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14 Feb Second Chance: Tax Season, Good News – for Pets
Wahoo it’s tax season!!! Sorry, I know for furless beings tax season is akin to a snow-less winter, a weekend of domestic chores, or even to sticking pins under your fingernails. But for us furry folk, it means saving lives thanks to the Colorado Pet Overpopulation...
07 Feb Second Chance: Love Your Pet’s Teeth on Valentine’s Day
For this Valentine’s special edition to the Second Chance Pet Column I thought about writing about love and flowers and chocolate – but then I became so bored thinking about that squishy stuff, I rolled right off my bed and fell into my litter box. ...
31 Jan Second Chance: Ready for a Dog?
Dear Pet Column, I have never had a dog before and am feeling overwhelmed trying to decide if I am ready for a pet. And then, if I am ready, how to pick the right dog for me. Please help. Doggie Dazed Dear Dazed,...
24 Jan Second Chance: Cat “Stinky Face”
Dear Pet Column My cat makes often makes this weird face when she is sniffing an object and looks up with her lips curled and slightly back, a look of utter disgust/confusion/concern that makes me laugh heartily. I call it “cat stinky face” and my...
17 Jan Second Chance: Interpreting a Dog’s Body Language
Dear Pet Column, I liked your column last week on interpreting cat communication and am wondering about ways to better understand my dog. For example, I am always baffled when he growls and wags his tail at the same time when meeting new dogs. How do...
10 Jan Second Chance: Chatty Kitty
A new year. A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked. Answers to be discovered. Although I speak chat, (pronounced “kat”), I understand many human words because I listen. To improve feline-human relations, I am going to...
03 Jan Second Chance: Lilly & Panda
Thanks for reading the first Pet Column of 2018. Although this column is typically about pet parenting advice and treating animals humanely, I thought it fitting that the 2018 kickoff – which also happens to be the 600th Pet Column – simply be about a...
27 Dec Second Chance: Cheese & Other Important Topics of 2017
This is the last Pet Column of 2017. No pressure on me though…ok, yes I now know the true meaning of “writer’s block.” Not for lack of something to write about, but for too many important topics swirling about my noggin. How do I choose the topic that...