Monthly Archives: November, 2008
Friday Quote
In honor of Thanksgiving leftovers, I give you a quote about t-day turkey.
“Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.”
Erma Bombeck
Hopefully you all have survived yesterday’s tryptophan overdose and are beginning to come out of the self-induced food coma. Go easy on [...]
Giving Thanks
Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. Not only is it a day-long feast filled with family, football and the perfect time for kicking back and hanging out with my best fur-friends — but it is the time when we stop to remember all the things in our lives we are thankful for. We all have so [...]
Presidential Turkey Pardon
This is a good year to be the turkey that receives the Official Presidential Pardon. The tom turkey that was this year’s lucky recipient is a huge 45-pound, 20 week-old fellow named “Pumpkin” (Is that abnormally large? What the heck are they feeding “Pumpkin”???). He got to stay at the Willard Hotel (5 stars, folks [...]
Dog Training and Obedience
All my life I’ve had Golden Retrievers. They are sweet, funny and eager to please, which makes them easy to train. Sure, they go through periods when they can be stubborn or willful — some challenge their owners to see who is really “top dog”. But, for the most part, I’ve been exceptionally lucky in [...]
Cage Match: Panda vs. College Student
If you were to have bet on this unofficial, unplanned and unadvised event, hopefully you would’ve put your money on the panda.
While pandas are one of the cuter and more snuggly looking wild animals, they are still wild — and BEARS. Sometimes people forget that . . . and sometimes they feel the need to [...]
Friday Quote
Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.
–Goucho Marx
Happy Friday everyone! You know with the weekend coming I think the best way to usher it in is to get a big bowl of popcorn and some M&Ms and watch Monkey Business or Duck [...]
He Went Thatta Way
Over the weekend one of our neighbors came into the store to pickup some food and told Ann to keep an eye and ear out for any information regarding a lost Australian Cattle Dog named “Diego.” He got out of his backyard in Solana Beach and his family is understandably frantic to have him come [...]
Dental Drama
Rule number one of pet ownership: check your dog frequently from nose to tail, topline to toenails for health issues.
Rule number two of pet ownership: don’t follow rule number one late at night right before you go to bed.
Teague, my beloved Golden Retriever, broke his fourth premolar — a.k.a the carnassial tooth. It is the [...]
Rabies and the Single Runner
Last night I managed to catch the tail end of Michelle Felicetta on the Late Show with Dave Letterman talking about her encounter with a rabid fox while running in the Arizona desert outside of Prescott. She had been running for about a mile when the fox, normally a very timid animal, came at her [...]
“What a Relief!”
As some of you know I’m a runner and am currently training for my second marathon (Walt Disney World Marathon — seriously, what could be more fun than running through all four parks?!). I love running long distances. I also have the knees of an Egyptian mummy. In fact, the mummy’s knees might be in [...]