The moral of the story is pretty simple: If you own a dog, make sure you license/register it with your local city/county. At about 1:00 pm today, I headed out back to give Sparky a little treat. He wasn’t in his doghouse and he wasn’t laying down in any normal spots. As I walked around [...]
Read more →It’s snowing!!! Look at our front yard: Since I really can’t stand winter, this’ll be the only night that I’m excited to see snow. After this, spring and warm weather can’t come soon enough. But for one night, it’s cool to watch and see again. There’s actually one other fun thing about the first snowfall [...]
Read more →It didn’t work. Early this afternoon, we took Rocko back to the family that adopted him a week ago. (Coincidentally, they live about 500 yards from us right here in West Richland.) So we’re a one-dog family again. It wasn’t so much a problem with Rocko, or with the two dogs together. They were doing [...]
Read more →Can you tell which one is Sparky? If you need a refresher on what Sparky looks like, try here, here, or here. We got a new dog today! He’s a carbon copy of Sparky in a lot of ways: male, black lab mix, between two and three years old. I was at the pet store [...]
Read more →Sparky turns two years old today! Well, we don’t know exactly when his birthday is, but we celebrate it on April 7th each year. We brought Sparky home on July 4, 2008, and took him to the vet on July 7th. They estimated that he was already three months old then, and listed his birth [...]
Read more →We got Sparky a new bed today because his old one was getting too flat and he’s been struggling to get comfortable on it for a little while now. You may be wondering, Gee, Matt, does he like it? Yes. Yes, he does. Aside from dinner-time, he hasn’t gotten off the thing in seven hours.
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