Have you ever heard of the Hambone Award? It’s a prize given out by Veterinary Pet Insurance, the nation’s largest and oldest pet insurance company. Each month, the company selects the most unusual claims and chooses a monthly winner to vie for the yearly prize – the Hambone Award. Don’t worry, all the contenders are […]
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Before I publish my vacation diary, I would like to say a few words about some unexpected feelings I encountered upon returning home. Ending a vacation is always a chore, and for an in-the-process-of-being-reformed-worrywart like me, it’s easy to get caught up in dreading the negatives that accompany getting back to normal life; ie, returning
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Our kids had two snow days off school this week, so what better activity for a family full of animal lovers than to visit the pet store? You can see where this is going… we went looking for 1 baby rat, and we came home with 2 baby rats and a bunny. One ridiculously cute
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My little parakeet JJ passed away some time during the night last night. Not much of a surprise there; he has been sick for a while, and even though he began looking well again a few weeks ago, he took a turn for the worse in the last few days. He looked so awful yesterday
JJ, my parakeet, is very sick. I had parakeets when I was younger, and I know enough about them to know that we are lucky that he’s still alive. His chirping and squawking gradually decreased until I realized the other day that he doesn’t vocalize at all anymore. He is very lathargic, and sits puffed
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This post is a few weeks in the making – my daughter Sammie’s favorite rat died on October 11. She took it pretty well; I was dreading having to tell her when she got off the bus that day. She got off the bus and promptly handed her younger brother and sister each a piece
According to JJ my parakeet, the best way to spend 88 cents is on this little number: I saw this little bird toy at Walmart the other day, and even though I knew it would scare the heck out of my scaredy-cat parakeet, I bought it anyway. It’s a piece of plastic in the shape
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He is our puppy and he’s cute. But still, you’ve got to appreciate the idiocy of this puppy predictament – a delicious scent awaits in the baby’s playpen. What is one to do? Why, get stuck in a moron’s photo opp, of course… Lisa
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As you might have read in my blog previously, we have a pet Scarlet Macaw parrot. His name is Squawky, although he is more ‘screamy’ than he is ‘squawky’. Occasionally when the weather is warm enough, we take Squawky outside – he either goes for walks with our family or he gets tied to a
Our little puppy Gizmo is now about 6 months old, and we’ve been marveling at what a handsome young man he’s become. But yesterday, he had his appointment for his, um, fixing. He handled it like a trouper, and we haven’t noticed any behavior changes, positive nor negative. We’re happy the little guy is ok,
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