Of Annoying Neighbors, Griping and Motorcycling

I gripe a lot. It’s what I do. And I never seem to lack things to gripe about. For example I could gripe about the tools that live next door to me and likely called Animal Control on me last week for barking and/or dangerous dogs (after one of them made gun gestures with his hand [...]

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Downtown Indy to Northside Commuter Train FINALLY?

I just might wet my pants over this. There is a proposal to create a commuter diesel train that runs on the tracks from Fishers to downtown (aka the State Fair Train route) in the next 2-4 YEARS. It would run from 6-9 in the morning and 4-6 in the evening. My work office is [...]

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She Fell Through the Cracks

About 3 weeks ago, I picked up a beautiful, 10-month old playful great pyrenees at IACC (Indianapolis Animal Care and Control) for IGPR named Daisy. She was an owner-surrender at HSI who made her way down to IACC via the new “policy”.  Jo and I were walked back to the kennel section to retrieve her which was very hard for me – [...]

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More on the Pet Food Recall

This time it pertains to treats. I think in many ways while the food recall last year was so very tragic for many dogs, cats and their owners, it shed light on bad manufacturing practices and has made people generally more aware of what they feed their dogs and cats which is a good thing. The latest [...]

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I Love a Bargain and I Am Going to Miss My Neighbors

I’ve been coveting some hiking sandals from Keen for quite sometime. They aren’t Manolo Blahniks (translation they are ugly) but I’ve been told they are very comfortable. I love these and these but have been reticent to fork over the $100 bucks. Today for kicks and giggles I went out on eBay perusing the selection of [...]

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The Definition of Insanity

I joke about mental illness in my blog posts sometimes - I think I did this mostly as a coping mechanism for the bad bout ofdepression I dealt with last year.  But when you come face to face with a true debilitating mental illness, there is nothing at all funny about it and I was reminded of this at 3am last [...]

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On Using Prong Collars

Blogging back and forth with Al has inspired me to write a post on my experience with prong collars. Let me first put a disclaimer here that I am NOT a certified dog trainer or behaviorist. Through my experiences with rescue and my own dogs I have done research and made the decision to use [...]

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Never a Dull Moment

Update: After a somewhat harrowing and long day, Jojo is home and stitched up. After a relatively uneventful night, the makeshift t-shirt + makeup pad dressing came off and the flap opened up and started bleeding again kind of profusely. I called John Rose who said bring her right over because it was a few [...]

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Fun-Haters Beware!

One has to wonder in this day and age what with the availability of camera phones and public blogs why anyone would act openly like an a$$hole in public. Who could forget the drunk and passed out girl at the Cubs game with mysterious liquid on her pants? Incidentally, that photo is my most frequently-viewed [...]

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