I was asked to write a list of my five favorite dog books for a website fittingly called Shepherd. Have a look. It’s hard to narrow down my favorites to just five, but these are ones I recommen...
Most people were pretty excited to kick 2020 to the curb and get on with 2021. Part of me wanted to go back and start 2020 over again. I was starting 2021 off with no dogs, a haircut I hated, a n...
I’m a few months late in sharing this. Watching Leo decline from cancer was worse than having it myself. I’m not yet at the point where I can write about him without crying.
How’s your pandemic going? Ours has been bad, epically bad. The worst thing that happened is that we lost Mia in May, but it wasn’t unexpected. We were so so lucky to have her in our lives as...
https://karineumeyer.com/2020/11/25/do-you-want-the-bad-news-first-or-the-really-bad-news/
While Mia can no longer walk… she can catch flying tater tots. And she can ride around in her Christmas sleigh. And go to my office Christmas party. And help us pick out our Christmas tree. ...
https://karineumeyer.com/2019/12/18/christmas-fun-with-our-senior-dog/
My dogs won’t sleep in my bed. How I wish they would. Leo will jump up on the bed on his own time, especially if the heatie blanket is turned on, but if I lie down next to him and bug him too m...
*Alternate headline: When your geriatric dog has fewer health problems than your younger dog.** **Then again, Leo is 9, so technically he is a senior dog too. Last week, I marveled to myself that...
https://karineumeyer.com/2019/09/11/when-your-difficult-dog-becomes-your-easy-dog/
I spent a lot of time in the summer of 2018 with my dogs in the backyard, reading during the day and looking at the stars at night. I even blogged about it, so I would remember it a year from the...
https://karineumeyer.com/2019/09/10/planning-now-for-her-sweet-16/
Leo recovered from his November 2017 TPLO surgery like a champ. At his eight-week X-rays, we learned that his fibula had broken during his recovery, but had already been healing for a few weeks, ...
https://karineumeyer.com/2019/01/01/year-in-review-part-2-leo/