animals – Peace With My Life

Pack Leader or Weak Link?

I am often ridiculed at home for being the weak link. This is usually said when a dog approaches anyone

Gracie joined our home pack in August, and it was clear that she wasn’t accustomed to dogs. We knew that

A speech pathologist taught her dog to communicate with her the same way that she taught children with disabilities how

As St. Francis’ feast day, it is traditional to bless the animals in honor of his teachings. May all creatures

Our Goffin’s Cockatoo, Sugar, is everything you’d expect in a pack’s alpha male. He is forceful, bossy, and expects everyone

Sugar is now the alpha male of our blended flock/pack. Most of our pets are female, but two of the

Things are getting uncomfortable at my house. Jazz is recuperating following his second surgery in a few months to remove

It has been an intense few weeks here as we navigate through Thanksgiving and my husband and I work diligently

October 4 is the day of the Blessing of the Animals, in honor of St. Francis. I am fully on