The Kittalog

Jackson and Lucy are 11 and 13 years old now. They both used to be much more energetic and robust (me, too!), but now they spend most of ...

Jackson is a good sport when it comes to modeling knitwear. I knit this last weekend with one skein of Tahki Yarns' Boulder, a super-ch...

It's Stock Show time again, which means we've survived the holidays and can think about eating again. The Stock Show is mostly about...

I love well-designed products that fill a need perfectly and make life a little easier. The gate we had made for the bottom of the stairs, ...

A few years ago, Sophie and I were out walking when a woman stopped her car and told me about her standard poodle group on meetup.com. The g...

We love it when Jackson the Big White Poodle finds friends who like to play as roughly as he does. He's muscular and rambunctious, and ...

When you've spent as much time at the dog park as I have, you notice when things have changed. Just like the bee tree that fell, anothe...

Autumn is upon us. As the sun sinks lower and the days grow cooler, take the time to appreciate those precious rays.

The Sergeant is still working on refining his time-lapse set-up. Sleepy poodles are a willing subject. (Warning: The music's a little lo...

As soon as we got to the dog park, it started to rain.

After an inauspicious beginning at the dog park today (bitten on the ear by a mean dog), Jackson did some actual swimming – for the very fir...

Furry Scurry!

Custom oak pet gate on spring-loaded hinges installed today.

Long-suffering Lucy is on the DL again.

Whoops. Schmutz on the lens!

We really had hoped that the dogs and the cats could reach some sort of detente. So many people told us, "Oh, they'll work things o...

Sophie never thought anything good could come of a ride in the car. But Jackson and Lucy are enthusiastic commuters. We make them wait on th...

Sent this from my cellphone. The landscape looks all devastated because it was clearcut by the Army Corps of Engineers. That section of rive...