Mammal Mondays: Pup in a Box

Sweet Sherman is crate trained, meaning that he sleeps in his kennel when I’m at work, and when I need him out from underfoot so that he doesn’t attempt very bad things, like attempting to steal hot food from the top of the stove. Crate training is a pretty standard practice among dog owners right…

Mammal Mondays: All Bite and No (More) Bark

Most dogs pee on trees. Sherman eats them. Exhibit A: The flowering purple something-or-other bush in the backyard and the other lovely (but probably-not-flowering shrub), last September. Note the innocent appearance of the beast in the foreground. I spent much of the winter looking forward to my trees and shrubs bursting forth with new life….