The Dog Blog
Kathryn Socie
Off-leash musings on life in a canine crazed mountain town.
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Describing both the culture and controversy of dogs in the West, the Dog Blog explores the profound connection many are capable of having with these animals and the often wacky behaviors (in both species) that ensue as a result. In a place where dogs are a bridge to social networks, an emotional crutch, a lucrative business entity and working citizens in the community, therein lies plenty of fodder for tales of the canine crazed. Tossed in the mix are musings on the hefty responsibility of being owned by a dog (or two), the utility of good canine citizenship, essays on the new work of dogs, and a decidedly lacking amount of Cesar Millan-esque wisdom.
As a double-dog lifer daily seeking jobs for her unemployed cattle dogs, Kathryn's professional dog gigs began 10 years ago doing outreach and working on the front lines for what is now the Humane Society of Western Montana. Through this work she became a kennel junkie, gained a knack for setting up second-hand dogs with phenomenal people (and vice versa), and managed to eek out an insight or two about the workings of the ever-so-complicated canine mind. Here, her four-legged sucker status grew to entirely new and unforeseeable heights. She then put her pathological draw to fixing the weak, weary, broken down, and ill-cared-for critters to work as a veterinary technician and eventually began weaving stories of her years-long career in wayward dogs into her writing.
