PutterHave you heard of Dogster? It's an online community for dog lovers to blog about their pets.
Each of our four dogs (Putter, Bella, Lily and Kalli) has their own dog page. And much like mine, their blogs are infrequently updated! I tend to update them once a year, and it's usually on a weekend when it's either really cold or raining and I'm looking for something to do other than laundry. ;0
You can search Dogster for dogs by city, and by today's count there are 47 dog blogs from Paducah (of course, four of those are mine). Here's Putter's Dogster page, which has photo links to our other three fur babies.
If you're not a dog person, there's also Catster. And I have to confess I have four cats too, but no cat blogs. (But I won't tell them if you won't!).
And don't even mention the word "cat" to Patience's whippets...they're still barking among themselves about the "award featuring their 'servant' photographed with a cat."
So Patience, my Dogs completely understand those misgivings...they think cats are for chasing, not worthy of sleeping in their bed and shouldn't be allowed in the same room as Dogs. "Dogs rule to chase." But that's their philosophy, not ours. In "Evansville," Bill and I [think we] are the supreme rulers of Dogs and cats, so the "no cat chasing" rule applies. And Dogs hate that rule. But cats love it.
However, squirrels are "every squirrel for himself" based on Lily's rule (check out Lily's page on Dogster). And since no Dog has caught a squirrel, we can live with Lily's rule...for now. The cats, well we're teaching Dogs a prayer we say at bedtime that begins with, "We Dogs love cats and we promise not to chase them. Amen." We'll have to work with them on the squirrels.
Dogster and Catster are free of charge unless you want to upgrade your pages with "bells and whistles." There are also lots of breed-specific forums to join if you want to get involved in their online communities. And you can search for adoptable pets by breed and location!
KalliI actually found Kalli on a Dogster search last summer for adoptable pets. She was a rescue living in Oklahoma, and was about one year old. She's a pug mix, but we suspect the "mix" is daschund because she has very short legs, wide feet and a long body...but she's quite cute and personable! Kalli and Lily, our other pug mix, are what I refer to as "puglets." Pugs of unknown histories....
Bill reluctantly drove to Oklahoma to pick up Kalli (he didn't really want any more dogs as we already had Putter, Bella and Lily). But he was already visiting friends in Arkansas when I adopted her over the Internet, so it was a fairly short detour west for him to pick her up and bring her "forever" home.
Please note, we had to pass a thorough pet-adoption screening before we could adopt her which included vet referrals and committing to keep her as an inside pet, yearly shots, monthly heartworm medicine and flea/tick topical treatments. Also, Kalli was spayed before we picked her up.
The funny thing is that she somehow imprinted on Bill during the 10-hour drive back to Paducah and now she's "his" dog. Kalli shadows him everywhere. She even snoozes on top of the couch behind his neck while he watches television. She'll occasionally leave his side to find me for a quick cuddle, and then's she's gone to find Bill. And don't let him fool you -- he loves every minute of it!
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 at 05:30PM 
Wow, I only thought it was cold outside on January 25. Now with trees loaded with ice and a light snow falling along with the temperature, and it looks like we’ll have a low of 17 degrees tonight. I occasionally hear the snap of tree limbs cracking and falling on the golf course behind our house. I haven’t seen any large branches down but there are lots of small limbs littering the ice covered ground. I threw out some stale bread for the birds and dropped some pistachio nuts under the trees for the squirrels. I feel sorry for them trying to find food in this weather.
