pets

This Science Fair post (below) has received more traffic through the years than any other.  For unknown reasons, it gets a horde of attention from Australia.  Those mates must enjoy cat humor.  But there’s more to the tale and, as the late radio host Paul Harvey would’ve say, I thought you might enjoy, “The rest of the story.” […]

My daughter loves training dogs.  She devours manuals by the shelf-full, some translated from languages I can’t even pronounce, and then practices her craft on our pet, Peanut.  At the end of any given day, I’ll pull into the driveway to find her maneuvering the white fluff-ball among an obstacle course of poles, benches, and […]

My final post on how the internet destroyed the family pet.

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 “I think I found the dog,” my wife Dorie said, staring at her laptop’s screen. The words drew me from my book. I shrugged. “What dog?” She waved her fingers like I was supposed to know something about the topic. “Abigail has been asking for a dog forever. I […]

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 Names in this article have been altered to protect the guilty. The internet has ruined the family pet. When I was a kid, choosing an animal companion was simple. Selection took place in a variety of ways, none too complicated. Sometimes it was the adoption of a stray. Or […]