Comments on: 25 Days with Pumpkin: Lessons from the Family Cat http://www.sheerbalance.com/mind-body/25-days-with-pumpkin-lessons-from-the-family-cat/ Healthy Living, Nutrition, Fitness, Mind-Body, Eco-Living Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:06:44 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Brett Blumenthal http://www.sheerbalance.com/mind-body/25-days-with-pumpkin-lessons-from-the-family-cat/comment-page-1/#comment-5469 Brett Blumenthal Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:52:51 +0000 http://www.sheerbalance.com/brettsblog/?p=1399#comment-5469 Chris! Thanks so much for your comment. Anything with fur really tends to worm their way into our hearts...life would be just boring and dull without them. Hoping to get a furry four-legged fireball feline soon. Now, say that four times fast! Chris! Thanks so much for your comment. Anything with fur really tends to worm their way into our hearts…life would be just boring and dull without them. Hoping to get a furry four-legged fireball feline soon. Now, say that four times fast!

]]> By: Chris Marchell http://www.sheerbalance.com/mind-body/25-days-with-pumpkin-lessons-from-the-family-cat/comment-page-1/#comment-5468 Chris Marchell Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:46:33 +0000 http://www.sheerbalance.com/brettsblog/?p=1399#comment-5468 Dear Brett, My yellow lab, Posse, is almost 10 and has been with me since she was 8 weeks. (I had two other labs then as well - Buffy and Nugget - names they arrived with and I couldn't bear to change. Plus Posse is short for Possum, the name she was given at birth.) Posse prefers yellow and purple tennis balls in the pool to green and red; knows the meaning of "Ten more minutes" when I want a few more minutes of book time or sleep; has a dog vocabulary of whines, woofs and growls that I can interpret with ease, and in spite of her upbringing surrounded by Auntie Labs, she hates other dogs. Go figure. She looks young but her hips are shot, she hates to take her meds, and insists on a potty break and snack at about three o'clock in the morning. We are about to move into a new home without a dog door or a pool for the first time in her life, but I think we will both adapt. I wish she could fit under my seat on a plane, or that it was easier to ship her via cargo when I come back east for short visits. Most airlines don't take pets in cargo anymore, especially flights that originate or end in Phoenix during the summer. And yes, I too have developed allergies to dogs and cats and wake up in the morning stuffy and red-eyed. But I wouldn't trade her for anything. Chris Dear Brett,

My yellow lab, Posse, is almost 10 and has been with me since she was 8 weeks. (I had two other labs then as well – Buffy and Nugget – names they arrived with and I couldn’t bear to change. Plus Posse is short for Possum, the name she was given at birth.)

Posse prefers yellow and purple tennis balls in the pool to green and red; knows the meaning of “Ten more minutes” when I want a few more minutes of book time or sleep; has a dog vocabulary of whines, woofs and growls that I can interpret with ease, and in spite of her upbringing surrounded by Auntie Labs, she hates other dogs. Go figure.

She looks young but her hips are shot, she hates to take her meds, and insists on a potty break and snack at about three o’clock in the morning. We are about to move into a new home without a dog door or a pool for the first time in her life, but I think we will both adapt.

I wish she could fit under my seat on a plane, or that it was easier to ship her via cargo when I come back east for short visits. Most airlines don’t take pets in cargo anymore, especially flights that originate or end in Phoenix during the summer.

And yes, I too have developed allergies to dogs and cats and wake up in the morning stuffy and red-eyed. But I wouldn’t trade her for anything.

Chris

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