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Protecting Your Pets from Natural Disasters

Yesterday, a tragic event happened in Oklahoma and through other areas of  ”tornado alley” when a tornado as large as two miles wide destroyed homes, communities and most horribly, lives. Living in Nebraska, also located in the area of the country where unpredictable cyclones are a yearly concern, weather has always had the power to scare me. I grew up hearing tornado sirens shreiking and seeing, as…  

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What Personality Type is Your Pet?

Apart from pets that get lost as a result of some kind of natural disaster, professional pet detectives who search for missing pets say that it’s the pet’s personality has a lot of do with them going missing from their homes in the first place. “If your pet has easy access to the outdoors and suddenly vanishes, ask yourself ‘what’s happened?’” says Kat Albrecht founder…  

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Detickification: How to Safely Remove a Tick

We’ve done ticks here before – and I’ve spent a lot of words focusing on the ‘yuck’ factor. Ticks are gross, and not only are they gross, they are gross, too. And just when you thought they could not possibly get any grosser, they do, just lying there, doing the 400 meters in the gross Olympics and taking home the gold. But, what does one…  

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A Mother’s Day Thank You

A few years ago I was introduced to a man not much younger than I am. “Your name sounds familiar,” he said. “Was your mom a teacher?” I told him that she was, and that she loved the work so much she returned to the classroom as a teacher’s aide after she retired, and that at almost 80 now she still volunteers to work with…  

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