by Mir | Dec 23, 2021 | Oh look! Something furry!!, What do I do all day?
A few weeks after we received Goose, and about a week after we said goodbye to Licorice, my phone started lighting up with messages from the rescue. Possibility of a owner surrender, yorkie/dachshund mix, 10 years old; could I take her? Otto has always said we have a...
by Mir | Nov 27, 2021 | Oh look! Something furry!!
In retrospect, it’s easy to see meaning in things where maybe there wasn’t any, but that’s the way we silly humans are, I guess. We need stories about our lives to make sense. We struggle to understand our experiences as cohesive narratives that...
by Mir | Nov 12, 2021 | Oh look! Something furry!!, What do I do all day?
Licorice lasted about 2 weeks on her new glaucoma regimen before she started squinting again, and back to the vet ho$pital we went. They put her on a third eye drop, and so far, so good. So she now gets three different eye drops three times a day, but also they have...
by Mir | Oct 18, 2021 | Oh look! Something furry!!
In the continuing saga of “old dogs are old,” Licorice has done her level best to fill the void Duncan left behind. (Understand that by “void” I mean “need for expensive trips to the vet.”) I mentioned before that she had some...
by Mir | Aug 25, 2021 | It's not a regret, it's an "experience", Offspring: ecstasy and agony, What do I do all day?
I did not mean to leave you with the depressingness of Duncan’s demise for quite so long. I apologize. We had a rough week there and then gradually settled into being able to reference and talk about him fondly and without tears. It helped that Licorice has...
