I don’t usually read e-mail at midnight, but on the last Thursday of the month we are on production deadline, and for the January issues I was waiting for word from our art director, Sara, on some edits when I saw a desperate plea to help a pit bull named Petey. Since the SF/SPCA cover […]
I was picking up perogies at the supermarket when I got a call from Jasmine Blue’s dog trainer, Alan. It was 2 p.m., just about the time he was supposed to arrive to take the pit bull princess out for a playgroup with his pack. “First I want you to know that Jasmine’s OK – […]
It seems like yesterday that I piled an 87-pound red-nose pit bull mix named Cooper into my car and became an instant foster parent, but it’s been nearly a year. I wrote a series of chapters about Cooper last July, August and September, and I am touched by the number of people who still write […]
It was a Saturday afternoon in late April at San Francisco Animal Care and Control when Lana Bajsel, executive director of Give Me Shelter Cat Rescue, overheard two officers discussing a litter of puppies. “The parents were deemed vicious and dangerous so it’s best they are put down,” one officer said to the other. The […]
On the same day that Jasmine Blue and I saw eight 6-week-old Weimaraner-pit bull-bulldog mix puppies off to their new foster homes and the beginning of the rest of their lives, we also saw Big D and his 13-year-old chow-golden retriever mix, Velvet, pull up in front of San Francisco Animal Care and Control. As […]
The weather couldn’t have been more perfect July 7, 2010 for a drive down the coast. Jazzy and I had been invited to stay at one of the ocean-view, dog-friendly cottages at the Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay. My friend Sara, Northside San Francisco’s art director, came along for a girls’ night, and we had […]
The first appointment available for Jasmine Blue at the UC Davis Department of Dentistry was Aug. 18, a full two weeks after her cancer diagnosis. They were the longest two weeks of my life. Even the surgery option was not ideal – because the fibrosarcoma was aggressive, it had already grown twice the size it […]