When I was a kid my grandparents had a cat that thought it was a raccoon. See, we had this family of raccoons living in our backyard, and they would come to our back door and we would feed them crusts of bread. One would sit on the little shelf outside the kitchen window and [...]

I’ve never wanted kids. When I was one myself, the thought terrified me. My mom (now, Mom, don’t go beating yourself up for some sort of unintentional childhood psychosis you fed. This is meant to be FUNNY) told me that when you were ready Jesus would put a baby in your belly. This horrified me.The [...]

Hey Everyone, guess what I’m doing this week? That’s right. I’m dog sitting. Again. Why is it that everyone, EVERYONE, around me is jetting off to fabulous destinations? Mexico, Spain, Vancouver. And if they think of me at all, is it to invite me along? Because they can’t live without my sparkly, charming wit and…um…charm? NO. [...]

Last weekend I once again found myself caring for someone else’s animal while they went off to do fun things that didn’t include me or their pet. Melissa acquired Griffin when she was in university. She called me up one day (pre email popularity when the fastest way to get hold of someone was to [...]

 Many people seem to think I’m not a dog person. This will come out at the strangest of times. Like I’ll be sitting in a conference room at work waiting for the meeting to begin, and randomly someone would turn to me and say You’re not a dog person, are you? Or I’ll be out [...]

I’m aware that I’m turning into a crazy cat lady. I’ve only been around these two darlings for 11 days and already I talk about them all the time. It’s bad enough when people talk about their babies non-stop, but at least with that I get why. They created the baby from nothing, from food [...]