Category: Petting
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A Morning Walk that Ended in an Allergic Reaction
Babe is no stranger to allergies. She gets covered in itchy bumps and hives. After many visits to the vet, we know how to treat her allergic reactions at home.
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A Pig Dog is My Muse
Every artist needs inspiration and mine is a wiggly pibble that we call The Pig Dog.
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Outdoors in the Fall. Is there Anything Better?
As autumn slowly slips away, we’re helping the pups take advantage of the last golden days before winter.
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My Dog Has (Another) UTI
It’s nothing new that Babe has a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Really, it isn’t. She gets them 3-4 times each year. Though, she does seem to be getting them a little more often since we moved to the city. And I have a sneaking suspicion that her (ahem) elimination method has something to do with […]
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For Halloween, the Pig Dog was a… Pig!
Trick-or-treating hours, in my small hometown, are 6 PM until 8 PM, as far as I remember. In New York, where much of the trick-or-treating is done store-to-store (commercial) instead of door-to-door (residential), it seems as though the little gremlins are welcome to begin as soon as the storefront open signs are lit. Well, that […]
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City Puppy Potty Training and a Rash Landlord
Banjo is a poop scapegoat for our overbearing landlord these days.
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No Dogs in the Kitchen
When the dogs snatch food off of the kitchen floor, they’re not always prepared for the consequences.
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Pumpkin Everything!
The air is cool; the leaves are changing and pumpkins are everywhere! Now if I can just teach Banjo to stop trying to eat the decorative ones…
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A Mending Paw
With the paw on the mend and the dog park safe again, this week is ending on a high note!
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A Day at the Dog Park That Went Horribly Wrong
Today wasn’t a terrible day, but terrible things happened today.
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Your Dog Has Night Terrors? My Dog Has Night Pees!
Dogs do crazy things at night — howling at the moon, running in their sleep, getting the hiccups and keeping you awake (thanks, Banjo!) and even having night terrors — but Banjo is peeing at night. Thankfully, she’s not peeing in our bed (although we do have a plastic mattress cover for just such an […]
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A Puppy and a Dog Park
In an effort to keep Banjo as socialized as possible, we’ve been taking her to the dog park since we first got her in June. There are a lot of dog parks in Brooklyn… probably because there are so many dogs in Brooklyn. From our apartment, 2 are within reasonable walking distance. But we usually […]
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Cantaloupe: Turns Out It’s Good for Dogs
I mean, it’s not like we didn’t research whether or not dogs can have cantaloupe before giving it to The Pig and Banjo. Or… well, no, we didn’t. But we also didn’t give them cantaloupe. We just let them chew the rinds. And have a little taste. Off our spoons. After we were done using […]
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When There’s No Time to Write, There Are Always Dog Pictures
My last post was over 2 months ago. Shameful, I know. In my defense, our little home did blow up with business as we prepared for Ivan’s residency applications. And, during that time, we were able to raised $10,000 to pay for the application process. That’s a big deal! But I also realized that writing […]
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Operations Manual for Your New Boxer
Congratulations on your new addition! WARNING: Read all instructions before activating. Failure to do so may result in collateral damage, product constipation and/or the end of the world.
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Lessons from a Boxer Puppy
Every puppy tooth I find on the floor I count as one less hole in my favorite shirt. We adopted a puppy and this is how we are managing.
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Funeral for The Porcupine Dog
Ajax won’t ever have a funeral. And even if he did, I could never make it as wonderful as he’d deserve. He was a singularly amazing dog and unparalleled friend. He created a little fairy tale for us, right in the middle of our own story.
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A Very Unscientific Index of Adopters
This is a truly succinct catalog of adopter types (as seen in the animal adoption sector). Also, check out her blog bourbondog.wordpress.com for more excellent reads about animal rescues and dogs in general!
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The Stop and Drop Phenomenon
Have I mentioned yet how stupendous it is to have a real, full kitchen? I say that primarily for two reasons: 1. I love cooking and 2. I spent January 2012 to December 2014 in Grenada where I had no proper stove (just a toaster oven), four cabinets in which to store my food and […]
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Babe and the Viking Parade
On Sunday, Bay Ridge hosted a Norwegian parade. As it turns out, there is a large, proud Norwegian population in the area. Also, as we live on Third Avenue, a main route in Bay Ridge, the parade marched its honking, blaring, boisterous self right in front of our windows. But, given the usual traffic noise […]