Wild Kingdom

  • Cheese Wrapper Party Trick for Dogs
    We’d shown off our two dogs for visitors before by demonstrating our dogs’ prowess at playing the Go Find It game and their understanding of sign language. We’d even shown our dogs’ love for sliced cheese, which is a joy …
  • Used Dog, Free to Good Home
    She was a dreamboat(What were her previous owners thinking?) We often hesitate to adopt a dog from the dog pound because we figure we don’t know what we’re getting into adopting somebody else’s used dog. We assume that if the …
  • Dog Eats Roasted Dead Bugs
    Live bugs are a delicacy in a dog’s diet providing not only a tasty morsel, but the thrill of the chase as well. Noisy, buzzy bugs and small, easy-to-catch animals were prime targets for our dogs, including poisonous toads and …
  • Drunken Stinging Wasp
    If you’re planning a hike along a path called Bumblebee Ridge, don’t wear flowery lotion or perfume. Yes, I did it and I won’t do it again! It was our 6th wedding anniversary and we were hiking in FDR State …
  • Dog Pees From Excitement
    I called it “pee pee feet” and I hated visiting my neighbor’s house for it. Their dog peed on the floor every time he got excited which was anytime people came to visit. The worst part was that it was …
  • The Perfect Outdoor Dog Game
    Dakota was an energetic dog who needed a lot of exercise so we got her a big, bouncy ball about the size of a volleyball. We weren’t the sort to go jogging with her or rollerblading so we looked for …
  • The Right Dog
    I’ve talked to quite a few dog owners as a result of writing Bad Dog to Best Friend. Once you write a book about training a problem dog, you find yourself meeting people with problem dogs everywhere you go. One …
  • Catahoula Leopard Dog
    The Louisiana auditions for American Idol, Season 10, were about to begin. They opened the show with a picture of the Louisiana state flower (Magnolia), the Louisiana state bird (Eastern Brown Pelican), the Louisiana state reptile (alligator), and then they …
  • Robber Fly Cannibal
    It was a beautiful fall day in Georgia when a hummingbird startled me by buzzing my head. We had a colony of hummingbirds as we regularly fed them but they never buzzed my head unless I was standing near their …
  • Religion Should Be Like Dog Training
    I was listening to Bette Midler’s song “From A Distance” which looks at wars and hunger from a larger perspective. The song seems to ask, “Why can’t we all just get along and help each other?” Bette Midler’s song really …