Monthly Archives: September 2008

Weekends go to the dogs

Jackson County Animal Care and Control is holding a “Bow Wow Bash” from noon till 3 p.m., Sunday, Sept. 28 at the Medford Oaks RV Park. Bring your dog and head on down to the park, located at 7049 Highway 140, Eagle Point.  Details are a bit sketchy as of this posting (2 p.m., 9/25) [...]

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Reduced-cost rabies shots

Did you see our update Thursday morning about the little Josephine County boy who was bit by a rabid bat?  When I read the brief, it reminded me that kids and critters are an awful lot alike. Of course the 6-year-old boy wanted to check out the fuzzy little bat that had so conveniently plopped into his world. [...]

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Another one bites the gravel

I woke up to a sad surprise this weekend. Fat Louis was floating at the top of the Tank of a Thousand Horrors. He was fine when I went off to bed Friday night. Definitely fat, seemingly happy and greedily gobbling up his midnight feeding of fish flakes. But when I got up the next morning, he [...]

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Someone get that dog a snooze-buster

My aged border collie, Twirley Jane, is working my last sleep-deprived nerve. Like a lot of oldsters, Ms. Jane has taken to taking more and more naps during the day. Not the cat naps of her youth where she’d lay down and doze. This is serious snoozing. Her loud snoring, tip of the tongue slipping out of the mouth, dead-to-the-world kinda [...]

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    Sanne Specht

    Sanne Specht is the Mail Tribune's courts and social services reporter by day, and companion to her five mutant goldfish, two rowdy parrots and a pushy cat by night. And sometimes vice versa. Read about the finned, feathered and furred in the Rogue ... Read Full
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