Miscellaneous

Having Dalmatians is kind of like having cartoon characters living in your house. But we REALLY have cartoon characters living here – check out our weekly comic strip, “Dot-Comics”, that features the entire CDKitchen family (including Widget and Browser!)

Both dogs are strict vegetarians now. Not my preferred diet, believe me (both have different medical reasons). But, they love it – as shown in this video! Like our spotted dogs before them, these are a favorite food item.

Widget will sit out next to the pool skimmers for hours waiting for a human to come out and empty the leaves. Apparently soggy cold leaves are a Dalmatian delicacy.

Widget’s latest obsession is with building what I call a “fort” on the sofa. We have the puppy sofas sitting on top of my office sofa (because face it – the dogs aren’t going to stay off the sofa, so at least this way it’s a little bit protected!). Every evening Widget has taken to […]

Recently, someone on a dog-behavior email list I’m on casually mentioned something called a “Thundershirt”. Being a curious googler I had to look it up. Turns out it is a dog sweater type thing that is supposed to help with anxiety. And if you’ve been reading this blog for long, you know I’m willing to […]

Yep, she was bit by another snake. This time it was on her snout, right next to her nose. The poor girl. She came to me right after it happened. There is this funny way she acts when something is wrong (really wrong that is) so I knew to look her over immediately. Sure enough, […]

Tomorrow is Browser’s birthday. Yep, my little boy will be two years old! I can’t believe the time has gone by so fast. He’s grown into such a wonderful dog too. And he’s still just as adorable as ever. He and Widget are best friends and play constantly. They aren’t real snuggly with each other […]