I hope all of you in the States had a great Thanksgiving! Ours was very nice, if a bit complicated logistically. Because my mom is in reha...

Rita is apparently blowing her summer undercoat out at the moment. She normally sheds a good bit all year long, but now it's just nutty....

I've had a terrible cold for almost a week now - the worst cold I've had in a while. Rita has been very sympathetic. And very intere...

Does your dog have a "nuttiness trigger"? You know... where one minute they're just walking along like a normal pooch, and the...

We've been having what the weatherman calls "unseasonably warm" weather in San Diego recently. (I would call it "grossly ...

As I mentioned last Monday, we're dog-sitting our nephew, Reggie the corgi, at the moment. Here's a pic of Rita and Reg on our wal...

We are dog-sitting Reggie right now. (If you're new around here, Reg is my sister's corgi). When Rita and Reg get together there...

We were away last week on vacation so took a little bloggy break. Missed you guys! Catching up on recent mischief today, and hopefully I...

If you've read my first book, What the Dog Ate , you know it starts with a woman finding out at her vet's office that her dog has ea...

Do you know that saying that "only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun"? Well, you can add us to that list. ...

Back long ago when I first started this blog, we had a very kissy dog. This girl right here, angel Abby: "Turn the camera off so...

Doesn't it seem like the weather's crazy everywhere lately? It certainly was here in San Diego this weekend. Everybody knows Califor...

I'm not a big fan of Hollywood news, but if you've been online at all recently, you probably saw that "Ben & Jen" (...

Last week, Jodi at Heart Like a Dog, who frequently writes cute posts about the funny or sweet things her dogs do that make her smile, wr...

Friday, June 26 is Take Your Dog to Work Day .  Luckily, I've been working from home since 2000. For a long time I worked as a research...

With our 2 previous dogs, they never wanted their walks to end. Bailey would dawdle along, sniffing and exploring for ages if'd you let ...

We are coming to grips with the fact that our dog is lazy. I've mentioned before that Rita's not really that into playing fetch. O...

This past weekend, the hubs and I went away for one night, so my sis came and dog-sat Rita for us.  After some initial barking when my sis...

My mom has a collection of teddy bears. But Rita never tries to snag the ones that aren't "hers." My mom has one little lave...

Last week I blogged about our hike with Rita in Marian Bear Canyon in San Diego and the mischief therein. Well, this weekend, we went back,...