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Happy National Boston Terrier Day!

19 Wednesday Feb 2020

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An 8 Year-Old’s Awesome Artwork

10 Tuesday Jul 2018

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starring my lovebugs Cricket and Squeak

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Greedy Frogdog

30 Wednesday May 2018

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A Frogdog’s Teething

08 Wednesday Nov 2017

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When Cricket was a baby, she chewed through my house while teething. Check out the coffee table in the pics below…

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Tucker

08 Wednesday Nov 2017

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Dave’s baby Tucker

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Pam the French Bulldog

13 Thursday Jul 2017

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Books Books Books

21 Wednesday Jun 2017

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$5 for a Bag of Books at the Worcester Habitat for Humanity yo, inching Less Than Zero, Doctors and a childhood favorite Island of the Blue Dolphins. 8 years old I was Marana on that island, struggling to find food and trying to avoid being killed by the wild dogs (while doing everything I could to steal one of their puppies).IMG_1212

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Rascal – Sterling North

04 Saturday Mar 2017

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imageRascal found for 25 cents at the thrift store! My endearing love of raccoons started with this favorite book from my childhood, in fact I named my 5th child Rascal (jostling with my Frenchie for camera time in the pics below)

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The Champions (Michael Vick is shit)

12 Sunday Jun 2016

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Just watched this great documentary, about the dogs that survived Michael Vick’s dogfighting ring. What a piece of shit he is, details from that time include him throwing his children’s small dogs in the ring to be killed and beating dogs’ heads into the concrete to kill them. All of the dogs in The Champions live with fear for the rest of their lives (the ones that animal control didn’t automatically kill). Two years after his prison release, he had signed a new $100 million dollar contract, re-signed with Nike and been given the keys to the city of Dallas..

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A Dog’s Purpose, A Dog’s Journey – Bruce Cameron

13 Saturday Feb 2016

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Bruce Cameron is my favorite dog author, both “A Dog’s Purpose” and “A Dog’s Journey” were read in 4-hour cover-to cover inhalations. I encourage anyone who loves dogs to read these 2 books, in fact as I am cutting and pasting quotes into this post I am crying just a bit.

Some Bruce Cameron quotes:

ā€œYou can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.ā€

ā€œThe job of a good dog was ultimately to be with them, remaining by their sides no matter what course their lives might take. All I could do now was offer him comfort, the assurance that as he left this life he was not alone but rather was tended by the dog who loved him more than anything in the whole world.ā€

ā€œBut humans drive the cars and decide when dogs eat and where dogs live and clearly this was something else in their power – they could find their dogs when they needed them.ā€

ā€œI guess I had never bothered to consider that there might such a thing as a boy, but now that I had found one, I thought it was just about the most wonderful concept in the world. He smelled of mud and sugar and an animal I’d never scented before, and a faint meaty odor clung to his fingers, so I licked them.ā€

ā€œSome people just don’t appreciate having a dog around. It’s sad to think there are people like that. I knew Gloria was that way—maybe that’s why she could never be truly happy.ā€

ā€œYou can usually tell that a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.ā€

“My dog’s name is Tucker, and his DNA is unidentifiable and suspect.”

ā€œAs I sat in the sun on the wooden dock that jutted out into the pond, I knew this to be true: my name was Buddy, and I was a good dog.ā€

ā€œA bouquet of wonderful scents met my nose, and my heart leaped when I realized who I was smelling.
‘Molly!’ I heard someone call.
I whipped my head around everywhere and there they were, the people I’d been smelling. Everyone I’d ever loved in my life, standing at the edge of the water, smiling and clapping. I saw Ethan and Hannah and Trent and CJ standing in front, along with Andi and Maya and Jakob and all the others.
‘Bailey!’ Ethan yelled waving.
My names was Toby, and Buddy, and Molly and Max and Bailey and Ellie. I was a good dog, and this was my reward. Now I would get to be with the people I loved.
I turned, whimpering with you, and swam toward those golden shores.ā€

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Bathtime Anger

20 Monday Jul 2015

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Cricket and Squeak will lay on the bed and ignore me for a while, and then they’ll be my friends again šŸ™‚

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My Books my preciousss

10 Wednesday Jun 2015

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My trunk has been full of books for 2 months. I was finally able to unpack them, with sadly leaving some behind in Miami. Books are my best friends, after the 2 loves of my life Cricket and Squeak

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Cricket the Destroyer

23 Thursday Apr 2015

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When it’s a rainy day and the kids are trapped inside with nothing to do…I guess I’m lucky it was a $1 Carebears pillow that I got at the flea market instead of one of the motel’s pillows

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This Bathtime Thing is Bullshit

08 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Squeak will ignore me for hours after her bath, she calls it a “civil right’s violation” and “animal cruelty.”

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Baby Wombat Kung Fu Master

13 Friday Mar 2015

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Barry the Pug Gets It In

10 Tuesday Mar 2015

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The Greatest Love of All

01 Sunday Mar 2015

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The Greatest Love of All is inside of me (not in a sexual way)

I believe the children err dogs are our future

R.I.P. Bobbi Xtina 😦 oh wait she ain’t dead?

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Dogs is People Too

25 Wednesday Feb 2015

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A friend of mine who used to be one of the hard working under appreciated social workers for the State here in Pensacola has written a book now available on Kindle, John Jernigan’s ā€œThe Gay Road Less Traveled.ā€ I purchased it tonight to start it, couldn’t out it down, it was so funny. Graphic, real, and hysterical, John’s writing is endearing, funny, smart and if you happen to be drinking coffee, it may shoot out of your nose at some point during one of his vignettes. You can read it on Kindle.

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