The compassionate and complicated chicken!

Each Monday I will spotlight a companion animal that, for a variety of reasons, is commonly misperceived.  Today’s animal is a species that I used to think was unintelligent and boring, until I worked closely with them for many years.   Meet the amazing, incredible, compassionate, and intelligent CHICKEN! Did you know these amazing facts …

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Who’s Walking Whom?

 Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.  It is amazing how much love and laughter they bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them. ― John Grogan, Marley and …

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Baby It’s Cold Outside

Originally Posted Winter 2013 I grew up in the harsh winters of Kansas.  As a kid, winter was bliss.  I didn’t have to shovel snow, or scrape the icy windshield;  I got to play in it.   However, my dad believed that the dogs were fine out there in the dead of winter, unless there …

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