Gracie Is Schrödinger’s Cat
2015-12-10 – We have two cats. One is named Poppy. One is named Gracie. Gracie has hyperactive thyroid—or is it hypoactive? I can never get that straight. Whatever you call […]
Tag Archives: dogs
A Canine Competitor in the Fertilizer Business
2015-08-25 – Do your dogs have a pattern of where they will and will not poop? My dog Lefty does. He rarely poops in the house and then only if […]
Tropical Getaway, in Spanish, Con Un Perro
2015-07-30 – I was watching an episode of the Daily Show the other day and a Verizon commercial came on. I don’t usually pay much attention to the commercials, but […]
You Can Barely Teach a Young Dog New Tricks!
2015-07-21 – They say you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. The assumption behind this saying is that you had no trouble at all teaching tricks to the dog […]
Lefty and the Sheep
2015-07-12 – My dog Lefty is an Australian Shepherd. I’ve heard people talk about sheep herding dogs (and Lefty in particular) as having an instinct for herding sheep. But we […]
My Dog Lefty Self-Identifies as a Beaver
2015-06-18 – My dog Lefty gnaws on trees. I am not kidding. In his youth he gnawed the bark off one tree in our backyard from the ground up to six […]
Dog Traffic Control
2015-05-05 – I am writing this from seat 29F on an American Airlines flight from Chicago to Raleigh-Durham, NC. I like to look out the window once in a while […]
Are Dogs As Smart as a Two-Year Old? (And Is That a Good Thing?)
2015-04-19 – While half the world believes the other half isn’t intelligent enough to be considered human, scientists are busy finding that all sorts of nonhuman critters have human-level intelligence. […]
I’m Thinking of Taking up Hissing—Like a Cat
2015-03-05 – My dog is afraid of our cat. I’m not going to tell you our dog’s name (though you may know it). He or she still tries to act […]
Dead Squirrel in the Middle of the Sidewalk
2015-02-01 – You don’t normally find dead animals lying on the sidewalk and, if you do, it’s normally food. So that’s what I thought when I saw the reddish bone […]
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