What the $630 cat has taught me
My wife Roberta had always been an animal person overall but was never much for cats until Moses, a black and white stray a couple months old, showed up at our place at Christmastime 1994. For some reason she found the bedraggled little guy particularly endearing — “This kitten speaks to me,” I remember her...
Lyin' in winter
Every season of the year, my two cats spend a fair bit of time just lying around — that is, after all, sort of what cats do — but relaxation this time of year takes on a special, festive feel for our younger feline, Deuce (he’s 5; his buddy Moses is 14 and currently recovering...
Pet peeve
Friday morning I was sifting through the schedule for this weekend’s Linn County Lamb & Wool Fair in Scio and noticed that the festivities included a pet show to which the public was invited not just to attend but also invited to bring their pets to take part. The invitation contained the following caveat, however:...
Birds and bunnies
Two of my favorite aspects of this time of the year are a) having our bedroom sliding glass door open all night and b) hearing all of the birds singing as the sun comes up (even if both it and they tend to wake me up earlier than I’d like on the weekends). Woke up...
Endorsement deals
Were I a bigshot constantly being asked to hawk one product or another, I would be very judicious in the products I chose to endorse, for a few reasons: 1) I’d probably rather just stay at my fabulously cool home (hey, I’d be rich, right?) than travel constantly to shoot commercials. 2) Overexposure makes people...
Animals who adopted me
I’ve had a variety of pets over the years. About half of them, I adopted, as in I brought them home from SafeHaven or, before I lived here,
