Answers to All Your Questions about the Rez Dog

My post about Little Freakster, the wayward rez dog, generated a lot of questions from my devoted readers (also known as Allison and Sarah). So, in the interest of building rapport with my readers and wasting time that could be spent reporting on Maxwell Street Days, I thought I’d get all your burning questions answered [...]

The Rescue of a Rez Dog

There’s a special spot in my heart for rez dogs, which is the term I use to describe the often-unkempt and sorta mangy mutts I frequently found cruising around the Bad River Indian Reservation when I worked there for a year in 2005. Most of the time these pups had a home base, but — [...]

Bichon gets a bike basket

Last Friday I hosted several ladies for supper and we installed a basket on my bike in which I plan to tow my bags, my laptop computer and my Bichon mix, Scoops! To get him acclimated to the equipment, we settled (read: forced) him in the basket and plied him with a plethora of [...]

Happy Mother’s Day, Margie!

This is a special posting in honor of my mother, Marge Hollish, who — beyond being a good mom to me and my sister, Christine — has been a great “mom” to our family’s pets. One pet who particularly loved Marge was Max, a Bichon Frise. In general, he was a horribly ill-tempered creature, and [...]

Beagle’s belly swollen from a food binge

My sister’s Beagle, Casey, got into the pantry today and chomped his way substantially through a 20-pound bag of Iams’ senior formula kibble. Here he is, his normally fit body stretched far out with food:

Poor Casey. Beagles, I have noticed, seem to have no control over their appetites. My sweet Beagle mix Penny, who passed [...]