(Note, see posts June 4, 5, 6, and 7). On my walk early this morning I ran into two people with dogs, one after another. Impulsively, I stopped them both, to ask about their dogs. Two wonder

  Wow. Way sooner than I expected . . . 17-year-old puppy Shadow started coughing late yesterday afternoon, and from then on, 75% of the time each breath he tried to take was a cough. I was up

Note: See recent posts on Shadow. . . . which seems to have cured him, after a tiny amount once a day for four days. I had begun to recognize that he had all the symptoms of heartburn, including le

  Interesting. I had been concerned that maybe 17-year-old Puppy Shadow had heartworm, since I had not consented to test for it at his regular vet appointment, telling them I preferred to peri

  Note: This post was meant to go up yesterday, as an update to the post for the day before, but got derailed by a serious wordpress glitch. Now it’s the third day, and things are about

  I’ve been very much appreciating the fine trail system that Bloomington offers, with puppy Shadow and I upping our walking miles from 3-4 to 5 just to take it all in during springtime.

  To add to my intense Uranus/Moon/Algol drama (which I have still not plumbed in depth on this blog due to constant new developments here in Green Acres Village, plus my two or three times we