This week’s podcast delves into the challenges facing the messenger delivering and the recipient accepting the message that a beloved dog or cat is overweight. Compared to this, cutting back calories and increasing exercise can be a breeze!
Read more →The previous 2 podcasts explored how the projection of our ideas about spiritual and physical freedom may affect animal health and behavior. The last of this 3-part series delves into the effects of the desire to freely impose our intellectual choices on animals too.
Read more →Continuing the exploration of the concept of freedom as it relates to companion animals, this week’s podcast considers physical freedom. Is boundless physical freedom always freedom? What do you think?
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The next three podcasts consider a theme that increasingly comes up when people describe their ideal relationship with a dog: the desire to experience freedom directly or vicariously through the animal. This first one ponders the free spirit concept. Does it exist? Or is it an illusion created by an exquisite degree of other-awareness?
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When I was in Junior High (Middle School to those belonging to the younger generation), one of my English teachers was a big fan of pop quizzes. One such quiz involved writing a short essay on the saying, “Anticipation is always greater than realization.”
Read more →Holiday Greetings This year the podcaster is taking a break and sending Season’s Greetings via the three furry muses who live in the little house on the hill. May the coming year be filled with the very best for you and your loved ones of all species. FRICA, OLLIE, BAMBOO and THE LITTLE HOUSE ON THE HILL
Read more →For me personally, no one has grasped the connection between human and animals more elegantly than naturalist Henry Beston. Now I realize that the same can be said about our relationship with microscopic life too.
Read more →It was a very dark but not stormy very early late November morning. The bedroom felt cold enough that I regretted letting the wood stove go out during the night. Everything about the cold blackness screamed, “Don’t get up! Stay in bed where it’s warm until it gets light out!” I should have listened…
Read more →When I edited this podcast, it reminded me of two things. One was a study published last summer that revealed that some people would rather give themselves electrical shocks than be alone with their thoughts. Another was something said by sculptor Auguste Rodin: Patience is also a form of action. If we always want to be doing something rather than nothing, that’s a personal choice. But when we expect the animals in our lives to always want to do something with us, that’s when life can get complicated for all of us.
Read more →Imagine you had a neophobic cat. In other words your cat was fearful of anything or anyone new that entered your home. And because these additions frightened the cat, he sought to neutralize their negative effect by peeing on them to signal his claim. Under those circumstances I image most of us would make the same assumption a client who had such a cat did. In her mind, the cat was always peeing everywhere. But the cat wasn’t really. It just seemed that way because she was an avid shopper as well as a highly social person. As a result, she often received deliveries
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