One of Kathleen’s friends gave her goldfish for her birthday. She always wanted goldfish, for some reason. I asked her if they would get bored swimming around their tiny bowl, but she claims they can only remember things for three seconds. It takes about four seconds to swim around the bowl so life can’t be [...]
Snowy the Dog
When we left Porepunkah in early 2006 we sadly said good-bye to Snowy the pup. He was the first dog we had owned since Juliet and I had children. The big kids liked him and the twins grew up with him. We wanted to take Snowy with us to Western Australia, but the travel arrangements [...]
Two little kittens
We’ve inherited two kittens who basically adopted us. We don’t know what to do. Originally we thought they belonged to the people next door. Great, our kids can play with kittens, minus any responsibility. Wrong. The kittens are both black. We’ve seen the mother a few times, which we assumed wrongly was next door’s cat. [...]
Driving the dog
I don’t understand people who walk their dogs while driving a car. I first encountered this peculiar behavior at Kalgoorlie when I used to take morning strolls at the back of the golf course. I was enjoying my solitude one day when suddenly these yapping poodles came charging towards me with their owner trailing behind [...]
Groggy doggy
Sooty was fixed on Tuesday. Unsurprisingly, she came home groggy and out of sorts. The vet made her wear a lampshade around her neck to stop her from licking her wound and getting it infected. She has to keep that on until next Friday. The poor pup didn’t know what was going on; she moaned [...]
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