Many thanks to my sister Laura, lifelong advocate and servant to the feline tribe, for providing the raw material and the photograph for this story. I may have already written about Dollop’s general attitude towards life. His full name (A Little Slice of Pumpkin Pie with a Dollop of Whipped Cream) makes him sound all […]
Category: Pets and Other Wild Animals
Animals that I have known and loved, and sometimes feared.
The life and times of three girl dogs
For a period of about ten years, we had three medium-to-large dogs. The first of these three girls to join our family was Kushtaka (accent on the last syllable).* She was the third so-named dog in Scott’s family. I heard stories of the first and got to spend some time with the second. Koosh the […]
For the love of cats
My cat Socks is twenty years old. I never get tired of bragging about that, probably in part because as a child I thought the average life span of a cat was two years. There was high turnover in our dynasty of farm cats, which I now understand to have been a source of stress […]
The naming of the pets
I have a black cat with white feet named Socks. Don’t judge me too harshly; I had no choice. A few months before she came into our lives, we had adopted a black dog with white feet named Boots. So it was either Socks or Mittens. Anyway, I was busy trying to gently explain to […]