We’re in a period where there have been a lot of people showing up at the house.

While I enjoy most people, I don’t love having any of them show up unannounced.

That’s because there’s a fair amount of management that goes into keeping Graidy and Wink safe since both of them are Houdini escape artists.

Open the door a slit and turn your back. GONE.

Open the door to come in and stand there talking like you don’t have a care in the world. GONE.

Open the door without looking behind you to see what four-footed is lurking. GONE.

You get the idea. Non-dog people just don’t get it–because they don’t have to get it. They don’t live in […]

This is so sad. My heart is breaking for the state of the world. Truly, we have lost our way…

Dog rescuers, flush with donations, buy animals from the breeders they scorn

By Kim Kavin, Washington Post, April 12, 2018

An effort that animal rescuers began more than a decade ago to buy dogs for $5 or $10 apiece from commercial breeders has become a nationwide shadow market that today sees some rescuers, fueled by Internet fundraising, paying breeders $5,000 or more for a single dog.

The result is a river of rescue donations flowing from avowed dog saviors to the […]