It's been pretty hot here - the temps aren't that bad here at the coast, but it's been unusually muggy. Rita's not a fan ...

It's almost time again for Remember Me Thursday, taking place this year on September 28. Mark your calendars! My new Remember Me Thur...

According to the The Humane Society, only 30% of pets in US households come from rescue facilities. And there are huge numbers of pets out t...

Ages ago (siriusly... ages - it was way back last June...), I posted 2 pics of buddies Gus and Ricky, who were up for adoption at Helen Wood...

Remember when Reggie and Rita had a play date in my sister's neighbor's yard?

Do you ever wonder how your beautiful pups can stand to put some of the grossest things in their mouths ?? This lovely girl is up for adop...

I snapped this goofy pic the other day at Helen Woodward , where I volunteer, when 2 of my fave pups were playing under my legs. Wanna try a...

Today it's more pics of cute rescue pups playing at Helen Woodward , the shelter where I volunteer. The little one is Charlie , the big ...

The shelter where I volunteer, Helen Woodward Animal Center , has a pretty good turnover rate for the dogs. But, once in a while, we'l...

I posted before about how "helpful" Rita is with projects around the house. This past week was no different, when I was doing som...

It's January 15, so that means it's Blog the Change for Animals day, when pet-bloggers support helping animals on the 15th of Januar...

No, I'm not writing about Rita after she comes home from the beach (although I could probably enter a sand castle competition with the a...

I was actually going to write this post with just a quick update on our yard work, but then I looked at his picture again: "Why won...

Today I've got a very Hellen-Woodward-centric post. Dr V. (not our Dr. V, whom you might remember from Abby's oncology visits, bu...

Have you heard of the popular Dog Shaming site? If you are not familiar with this phenomenon, there's a pretty funny video/report about...

As I said last week , today is a special global event: Bloggers Unite for Dog   Rescue to bring attention to the importance of dog adopti...