Pic of the week: Cozy Callie
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Temps at my place this past week have been downright frigid. “Below freezing” doesn’t begin to describe it, with many mornings registering a …
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Six blessings of my dog's senior status
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Our dog is getting old. Depending on the chart used, Mickey — the pit-pointer we rescued at six weeks old — has reached senior status, hovering anywhere around 80 years old to 93 or so.
Mickey’s advanced age is obvious in myriad ways. The bold brown coloring on his face has gone gray, he has trouble on stairs, he sleeps much of the time, he rarely gets excited about even his once most favorite things … including squirrels needing his exuberant escorting out of the yard and …
Read MoreRest in peace, Lyla girl
/In 2009, our youngest daughter, Andrea, adopted a frightened little stray from The Denver Dumb Friends League. The little girl — about two years old, they guessed — had roamed the city streets on her own most of her life, it seemed.
Andie took in the black lab/shepherd mix, fittingly named her Lyla — which means "black as night" in Persian — and gave her a happy home and lots of love.
Then Andrea gave her to us, months later, when it was clear Lyla needed a yard to run in and Andie's apartment didn't provide that.
Lyla had issues, to say the least. Psychological ones, likely...
Picture this: Letting sleeping dogs lie
/My sleepy dogs being, well, bizarre:
Mickey
Lyla
Today's question:
Where do your animals sleep?
