We’re dogsitting my husband’s coworker’s dog this week while they’re out of town. Lily is a medium-sized dog and while I was a little worried about having a larger-than-we’re-used-to dog around, I’ve gotten over it!

Yesterday we dragged a few plants over to some usually covered windows to try and get them a few extra rays of sun. The cats and dogs all took advantage of the extra sunlight spilling across the floor and staked out some carpet.
Honey was the first to hunker down and snooze away an hour or so, just enough that the sun started to move away from her.
When she noticed that her patch was no longer comfortable, she got up and joined Turbo, who had previously shared his spot with Chip just a little while before.
This game of musical spots …read more

My husband just happened to catch Sage, one of our cats, mid-blink the other day. I’ve been trying to come up with a caption for it but after the week I’ve had my brain just isn’t engaging. So I thought I’d open it up to see what you can come up with!
So, the best caption for the above picture will win a copy of Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World:
“One frigid Midwestern winter night in 1988, a ginger kitten was shoved into the after-hours book-return slot at the public library in Spencer, Iowa. And in this …read more

Do your pets get to hang out with you on Christmas morning while you open presents?
Our dogs are usually front and center since they need to be let out first thing to do their business. They’re not big enough that they disrupt anything and they also like to play around in the wrapping paper with one of the cats.

The other two cats might come out now and then to see what all the ruckus is about, and as you can see in the picture above Sage just made herself right at home in an empty box one year.
Where …read more

We live in the desert southwest U.S., and while it’s not unheard of to get snow here it just doesn’t happen very often. In the eight years we’ve been here I can count on one hand the number of snowfalls we’ve had.
So it was a very nice surprise for everyone (especially the kids) to wake up to big fat flakes falling to the ground. It took a few hours for it to stick but we’ve got about an inch now and it looks beautiful. I grew up much further north and have really missed the snow this time of year.
Of …read more

I think I (and the kids) had a little too much fun with this!
PetCentric allows you to custom create e-cards using your own pet’s mug, and you get to choose the outfits, the mouth and the tune!
Since the flash on the cards starts automatically I’ve put my full card under the cut, if you want to see it. If you create one and load it to your site, leave a link here so we can see it!

This has not been an unusual sight when you walk into my bedroom over the last week or so. A lump under the extra blanket on the bed… wonder what it could be?

He looks thrilled to see me (again), doesn’t he? I can’t stop myself from bugging him every time I go in. Poor harassed kitty.
What do your pets do to get warm?
(No pets were chilled during the taking of these pictures – we’re still hitting the low-70’s during the day!)

It’s no secret that I love pet stuff that doubles as furniture, or at least hides the pet stuff.
So, our two small dogs have been together now for four years and in only the last year or so have become comfortable enough to lay down and cuddle together, which is something I thought would happen a lot sooner than it did.
Anyway, we’re planning to take advantage of this development and get rid of the two small dog carriers that they sleep in every night and get something that will fit them both. Not only will it cut down …read more

My cats are, I swear, nothing short of cheap entertainment!
Two of the three have a habit of cleaning their litter boxes from top to bottom after using them. I don’t mean the usual “covering up” after their business is done – they stay in the box a minute or so more and scratch at every nook and corner of the box itself and then the lid.
Not surprising for a cat, I suppose, and it’s funny during the day but we can hear them at night too. Does your cat insist of scouring the box when he or she is …read more

We’re going camping next weekend and plan to take the dogs with us!
We went last summer as well and it was Chip and Honey’s first camping experience and they didn’t handle it well. We kept food and water available to them at all times but I don’t think either of them ate the whole weekend — it was rough!
We knew they were stressed after just a few hours but we weren’t sure how to calm them down and get them to eat. We gave them just as much attention as we usually do and brought their crates to …read more