellow gatherers.
I have this friend, who shall remain nameless pending court action, who is disgusted by one of my household rules.
Dogs do the dishes. Buddy gets my plate when I'm . . .
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September 01, 2006 06:27 AM EDT --
There were seven of us boys growing up and over the years we had quite a few pets. Our favorites were probably that old orange stripped tabby cat named Plus and a Weimeraner-lab mix dog named Minus.
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February 10, 2006 02:43 PM EST --
He walks slowly through the wastelands of New Mexico. His eyes, though locked in a gaze ahead, see all. He's constantly poised for his defense. He glances at his watch. Wait, he doesn't have a . . .
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March 24, 2006 04:49 PM EST --
Dear Bryan, I have to tell you the truth, as I see it. I'm a bunny. A Honey Bunny to be exact. I'm no run-of –the-mill bunny either. You see, I'm an actress. . . .
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June 15, 2006 08:30 AM EDT --
Hey there Gatherers, this is Boopy! We need to talk.
My friend, Stephen Schneider or Sebastian Stephens or whatever he's calling himself this week has really lost it.
He's written so much about . . .
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June 16, 2006 06:52 PM EDT --
Hi fellow gatherers! It's me again, Boopy.
Mr. Schneider has left the building. He's not available for comment. I've taken over.
My story here yesterday got TWICE as many readers. Mine got . . .
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September 19, 2007 04:09 PM EDT --
Does anyone know how to really get cat odors out of a mattress? Last night we had company over and I put the animals in the bedroom with us. The youngest isn't used to not having free roam . . .
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March 14, 2006 11:14 PM EST --
They say that Cat's have much smaller heads than dogs, but what matters is what's between the ears. I don't know. For such sophisticated creatures, I find my pride of housecats very easy to . . .
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February 13, 2006 10:48 AM EST --
Anna G. published an article that was written by a man named Richard Biby.
It is called "Just a Dog." This got me to thinking about my dogs, Kira and Sasha.
Are they "Just dogs" to . . .
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March 12, 2006 09:32 AM EST --
My father-in-law was a tyrant who hated cats. He ruled the household with an iron hand. He wasn't a bad man, just a controlling one, and he felt he knew what was best for everyone. . . .
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May 18, 2006 12:04 PM EDT --
I don't know why he responds the way he does.
He knows I'm not after him.
I don't want him.
I don't need him.
If I did need him, I'd call. He'd come. It might take some coaxing, . . .
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August 28, 2006 12:14 PM EDT --
As summer begins to wind down, I realize that I haven't published anything on gather in the last month. In fact, I haven't spent much time here at all.
As weird as it was, it seems to have gotten . . .
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September 02, 2006 04:30 PM EDT --
When our older children were growing up, we had a big black standard poodle named Bear. One day my young son came to tell me that Bear had had an accident in the house. He said, "Come . . .
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December 22, 2006 12:55 PM EST --
As I drove into work this morning, I had to slow to a crawl when escapees pranced out into the street. A medium-sized brindle mutt danced out into the street as his smaller black buddy scurried to catch . . .
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December 04, 2006 12:01 AM EST --
Seeing the group "Crazy Sleepers" took me back to a night 18 years ago. I had just recently brought home a tiny kitten I'd named "Milli", after a favorite co-worker. . . .
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February 20, 2007 07:55 PM EST --
I was a vet tech in what I can only describe as an up scale animal shelter. I have more horror stories than I care to remember but some stories turned out good.
One day a truck driver came into the receiving . . .
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October 17, 2006 10:44 PM EDT --
So I come home this evening, and go in to the spare room/computer room to chat with my husband and both of our boy kittens are sleeping on the bed, looking all cute, sweet and innocent. Within . . .
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