Tink was born without front legs.Okay, if this isn't the embodiment of joy, I don't know what is. Say hi to Tink, and learn more about her over at FidoBlog!
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A Truly Oscar-Worthy Performance!
Oscar, the world's first bionic cat -- or, as I like to think of him,a very modern pirate kitty. He's stolen our hearts. ARRRRRRR!Oscar, a native of Britain's Channel Islands, lost an argument with the business end of a combine harvesting machine. The results weren't pretty. Having seen the results of a similar accident with a kitten when I was very small, I can say this with
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Amazing Grace
Thanks to our friend Caryn for this latest cute kitteh, star of today's love story:It really needs no other commentary, so I'll just share it with you here. Always happy to have some GOOD news to spread around! And here's the song to go with it!
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Haiku for a small gray cat
I was going through some files today and ran across this little poem -- a long haiku -- I wrote about Idgie. I wrote it three years before Almost Perfect came out, and can see the beginnings of my frustration with people's attitudes toward special needs pets.Art is kewl. I need rain or at Least I could use a lesson From a small gray cat See me,
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She's BAAAA-AACK!
Barb Techel and Frankie the Walk 'n Roll Dog visit with Bryan, the very nice producerand co-host of The Breakfast Club on WCUB-AM 980 radio in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.Okay, I can't believe it's been almost two months since I posted here. Bad, BAD blogger. Well, I'm back, and happy to be here!Truth is, I needed a break -- from the blog, from the office, from my life -- so I took one! Spent most of
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