Holiday Confessions This is the week I should do a podcast filled with all kinds of wonderful resolutions for pet owners, but the reality is that I’m so far behind this is the podcast I intended to do last week. Think of it as extending the holiday season… Here’s a link to an article about [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Beastly Business – Chapter 13
Breaking and entering is a lot like eating peanuts. After you do it once, it’s hard to resist doing it again. What’s that strange noise? Could it be…
Meandering With Myrn – Episode 18
Holiday Miracles A few visuals to go along with this week’s podcast. It’s difficult to get a good picture of the basement stairs because of their location. But these two pictures will give you come idea of their steepness. The first is of the stone structure that is about 7′ high, and the stairs to [...]
Beastly Business – Chapter 12
Some days what you discover about those around you make brain-sucking aliens a viable explanation.
Meandering With Myrn – Episode 17
Ice and Canine Cognition What do ice and thinking dogs have in common? Probably not much, but these are some thoughts on both that came to me during last week’s ice storm. You can find a discussion of the study I mentioned here. And here are some pictures I took after the storm ended. A [...]
Beastly Business – Chapter 11
Did anyone ever drag you into some scheme that was so hare-brained you just wanted to pound them? In this chapter, StClair gets her chance.
Meandering With Myrn – Episode 16
Practical Pet Lessons This week’s podcast is about some practical things pets can teach us that make it easier to handle any stress related to the holidays or life in general. In it I mention two yoga poses, tree and plow. There are multiple versions of each of these poses, but these are the ones [...]
Beastly Business – Chapter 10
StClair decides to engage in some serious breaking and entering to find that damned goat. Turns out there’s a lot more involved in this criminal endeavor than she’d thought…
Meandering With Myrn – Episode 15
Baboons, Humans, Pets, and Stress At this time of year and especially this particular year, you hear a lot of people talking about stress so I figured I might as well, too. The two sources who contributed to my thought processes were, first, the DVD of Stress: Portrait of a Killer, a show that originally [...]