When I first sat down to write this week’s blog posting, my intention was to celebrate the passing of the last warm days in Michigan until probably May. It was to celebrate happy things like garter snakes taking in the last of the sun’s warmth a few days ago. This one was all smiles, too. […]
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I haven’t told this story to anyone. But after many years of sleeping with strange animals, I had to finally confess. I have slept with an orange dog. It came from Pet Smart and it was Dusty’s reward for putting up with being washed, trimmed and having his nails ground. See, Dusty loves his new
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When Mark and I got Dusty and Little Dipper, people asked us if we were going to dress our dogs in little outfits. We said no, maybe even “No way!” The thing is, when our dogs are really fuzzy, they stay perfectly warm in the winter, but when we get them trimmed, they shiver
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I was riding my mountain bike in a wildlife research area in October 2005 when I saw both a gray and white rabbit and a smaller black rabbit near the parking lot. Wild rabbits are usually brown, and domestic rabbits don’t last long in the wild. So, I went home, grabbed Mark, and returned to find my friend, Brenda,
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Mid-Michigan only reached a high of 20 degrees this weekend, and on such cold days, the choice between being in the great outdoors and snuggling on our couch and its pile of pillows and fuzzy blankets is not a hard one. But toasty and warm as I am inclined to be, come around 4:00 or so, this little face shows up and looks up at me.