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The Dog Blog with Kathryn Socie
Don’t Leave Home without It
I barely have to leave the backyard before I find my dogs munching, crunching and rolling in something entirely too foul to speak of. With abundant wildlife occupying seemingly every square inch of open space in Montana, it's no surprise that there's an equal amount of festering carcasses and nasty poo. With whole animals, chunks of flesh, limbs and hooves all in various stages of decay laying about the woods and grasslands in a kind of canine all-you-can-eat smorgasbord, how could any dog resist the temptation?! [more]
The Dog Blog with Kathryn Socie
Two Dog Nights (and a couple of cats in the middle)
My dogs sleep with me. Well, actually, I share my bed with two dogs splayed out, dreaming wildly, and two very restless cats that snore-- it's a crowd and not at all conducive to actual sleep. Sandwiched in between two contentedly tired dogs, while cats nestle on top of one another and curl up on my chest (making it difficult to breathe at times), is a moment of the day I have come to relish. Despite all of this delight, my sleeping arrangement is highly contentious and on so many different levels.
Not long after bringing my first dog home from the local Humane Society well over a decade ago, I found myself in the midst of the oddest discussion with my mother in which she expressed genuine concern about my marriage-ability. According to her, no man would marry me if a dog slept on my bed.
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