Tag: dogs
member name: Ruth MacGill
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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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December 09, 2008 01:20 PM EST --
My daughter Jane gave my big black shaggy dog, Smokey Joe, to me after she found him as a 4-month old puppy that had been dropped off beside the road. I had recently lost my husband and I was lonely and . . .
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April 19, 2009 02:40 AM EDT --
Today Jane took part of the day away from medical transcribing to work at spading her garden. Her unruly year-old pup, Sasha, was with her in the separate chain-linked area. Sasha is always being scolded . . .
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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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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 28, 2009 12:36 PM EST --
One thing leads to another with surprising consequences. Some of you may have read about my daughter Jane's propensity for saving the lives of stray animals. She should have been a veterinarian. She . . .
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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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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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June 13, 2008 12:23 AM EDT --
My daughter Jane and I started our day with a cat funeral. Her cat Jenny died last evening after a long illness. My daughter can't stand to let her pets go without a her best effort to keep them alive, . . .
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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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April 25, 2009 05:58 PM EDT --
I'll do the annoyances first.
Right now what annoys me the most is listening to Dick Cheney and his friends trying to justify torturing people. Next, is having to listen to the media on every news . . .
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May 30, 2009 10:02 PM EDT --
We are still planning to move sometime in July. My daughter Jane looked at some possible rentals when she was in town yesterday. She found several with 2 or 3 bedrooms that will accept our pets. I'm . . .
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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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September 08, 2007 07:02 PM EDT --
Last winter I introduced a gray feral striped cat to you in an article I called Should I Call That Feral Cat Tom or Tomasina. After he decided to trust me and come in the house to live, I found out he . . .
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July 15, 2007 12:40 AM EDT --
Why Is My Dog Smiling?
Every evening at dusk I call Smokey Joe, my 110 pound black Lab/Collie protector, inside to eat his supper and sleep on the soft dog-bed I spread down at night for him. . . .
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November 22, 2007 11:38 AM EST --
My Holiday Blues Aren’t Working!
Each year I seem to dread the Christmas holidays more and more. It starts on Thanksgiving and today I am all prepared to hunker down with moody blues, and go . . .
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February 10, 2008 01:24 AM EST --
I'm laughing, but it really isn't funny. After about six hours of dosing her dog Bob on tranquilizers, my daughter remembered someone's story about getting his dog drunk to . . .
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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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