Ocean Dreamer

Today my sweet girl Cassie turns three!  She’s a great dog and, as I’ve written on here recently, she and I have developed a closer bond over the past year or so, which has been wonderful.  Happy birthday, girl.

A bit late, but here are some photos from Pride last weekend. I went to many of the events and loved it. Last year I skipped most of them because of my parents’ Conservative Cruise got into Seattle the same weekend. (Yes, you read that right. People from Fox News and [...]

For most of the 2 years that Cassie has been part of the family, she has been a dog dog (as opposed to a people dog, like Zoe.  That is, Cassie used to be ambivalent about people but adore other dogs, whereas Zoe was the opposite).  Over the past few months, though, Cass and I [...]

Sorry for the lack of posts for the past week.  Its been a pretty busy week between school and life in general.
I had friends over for a BBQ on Monday - it was a random mix of people but everyone seemed to have fun. The weather turned out to be nice (they were threatening [...]

Yesterday I caught Cassie happily chewing on a bar of soap.  Yes, you read that right, soap.  Isn’t soap sometimes used as a punishment by parents (not that I endorse this approach)?  This was aloe soap, but still.  Ugh.

Yesterday I did my first round of inseminations. All things considered, they went pretty well. Some friends had really hilarious stories about their first times, but mine went off pretty smoothly … except for the dogs.
For the uninitiated, the sperm comes in a small vile stored in a large tank of liquid nitrogen. [...]

You may know that the dog training community is currently divided into two main factions: “traditional” trainers who follow what is known as pack theory and positive or clicker trainers whose methods are based on animal learning theory. I am proud to fall into the second group, though I’ll leave the critiques of pack [...]