Tag: dogs
member name: Ruth MacGill
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December 18, 2009 09:50 PM EST --
After three nice heavy rains last week and several sunny days, you would think it is spring here in the foothills of San Diego. All the bare hillsides are now green. There was a space around our house . . .
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November 12, 2007 09:25 PM EST --
I just have to tell you this one right now. Jake, the brown coyote that has been hanging around my spot at the horse camp, has figured a sure-fire way to get me to feed him. I don’t know what started . . .
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October 21, 2007 11:27 AM EDT --
Horse Campers
On this sunny and very windy weekend there is a group of people camped at #40, under a huge old oak tree at the far end of the camp. That site is popular because it is very private . . .
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January 29, 2007 04:04 PM EST --
Sheba is in the Dog House!
Pit bulls will be pit bulls! I have written about Sheba and her three puppies that my daughter, Jane rescued. A truck had hit Sheba and her right front leg was mangled. . . .
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September 29, 2007 11:16 AM EDT --
Just before sundown yesterday, I was surprised by a visit from Nora and Bruce, a couple who used to be my neighbors. They are a generation or two younger than I, but we share a mutual love of animals. . . .
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November 06, 2007 11:03 AM EST --
Things have not been going well for Sherpa’s family, a large, good-looking and independent couple I have known for about eight years. They have fallen on hard times that have left them virtually . . .
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February 10, 2007 12:32 PM EST --
Smokey Joe’s Woes
It has been over two weeks since Smokey Joe went walking with my daughter Jane, and Sheba, the pit bull mother of three mixed breed puppies. At about nine months old, . . .
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December 14, 2006 01:30 AM EST --
Today’s Dog Rescue
There is a local network of dog rescuers within a twenty-mile radius of where I live, and when any of us find out about a dog in need, we keep the wires hot planning . . .
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December 16, 2006 10:01 AM EST --
A Storm Is Coming In
I meant to wait two days before I fired off another article. I don’t want to ‘run you off’ with too much trivial drivel, and that is what this is going . . .
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February 17, 2007 11:20 AM EST --
My Garbage Disappointed the Coyotes, A Book Review, Etc.
Yesterday I spent all day writing for Gather and listening to a book on tape. I failed to take my bag of garage to the dumpster . . .
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March 13, 2007 07:38 AM EDT --
After You Rescue a Pit Bull, What Do You Do Next?
My daughter, Jane, is one very kind person. She has never been very well off financially, yet I have seen her go to great lengths of expense . . .
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March 28, 2007 11:28 PM EDT --
Maggie - Another Puppy Story
Gatherers who regularly read my articles know I love animals, especially cats and dogs. Cats have always been tops on my agenda, but needy dogs are a close second, . . .
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June 08, 2007 10:30 AM EDT --
Coyote Laughter
I just heard the craziest coyote song I have ever heard! From inside, I thought I was hearing someone screaming. Then, I thought it might be my daughter screaming “MOM”. . . .
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September 30, 2007 04:43 PM EDT --
Something Was Prowling in the Moonlight Last Night
It’s another day of sunshine, mild temperatures, and gentle breezes at the Indian horse camp where my daughter and I live in the mountains . . .
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May 10, 2008 12:03 PM EDT --
What Are You Going to Do With Your $600?
Mine came in yesterday. I live 60 miles from town and I had waited until it came in to do my monthly shopping. Since the price of gas went sky-high and rising, . . .
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December 18, 2008 10:18 AM EST --
In case you are wondering, yes, I am still trapped in my trailer. But I'm no longer snowed in, I'm trapped inside my trailer by a downed limb from the old live oak tree that shelters me. I . . .
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January 08, 2009 09:47 AM EST --
I don't see how I could have had so much junk in and around a 30-foot trailer! I have already moved several loads of stuff, but back at the horse camp where I lived for almost six years are about . . .
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December 05, 2006 12:04 PM EST --
Early Morning Walkabout in a Pickup Truck
It isn’t cold this morning and the wind is calm, so my wayward dog, Rocky, did not choose to come in the trailer after two hours of running loose . . .
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December 07, 2006 11:11 AM EST --
Midnight Movies
Here I am again, wide awake in the middle of the night. I read the clock wrong. Through groggy, half-opened eyes I read 3AM. I decided I wouldn’t be able to go back to sleep . . .
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December 15, 2006 08:06 PM EST --
My Neighbor’s Dog
Edited and reposted
Sometime in the late 60s and I was in the middle of my 13 year stint working for FACSO, a Navy data processing outfit at the Construction Battalion . . .
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