Dogs and Cats

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Ollie was Never Hymie

    If you have spent much time looking through this site, you should come to the conclusion that we like animals.  This is true.  What is also true is, when you take on the responsibility of animal ownership you will experience loss.  Of course you don’t have to be an acreage owner to experience the [...]

13Sep2009 | Guest Author | 2 comments | Continued
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No More Stray Cats

I am a sucker for animals in need of a home.  Even so, when my sister called and asked me to take the stray cat that had been running around her property in town I was reluctant.  But he was sweet, and her kids had been playing with him for some time. 
 
I’ve re-homed several [...]

9Apr2009 | Suzi | 0 comments | Continued
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Nature Has it’s Funny Ways

We’ve all heard about cats or dogs that act as a surrogate to orphaned kittens or puppies and sometimes even pigs or squirrels.  Often, a dog or cat who has just given birth will take on this young as if they were her own. 
 
My dog, Keesha, recently decided to act as a surrogate mom [...]

7Apr2009 | Suzi | 0 comments | Continued
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Humans Could Learn a Lot From Cats

Two Sharing Mama’s

I’m not known for being a cat lover and they’re not one of my favorite animals.  Rarely does one get a key to my heart.  Let me tell you about 2 lady cats who did.  Jelly had her litter and everything went smooth …until Scampers had her first kitty a couple of days later.  Scampers only had [...]

5Apr2009 | Suzi | 2 comments | Continued
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Little Miss Elusive in Heat

Lucy, my 10-mo old great dane, is in heat for the first time.  I’ve had an unspayed dog before but this is the first big dog I’ve had go through this.  It’s messy.  I’m soooooo tired of cleaning blood drips off the wood floor.  And her legs.  She hasn’t even noticed her heat.  The living room and [...]

1Apr2009 | Suzi | 1 comment | Continued
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Mickey (not mouse)

Barn cat.  Outdoor cat.  Mouser cat.  Whatever you want to call it, if you live on an acreage you likely have one or more of these cats.  They tend to come and go and often you don’t know where they’ve disappeared to.  If you’ve had a kitty population-explosion you might even be secretly relieved when [...]

18Mar2009 | Suzi | 0 comments | Continued