Seattle Animal Shelter


I've started doing volunteer work at the Seattle Animal Shelter. I'm in the vet support group. I'm doing laundry, which is fine by me. Every hour I do laundry is an hour that a veterinary professional can do more important things. It's dangerous work because I want to adopt all of them!

Saying goodbye to a beloved pet


Faith has inoperable cancer. We adopted her seven years ago when she was five. A few days ago, we notice her tummy was distended and she was hiding a lot. After much testing, the diagnosis is a baseball-size mass in her torso that’s not treatable. We guess it’s been growing for weeks. Cats are good … Continue reading Saying goodbye to a beloved pet

Tanner doesn’t like peas


We fed the kitties a cat food "stew" flavor this morning. Tanner ate around all of his peas. He doesn't like them. At all.

Cat on squirrel patrol


Between our neighbors and us is a lattice fence. It runs from one end of the property line to the other. We've nicknamed it, "The Squirrel Superhighway." One of our windows is perfectly positioned for the constant monitoring of this critical boundary.