LAB TAILS

You call this protection! Harumph! 

Poor Elsie. She's not a "little girl" any more; no more puppydom for her. Yes. She's experiencing her first heat cycle, ...

I'm not so sure about this Cat, Mom. Make it go away...I just want my sleepy spot in the sun all to myself. 

Uh oh. Now what am I supposed to do? I don't understand Cat body language! Is he submitting to me? (hardly!) 

What's this cat doin', Mom? 

PROGRESS! For the first time since we've had all three dogs, Snickers the Cat decided to brave sitting with one of them (he and Baxters...

Elsie (far), Baxter (middle), Ridge (near): what would life be like without them? (Gotta like those tongues!)

Now that my conscience is soothed, having posted my National Pet Week tribute to the dogs in yesterday's sappy-but-heartfelt poem, I can...

(Wink, wink.) Mom just posted a poem about us...it's pretty good (wink, wink) for a human (wink, wink). 

In honor of National Pet Week, I promised to post a list of how our canine kids make a difference in our lives. My list turned into a poem (...

National Pet Week According to those more “in the know” than I, this week (May 4th through May 10th -- or 1st through 7th depending on who y...

The Thinker. :o) or should I say...teacher? 

A good friend sent this little ditty to me (Hi, Kath!), and though I've seen it circulating on the Internet before I never knew from whe...

Gentle-souled, big-mouthed Elsie sitting with Daddy Don 

Though all three dogs are gentle at heart (it's a Lab trait), Elsie has our softest touch. Certainly, Baxter and Ridge treat us with ca...

The human-canine connection: there's nothing quite like it. Here, a picture of Don and Elsie is truly worth a thousand words. :o) 

Elsie asleep in Dad's lap. 

And now from the "Did You Know?" department: Did you know that before the invention of the lightbulb Americans averaged 9.5 hours...

Ridge, our ever-faithful, eager-to-please, always-ready-to-work-for-you retriever. Here he's waiting for Daddy Don to throw the retrievi...

Ridge alerting to voices he hears in the living room beyond the gate.