People who love dogs often talk about a “lifetime” dog. I’d heard the phrase a dozen times before I came to recognize its significance. Lifetime dogs are dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable ways. — Jon Katz, A Good Dog Jasmine Blue was my lifetime dog. As I drove to San Francisco Animal […]
Here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors It’s the only way to live In cars — “Cars,” by Gary Numan Skylar Grey slept all the way home. She was exhausted from being spayed that morning, but it still seemed strange to me how comfortable she was — […]
Like a Band-Aid, you take the heartache and make it OK No more pain … You take the anger off my brain and the wrinkle off my brow I don’t know how you do what you do, but you do do it Well, I’m sticking to you like Velcro, And I won’t go where you […]
The day I adopted Skylar Grey at San Francisco Animal Care and Control, executive director Rebecca Katz handed me a new puppy parent packet. As I skimmed through the various handouts, Rebecca said, “You should get her into puppy kindergarten, too.”
Is that a shadow — or a hole in the floor? And what’s that noise outside my door?? Home alone. On my own … and all alone … — “Home Alone 4,” by D-A-D The first time I went to SF Puppy Prep was also the first time I left the Itty Bitty Pittie home […]
As we entered the classroom at SF Puppy Prep on the first day of kindergarten, Skylar Grey was excited to see other puppies but terrified to leave my side. I was trying to juggle her leash with one hand and hold a dog bed under my arm with the other.
On a June day in 2009, I called Steve. “Come over and meet my foster puppies,” I said. “It’s gorgeous out. We can sit in the garden and have cocktails.” When Steve arrived, there was a pitcher of martinis and three four-month-old pit bull mix sisters.