To get the word out about Something Furry Underfoot, I hired two marketeers, as I call them, which are people who market things like books. One marketeer is Jenkins Group, a book marketing company in my home state of Michigan. They got me set up with something called ReviewDirect which reaches something like 18,000 librarians, book stores, […]
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It’s been almost a month now since Mark and I drove from Michigan to Pennsylvania to look at the puppy Mark fell for that we named Winston . . . . . . and also came home with a pal for Winston that we named Snickers. I’ve never had two puppies at one time. Here’s
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Thank you for all the great name suggestions for our two puppies. The Name the Puppy Contest ended on September 6 and after intense debate, Mark and I selected the two winning names: Snickers and Winston. The winners of the contest are Janet Peterson, my cousin from Alabama, and Virginia Lydic, a.k.a. Stepkid #1 who
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If you know Mark or read Something Furry Underfoot, you probably realize that when it comes to pets Mark is rather uncontrollable–he blinks and another new fuzzy shows up in my house. So, it probably won’t come as too much surprise that Mark went exactly three days without a dog in the house before he went online in
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In my book Something Furry Underfoot are 50 tips, two of which are particularly relevant today. Tip #45: All pets die. Tip #46: It’s always hard when pets die. A little over 15 years ago, Mark came home from a pet store gushing about this little white frou-frou puppy that was scratching madly at the
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In Chapter 4 of my book Something Furry Underfoot, Mark falls for a white frou-frou puppy named Dusty, and I play the role of the tough lady who can live without a dog. Mark Dusty, won me over, of course, but only after I thought seriously about our commitment to the pet we were taking home. Here are some things I pondered before we got Dusty, and
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On July 21 Dusty turns 15! He’s my guard dog and companion, and has been pals to all the other critters that we’ve had in our house over the years. And he’s so darn cute! In honor of Dusty’s 15th birthday, we not only made a birthday cake . . . . . . we also decided
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A few years back, we got these live traps for trapping mice in our basement, and every now and again we set them. Two weeks ago, we set two live traps and the first night, we captured a mouse whose tail was about half as long as it should be–the tail had been chewed off,
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Coming soon to Amazon and Smashwords is my non-fiction book about a whole bunch of critters Mark brought into our house over the course of 18 years. Something Furry Underfoot is my story about taking on frogs, iguanas, hedgehogs, ferrets, hamsters, gerbils, mice, guinea pigs, rabbits, a stray cat, two dogs and a domestic duck.
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Apparently, I made a couple of people cry with my story about the baby mouse, so I’ve actually been a bit hesitant to report that the Thursday before Easter our last ferret, Chip, passed away. Instead of making everyone sad about her passing, I am instead going to share a bit about her 7-year life. Chip had
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