Kutay

We all know the importance of transporting our beloved kitties in a secure carrier.

Whether we are going to the veterinarian, moving, or just taking the cat on vacation, a carrier ensures Kitty makes it to your destination and you don't have to drag her out from under a car seat or worry about escapes.


Mack and Clio go to and fro in a boring 'airline' crate that is large enough for them to ride the 14 miles to Crossroads Veterinary Clinic and back. Nothing...

And I never got over it. For years, whenever someone mentioned my sister's dog's name, I'd say, "Hank peed on my back." Of course, everyone already knew that, but it was a summary of my views on Hank. Once in a great while, someone might be around who didn't know the story, and then the statement drew a reaction, but that wasn't my intention. It was just what I had to say about Hank.

Hank was allegedly a miniature poodle, but he was longer and lower to the ground than any...

I'm sort of taking the "dog" part of the title of this blog a bit loosely. Here is a website devoted to cats in sinks. I don't know why I thought it was so funny that someone would actually spend a lot of time setting this thing up and getting ad revenue for it and all, but I just do. And it's oddly addictive. I clicked through the entire set of pictures. Clearly, I need more coffee.

It's been ten months since Cocoa died, just a few months after his 17th birthday. Some days when I walk into the kitchen (where he primarily stayed during the last year of his life, and where his ashes are guarded by a small sculpture of an angel holding a little brown dog), I just want to pick him up so badly that I can feel his negligible weight in my arms and his tangle of curly hair against my skin.

have to admit that I came in to the Greatest American Dog a little disappointed. When I caught the first glimpse of an advertisement, I pictured something else entirely...a tour across the country to meet various dogs of note, for instance. Reality TV is, in my book, just exactly what the world doesn't need any more of, ever, and so when I figured out the concept I wasn't thrilled.

Still, some of those dogs were very cute. There were all different dogs--little tiny ones groomed to...