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Goose Guardian Angels for Mother’s Day

Heather Vale Goss — Sun, 09 May 2010 20:43:10 +0000

For Mother’s Day today, Barry took Konan and I to the park for a walk. Part of the outing included going down to the river’s edge to see the families of geese that always hang out there. I always smile at the fact that the local goose is the Canada goose. It’s cool to know [...]

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Self-Esteem Lessons from Dog Shows

Heather Vale Goss — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:17:33 +0000

I’ve been chosen to be a regular contributor to the new online magazine, Life As A Human. My latest article starts out: The other day I saw an episode of The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. He’s the best I’ve seen when it comes to understanding a dog’s emotions, actions and thought processes. This time [...]

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If Humans Had Tails…

Heather Vale Goss — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:18:23 +0000

The other day, I saw an episode of The Dog Whisperer with Cesar Millan. He’s the best I’ve seen when it comes to understanding a dog’s emotions, actions and thought processes, and this time I began wondering how life could be different for us if we were more like dogs. Somebody brought him a “hopeless” [...]

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Don’t Forget the Pets

Heather Vale Goss — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:36:32 +0000

It’s no secret that I’ve had a lot of pets in my time. I used to have a lot of rodents — hamsters, gerbils, mice, guinea pigs, and a chinchilla — and rabbits (which are not rodents)… and then it was cats. Yup, I’ve still got a cat and a hamster. And sometimes it’s fun [...]

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Farewell, My Special Friend

Heather Vale Goss — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:06:14 +0000

This weekend I lost a very special friend. Mercury, who I considered to be my feline soulmate in many ways, was killed by a car right outside our house. I didn’t want her to be an outdoor cat, even the part-time status she had, for that very reason. But Mercury had a free spirit and [...]

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The Peanut Perimeter

Heather Vale — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 06:50:54 +0000

Animals are dumb sometimes. And Barry thinks ours are the dumbest of all. I’m not sure I agree with that, but I see his point, because they sure do some dumb and crazy things sometimes. Far too many to mention here! But then again, their small brains often allow them to do things that we [...]

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Love Without Limits… Even in the Animal Kingdom

Heather Vale — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:12:35 +0000

Since today is Barry’s birthday, I’d like to share something very private with you. Saturday night when I went to bed, Barry said he was right behind me… but instead, he got distracted by something special. Yesterday morning he surprised me with a video that moved both of us to tears (yes, even Barry, often [...]

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Black Squirrels and Yellow Houses

Heather Vale — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:07:33 +0000

For the past few weeks, Barry and I have been moving into our new house (the yellow color has already grown on him, and is starting to grow on me too). Yes, we did the bulk of it already, but there have been some smaller things that we had to go back for as we’ve [...]

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16 Deer, 2 Llamas, 1 Sheep, Baby Geese and a Wild Turkey

Heather Vale — Tue, 06 May 2008 06:03:56 +0000

Saturday evening, Barry and I took an impromptu drive through Colonial Valley, a nearby little oasis of wildlife that we had never visited before, but had heard all about the beauty. And it was almost as good as going to the zoo… maybe even better, because we got to see animals in their wild habitat, [...]

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False Sense of Safety In The Box

Heather Vale — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:54:23 +0000

Today Barry and I picked up some plastic storage boxes at Wal-Mart, and one of them had a small cardboard rectangle inside… I’m not sure what the purpose of it was, since it wasn’t cushioning anything, but it fit loosely within the perimeter of the container. A low semi-box inside a box. Or rather, a [...]

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