Category: Critter Chronicles

  • Unbecca Craft

    But At Home, He’s a Lover

    We went to the vet this morning…  my body still hurts. We left the house intact. The vet pored over every inch of both Maybe and Brick for their semiannual wellness check. Things were going well, we talked about Maybe – if not more mobile, definitely happier now that she’s back on carprofen. We talked about […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    1200 Pound Dog with a Funny Bone

    When it comes to dares, I’m short on smarts …and shorter on skill.

  • Unbecca Craft

    Dogs: From Couch to Campsite

    Two months ago we made a half assed effort to test the dogs in the travel trailer.  We only went 15 minutes from home, took two cars and I brought the dogs home to take a nap midday, we had full hookups…  Overall, it was ok, Brick hated outside but we were content to leave […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    The Deck Box Affair

    By Bricklock Holmes The scent is fresh. Male. Approximately three ounces in weight. Well-fed. Nervous. Smells of discarded peanut. Old nemesis. His mistake: lingering too long in my Spotland Yard. Reluctantly, I enlist the help of my sidekick, Chief Inspector Thumbs. I’ve frequently made clear my genius, but I am cursed with nothing but legs. […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    Lunch with a Ringwraith

    For all of their lives I have used my midday work break to go home and let the dogs out. I have one hour to travel the 11 miles to Mordor and back, dodging feral Teslas on autopilot like they’re the orcs of Sauron. If I’m lucky, the goblins of Moria go right out to […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    Machiavellian Maybe

    If you have ever read, googled, listened to a podcast, or been advised by the “experts” on dog behavior, you’ve probably heard the same lecture over and over: dogs do not plot, scheme, or act out of revenge or malice. “Dogs live in the present. They lack the cognitive ability to plan or plot for […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    The Plotz Thickens

    Way back, in the ‘80s, everyone walked home from school; the soft-footed kids of today just don’t know…  My walk home included crossing a pretty busy street.  There was a crosswalk, and I did use it, but you really felt what that frog was going through trying to get to the other side before a […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    Foxtails; Detri-mental health

    Earlier this evening, I took John and Yoko for a post-dinner stroll. We didn’t make it one house length before Dumb and Dumber plunged their pilfering faces into a cluster of dead weeds. Almost instantly, Brick started sneezing. violently. spraying everything in a ten-snoot radius with blood spatter. After an hour, my parental panic took […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    Absolutely Maybe

    It’s been an expensive year as far as vet bills are concerned, we’ve just passed the low five figure mark as Maybe’s gone and busted the remaining hip.  When her right hip was dislocated, I had no idea. I saw the weakness but she is also positive for Cushing’s and muscle weakness is a symptom […]

  • Unbecca Craft

    Fish On!

    I actually got my butt in gear early this morning, early for me, earlier than the hot. I wanted to give the dogs a walk before it was miserable out – and I also had a long list of things I wanted to accomplish outside before miserable tested my Secret. We were only about 500 […]