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Millionaire Heir Pets

At the end of June another story broke of a billionaire bequeathing a fortune to the family pets. In this instance, MSNBC has the report of heiress Gail Posner leaving $3 million and continued use of her mansion to her Chihuahua Conchita, only giving $1 million to her son. The son, Brett Carr, claims that his mother’s staff brainwashed her in the last years of her life into leaving her fortune to her pets, and by extension, them. Some members of the staff have been retained to take care of Conchita and two other dogs in Posner’s mansion. They will … Continue reading →

Wagging My Tail Goodbye to the Pets Blog

I’m sitting in my office looking out the window watching the snow melt from the rooftops and bushes as I’m writing this. Last night we got measureable snow, a bit of an oddity in December for us here in Nashville. Whenever we get snow like this now I think about the first winter I was writing for Families.com. We got snow one February and I took Murph outside to play in it, then wrote about it as my blog for the day later. How much inspiration I’ve drawn from my pets over the past two years since I first began … Continue reading →

Thanksgiving Love Stories: Home for the Holidays

Last year at this time Wayne and I were in Denver to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family. I remember being so excited about getting to spend a whole week with Wayne. Thanksgiving, Then and Now It was a big deal because we’d spent months apart enduring a commuter marriage. But then Wayne decided not to stay with the job in Jacksonville and to get his old job back here in Nashville. I was over the moon! (Mostly because I was tired of trying to keep the house show-ready and over only seeing him on weekends.) Last year, Thanksgiving week marked … Continue reading →

Stick to ‘Em! How You and Your Pet Can Keep Your 2007 Resolutions

Ah, the New Year. Fresh starts, new beginnings, and resolutions. What’s yours? Lose weight? Get organized? Spend more time with your loved ones? With the second week of the New Year drawing to a close and the third week about to begin, how are those resolutions shaping up? Are you sticking to them? If the answer is, “No,” or “Just barely,” take heart. This is about the time enthusiasm starts to wane (if it hasn’t died completely already), Real Life returns with all of its demands, and it’s very easy to find ways not to accomplish your goals. But never … Continue reading →

4 Paws For Ability Places Service Dogs With Kids Who Need Them

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When you think of a service dog, you probably think of the service dogs that assist people who are blind. This is only one example of how service dogs can help people who have special needs. 4 Paws for Ability places trained service dogs with people of all ages who have a disability. Unlike many other organizations that provide service dogs, 4 Paws for Ability will place their service dogs with children. Service dogs are starting to be used to assist people who have many different types of disabilities. You may have heard of seeing eye dogs, but there are … Continue reading →

Is Dirty the New Clean?

Filthy is hot… at least according to the New York Times. The fancy schmancy paper is telling busy moms, who struggle to find time to bathe, and others, who simply shun showers and prefer not to wear deodorant, that they are part of a hot, hip and happening new trend. Whatever. So basically, if you are dirty, smelly and unshaven, then you are super cool. Now there’s a concept I want my kids to embrace. Not. The paper claims that more and more people are resisting society’s expectations regarding basic personal hygiene. What’s more, the rancid smelling rebels the paper … Continue reading →

Cats and Dogs Really Can Get Along

They’re as universal an example of opposites as up and down, day and night, right and left. Even the line “cats and dogs getting along” is sometimes used as a turn of phrase for unbelievable events. Thus there’s an idea out there that one has to be either a cat person or a dog person. One can’t love both equally, or one certainly can’t have both as pets without inviting a fur-flying frenzy into the home. At best they’ll get along by avoiding each other for the most part, and at worst they’ll need to be separated. Except that simply … Continue reading →

The Law of Attraction, Cozies and Cats: An Interview with Author Jennie Bentley

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about how I wish I knew any authors who featured cats in their work so I could interview them for the Pets Blog. Well, in yet another display of the Law of Attraction at work, wouldn’t you know my wish was granted this past Sunday when I was on a panel at the Southern Festival of books with Bente Gallagher who writes as Jennie Bentley? Her first mystery in her DIY Home Renovation Mystery series is called Fatal Fixer Upper and it’s due out November 4th. In the process of talking about her book … Continue reading →

Animals with Unusual Aspirations

Every once in a while odd notions pop into my head. (Okay, more than just once in a while.) The past few months, though, I keep having thoughts about animals with unusual aspirations. I’m not sure if they’re potential children’s book titles or just humorous musings meant to poke me when my subconscious thinks I need a laugh. Whatever they are –or may one day become– they make me smile. With all the bad news in the media recently, I thought I’d share them with you in the hopes perhaps they’ll bring a little levity to your life, too. The … Continue reading →

Scrapbooking You

Have you thought about what you scrapbook the most pictures of? More than likely it is your children, your pets, your family or a hobby or activity that someone you know participates in. Do you remember to scrapbook you? It is important for us to tell our own story, not just the stories of everyone else in our lives. You matter a lot in the big picture, and in order for future generations to see a complete picture, they need to see you in those albums too. The Early Years You need to dig out those adorable baby, toddler and … Continue reading →