One year ago this past weekend I traveled four hours through a wind and snowstorm from Boise, ID, to Elko, Nevada to pick up a stray dog. I had only seen a couple bad pictures of the guy. He was a wild looking mess of a dog, mostly German Shepherd with a little something else…
Pretty Girl Goes Home
It was a day of joy and a day of sadness. Three months after Pretty Girl came into our lives, she has left us almost as suddenly. Tuesday she went on to her forever home. The couple that adopted her have a long history with German Shepherds. They recently lost their senior lady of the…
Yappy Holidays
I think the picture pretty much says it all. Happy holidays.
Milestones and Messes
It has been an eventful time here at chez Kittelson-McFee. Willow has marked not one, but two major events in her life with us. First, she dropped below the 75 pound mark. At the last weigh in, she tipped the scales at 74 pounds – a 14 pound drop from July! She still does not…
Snow day!
Who doesn’t like a snow day when there’s no work, no school, no responsibilities? Heck, a good snow day is fun even when you do have those things going on. Today it started snowing at about 7:30am. The pups and I took off into the great white tundra of our backyard to have a little…
the American Canine 