Tag: Jan/Feb 2022
By Mary Green
CPDT-KA: Certified Professional Dog Trainer Knowledge Assessed
CDBC: Certified Dog Behavior Counselor
CNWI: Certified Nose Work Instructor K9 Manners & More, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma
How well do you know your dog? You know her
favorite treat. You know where her favorite napping spot is. You know the differences in her...
by Lauren Cavagnolo
Photographs courtesy of the Owasso Fire Department
He doesn’t have the spots of a traditional Dalmatian firehouse dog, but he can stop, drop, and roll.
Fahren (short for Fahrenheit) is a Goldendoodle that Anthem Service Dogs donated to the Owasso Fire Department. He accompanies Assistant Chief Arami Goldstein to...
by Rowena Mills
My little dog Cornelius — who was calm and well behaved at
home — howled piteously and pooped in his carrier every time I put him in the car to go to the vet throughout his 14-year life. I talked soothingly to him and stroked his head, but...
by Kim Doner
It’s interesting what happens when you open up the doors and windows of your
life, figuratively speaking. All sorts of things find their way in, such as unexpected revelations, new friends, hobbies you never knew existed, strays of all sorts — people, cats, dogs.
Lizards.
I leaned forward, studying Clyde....
by Karen Dugan Holman, B.S., B.S.E., M.S.
Scrunch scrunch, jingle jingle, click clack. Those were the sounds that
grew familiar to me while growing up in my family’s 1960s rambling ranch-style home. I was hearing heavy canvas rubbing together, zippered compartments, and the boots of my dad’s flight suit as he...
by Jennie Lloyd
Four winters ago, Rosemary Daugherty met Noel, her 85-pound English bulldog, and was immediately smitten.
He is fawn-colored with tan spots and what Rosemary calls “his constellation ears.” His soft cowlike little earflaps are dotted with chocolate brown spots. As she pats his broad chest, she says, “This...
Story and photographs by Nancy Gallimore
“Might be bred.”
The words stood out on the paperwork like a beacon piercing the fog.
Glancing down at my new spotted charge, the word might quickly turned to is as my increasingly overwhelmed brain registered her plump belly. Jim, my partner in life and in...
by Rowena Mills
Cats have had a role in the British government since the early sixteenth
century, when Cardinal Thomas Wolsey kept his feline by his side while acting as Lord Chancellor for King Henry VIII. Official records, however, date only to June 3, 1929, when A. E. Banham at the...
by Heide Brandes
In 2020, nearly 90,000 cats and dogs entered Oklahoma’s 120 animal shelters. Of those, about 11,000 were euthanized.
That is a big number, but far less than the 18,000 animals that were euthanized in 2019. The reduction is partly because of Common Bonds, a new organization supported by...
