Every day when I enter my garden I must watch my step. It has become the favorite egg laying sanctuary of the neighborhood turtles. Out of the Charles River they emerge, in the weeks of the full moon. The wood and wire fence that surrounds the garden to keep animals out doesn’t deter […]
I love my Dog!
When I was a little girl I used to love all animals, but mostly cats and dogs. At that time a few stray dogs and cats used to go around my neighborhood; I wanted to pat them, hold them, but my mom and grandmother would not let me even approach them. They explained […]
Kitty Love
Have you ever heard an animal cry out in grief or despair? I have. It breaks my heart every time. On this occasion, I heard it on the large property that I lived on, and it really surprised me. I track the cry down… no way Jose could I ever ignore a call […]
Windows hurt…
I was lounged across my hotel bed, reading some book and fully engrossed. So much so that I missed the big thud. My best friend didn’t though, she on the other bed staring into her laptop, popped up in concern. What was that? Under one of the chairs on our small patio was […]
Mojo Love
I spied her while I was hiding under the bed, hiding because this place was totally new to me. New place, new smells, new humans, and well… being under the bed in the dark, cramped space made me feel comfortable. Then they came in. What felt like a crowd of people and her. […]
Animal Love
The first time I saw her I had a knowing; she was coming home with me. She was curled up at the back of a kennel, hiding behind the single dog bed, a 15 lb shaggy potentially the ugliest dog I have ever seen in person with that shared the space with her. She […]