dogs – findingjubilee

Take a Break

I’m having a hard time writing today. Someone who loves me called and asked me if I was doing okay,

I finished stitching together my current quilt project and today I loaded it onto the longarm. The process of creating

That your mere presence makes a dog this joyously happy and willing to share space, conveys more than any words

I can claim no super hero acts of kindness today; not that I usually could anyway. My habit is to

I make it sound like Gordy and I do all the caretaking around here, but that is only credible if

Bruno, who is deaf, and Tootsie, who is blind, wear harnesses during the day. Each harness announces that dog’s particular

My childhood dreams consisted of various versions of a life vastly improved by the presence of a dog and a

Annie is sleeping right out in the open and by that I mean she is just like the other dogs

I have been allocating a fair amount of mental space lately to a particular dynamic, a new dynamic, that has

If you had asked me earlier, I would have told you we have an attrition strategy. No more new animals

Bruno had an emergency last night. A piece of a treat lodged in his throat and he woke us up,

Tootsie has been with us two years now. A lot has changed for her in those two years. She lost

I want to tell you something about Monroe and my intent here is to do so with a spirit of

Gordy is in doctor mode. Sophie had surgery yesterday to remove a four pound lump from her side, thankfully benign,

I am lingering in this, the small window of quiet time before afternoon feeding begins, watching the day say good-bye.

Maizey is our wild child. She holds a high opinion of herself and of her role in the workings of

Instead of whisking the empty dog bag out to the garbage, I let it lay open on the ground and

It hasn’t even been a week since little foster pup, Annie, joined us. Think of it: A week ago she

I won’t write about Annie every single day, but I will write about her today. That little pup has been

Do you remember the circumstances of Tootsie’s rescue? She belonged to an elderly woman who was taken from her home